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have been produced on some of these plants, and which are placed 

 on deflexed stalks aboub half an inch long, rather shorter than 

 the ovoid fawn-coloured fleshy seeds. Fortune, on his second 

 visit to China, ascertained that this plant was quite distinct from 

 C. Fortunei\ and, on bis authority, C. pedttnciilata is cited as 

 a Chinese plant, though there are no specimens from that country 



Fig. 27. 



Seed-bearing shoot of Cephalotaxus pedunculata. Drupe-like seeds, oUve- 



coloured. Cultivated. 



in the herbarium (see Fortune in Gard. Chron. Nov. 28, 1S63, 

 p. 1134). It is supposed that the flowers of a female plant 

 of this species which bore seed iu Messrs. Paul's Nursery at 

 Cheshunt might have been fertilized by the pollen of the Yew ; 



unfortunately 



sown 



In the garden of the Eev. J. Goring, of Steyning, Sussex, is a 



