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C A S U A R I N A S T R I c T A.
Upright Cafuarina.
C L A S S XXL ORDER L
MONOECIA MONANDRIJ. Chives and Poiatal leparate. One Chive.
G E N E R I C
* Maiculi flares.
CALYX. Anicntuni filiforme, imbricatum, fqiiamis
miniitis, unifloris.
COROLLA. Squamulae bipartitae ovatse, minutoe.
STAMINA. Filaraentum unicum, capillare, fquama
amenli longius. Aiulu'ra didyma.
* Femitini fl-ores in eaciem arbore.
CALYX. Amentum ovato-cylindricum; fquamis
ovatis, aciitis, carinatis, cilialis.
COROLLA nulla.
PiSTiLLUM. Germen minutum. Stylus filiformis,
longus, exfertus, bifidus. Stigmata duo.
PEKICARPIUM. Strobilus fquamis bivalvibus,
perpendiculariier dehiicentibus.
SEMINA folitaria, conica, margine membranacea.
S P E C I F I C
Cafuarina dioica ramulellis ereftis; ftrobilorum
I'quamis inerniibus; vaginis mafculis niultifidis,
glabris.
C H A f i A C T E E .
* 3Ia!e flowers.
EMPALEMENT. Catkin tliread-lliape, tiled with
fmall one-fiovvered fcales.
BLOSSOM. Scales two-parted, ovate, minute.
CHIVES. Thread one, hair-like, longer than
the I'cale of the catkin. Tip double.
* Female flowers on the fame plant.
EMPALEMENT. Catkin ovaie-cylindric, with
egg lliaped, acute, keeled, tiled fcales.
BLOSSOM none.
POINTAL. Seed-bud minute. Shaft thread-
(h.aped, long, without, two-cleft. Summits
two.
SEED VESSEL. Cone with two-valved fcales^
f p l i t i i ng perpendicularly.
SEEDS folitary, conical, wi t h a Ikinny edge.
C H A R A C T E R .
Cafuarina wi t h chives and pointals diftinft, and
upright branchletsj fcales of the cones
naked, male flieaths many-parted, fmooth.
R E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
1. The Catkin, or termii.al part of a male branchlet, magnified flightly.
2. 'Ihe Shaft and Summit ot a female floret.
3. 1 he Cone, whilft yet in flower.
4 . I h e fame magnified.
THE Cafuarina ftrifta is a nat ive of New South Wales, and was introduced, byMelTrs. Kennedy and
Lee, in ihe year l//.""). It i^^ a hardy green-houfe plant, grows to the height of ten or twelve feet
before it flowers, w hirh is in November. It is perfeélly dioicous ; llie male and female bloflbm.s,
never coming on ihe fmie plani, and either have litile o recommend them for beauty ; their Angularity
is what Ihould fooner attract our notice. The two fiiures, on the plate, which are the male
and female, were taken from two plant-, in flower, at the fame time, in the culledioii o the Dowager»
L.idy de Clifford, Paddington. All the fpecies, hitherto difcovercd, fince the firfl;, upon which the
genus was formed, the C. equifetifoli a has, like this, the male and female parts of fructification on
different p lant s j that only, being raouoicous, or wi t h the male and female parts on the fame plant.
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