Dacrydium.] CXLIV. CONIFERÆ. (J. D. Hooker.) 649 
barren branchlets acicular 4-angled subpungent, those on the fruiting 
branchlets small closely imbricate ovate-oblong obtuse or mucronate, 
male spikes cylindric. Endl. Conif. 996; Parlat. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 
494; Kurz For. FL ii. 499; Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. i. (1843) 144, t. 9 ; 
Blume Rumph. iii. 221, t. 172; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 1075. Juniperus 
elata, Rows. FI. Ind. iii. S38. J. Phillippsiana & rigida, Wall. mss. 
TENASSERIM ? Kurz. PENANG, Wallich? MALACCA; on Mount Ophir, @rifith, 
Lobb, SINGAPORE, Schomburgk.—MD1sTkRIB. Sumatra, Borneo, Cambodia. 
A lofty pyramidal tree with spreading branches and weeping branchlets. Barren 
branchlets in brush-like clusters, }—} in. diam., densely clothed with erect subulate 
or acicular shining subulate or acicular deeply-grooved shiny leaves, 3-3 in. long; 
fertile branchlets very slender, terete, clothed with minute imbricating triangular- 
ovate obtuse leaves zo in. long; branchlets with leaves of all sizes and forms between 
these extremes occur. Seeds scattered on the sides of the fertile branchlets, 4 in. 
long, ovoid, obliquely seated on the shallow cup-like scale. 
6. PODOCARPUS, L Herit. 
Evergreen, moncecions or dioecious trees or shurbs. Leaves opposite or 
alternate, scattered and linear or distichous, or broad and oblong with a 
midrib or with parallel nerves, or of two forms on the same branch some 
scale-like and imbricate, others distichous linear or subulate. Male ji. 
solitary, fascicled or spicate, with imbricate bracts; anthers sessile, spirally 
crowded; cells 2 parallel, slits extrorse or lateral; connective with an 
apical claw or appendage. Fem. fl. solitary or few and spicate; bract 
orming a peduncle to the also fieshy ovuliferous scale; ovule adnate to 
the scale, reflexed. Seed small, globose or ovoid, seated on an enlarged 
fleshy peduncle (scale and bract); testa hard, often fleshy without; albumen 
fleshy ; cotyledons 2.—Species about 40, tropical and S. temperate. 
The ‘P. chinensis, Wall. Cat. 6057, from the Caleutta Garden, is referred by 
Dax imoviez (Diagn. viii. 562) to a variety (B. chinensis) of the P. macrophylla, 
l. P. latifolia, Wall. Pl. As. Rar. i. 26, t. 30; Cat. 6050; leaves 
opposite and subopposite oblong to lanceolate acute or acuminate ecostate 
many-nerved. Endl. Conif. 208; Parlat. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 508; 
Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 414; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. t. 257; Hook. Lond. 
Journ. Bot. i. (185) 658, t. 23; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. ii. 1071. P. agathifolia. 
lume Rumph. iii, 217, t. 173. Nageia latifolia, Gord. Pinet. 138; Kurz 
For, Fl. ii. 500. ? 
The Kuasta Mrs., alt, 3000 ft. Hill forests of Burma and the MALAY 
TENINSULA, Sour DECCAN; Tinnevelly, alt. 3-5000 ft., Beddome.— DISTRIB. 
; jn evergreen glabrous tree, attaining 80 ft., with aromatic wood. Leaves 4—7 by 
peti m., very coriaceous, acute at both ends; nerves very many, close and slender; 
pe tole 0-4 in. Mule spikes } in. long, 2-5 together, sessile or on a ehort peduncle ; 
bluet ovate, acuminate, denticulate, Seeds solitary, subglobose, 4 i» diam 
loranthifojia 6 on a cylindric fleshy scaly peduncle.—Foliage or Agathes 
. 2. P. neriifolia, Don i» Lamb. Pin. Ed.1,129, Ed. 3, 74; leaves 
mattered linear or linear-lanceolate obtuse acute or acuminate l-nerved. 
Brag, Conif. 215; Parlat. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 514; Brand. For. FI. 541; 
own in Benn. Fl. Jav. 40 ; Flor. des Serres, viii. 49, t. 768. P. bracteata, 
