648 CXLIV. CONIFERÆ. (J. D. Hooker.) [Cephalotazus. 
globose, peduncle scaly; anthers about 12, mucronate. Fem. cones 3—4, on b eid 
mon peduncle, pedicelled ; bracts adnate, ovate, obtuse. Seed 14 in. long, obovoid- 
oblong, mucronate, narrowed at the base. 
2. C. Griffithii, Hook. f.; leaves linear acuminate falcate white 
beneath, base rounded. 
UPPER AssaM; Mishmi Hills, alt. 6000 ft., Griffith (Kew Distrib. 5000). 
Munniporr, Watt. . n-—I 
Very similar ina dried state to C. Mannii, but the leaves are white beneat m 
have seen no fruit. The plant has long been cultivated at Kew, having been sen 
from the Calcutta Botanical Garden by Dr. Thomson, 
4. TAXUS, Tournef. 
Evergreen diœcious (rarely moncecious) trees or shrubs with very tough 
wood. Leaves bifarious, linear, obtuse acute or acuminate, l-nerved. Ma eJ 
a pedicelled whorl of 3-8 anther-cells on a peltate scale. Fem. fl. à DE - 
erect orthotropous ovule, terminating a short peduncle clothed with p 4 
cating scales, and seated on a thick scale that enlarges as 8 cick 
red cup. Seed ovoid, subcompressed, testa hard; cotyledons 2, ra m 
superior.— Species one, variable; or several differing only in foliage, 
N. temperate. 
T. baccata, Linn. Sp. Pl. 1040; leaves more or less falcate acute 
or acuminate, paler enehi, Endl. Conif. 242; Parlat. in DC. Prode. 
xvi. ii. 500; Wall. Cat. 6055; Brand. For. Fl. 539; Gamble Man. tme 
Timb. 413; Boiss. Fl. Orient. v. 711. T. nucifera, Wall. Tent. Fl. 2 
44, t. 57 (excl. syn.); Cat. 6054 (not of Kempfer). T. virgata, Wall. an 
T. Wallichiana, Zucc. in Abhandl. Bayr. Akad. Classe Math. Phys 0. 
803, t. 5; Endl. l. c. 244. T. orientalis, Bertoloni Mise. xxii. l7, 536; 
T. nepalensis, Jacquem. mss. T. contorta, Griff. Itin. Notes 351, No. 9995 
Notul. iv. 198; Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 376. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 6-11,000 ft. Knasta Hrirrs, alt. 5000 ft. UPPER 
Burma.—Disrris, N. and Temperate E. Asia, all Europe, N. Africa, N. Ae inches 
A tree, in the Himalaya attaining 100 ft., and 20 in girth of trunk ; m in. 
spreading ; bark thin, flaking, Leaves 3-11 in., dark green, coriaceous. Prt — 
long, ovoid; cup mucilaginous, sometimes concealing the olive-green 8^5 
. ae b 
Bertoloni's T. orientalis is a narrow long-leaved form from Sikkim, collected by 
myself, 
+. DACRYDIUM, Soland. 
Evergreen dicecious trees or shrubs. Leaves either scale-like, ant 
4-fariously imbricate, or distichous scattered and subulate, both f the 
sometimes on the same branch. Male fl. small, sessile, at the tips lobose, 
branches; anthers spirally crowded on a short stipes; cells 2, es ike- 
deflexed, connective with an apical claw. Fem. fl. in small lax d ex 
like cone; ovuliferous scale free, concave or cup-shaped, ut leng 
ceeding the bract; ovule 1, erect or oblique. Seed small, ovos triate; 
longer than the cup-shaped enlarged ovuliferous scale; testa hard, $ 
i an 
abumen not ruminate.— Species about 12, Malayan, Australasian 
acific. 
the 
D. elatum, Wall. Cat. 6045; leaves of two forms, some 0? 
