650 CXLIV. CONIFERE. (J.D. Hooker) [Podocarpus. 
Blume Enum. i. 881 ; Rumph. iii. 214, t. 172, f. 13; Parlat. l. c. 515; Gamble 
Man. Ind. Timb. 414. P. polystachya, Brown l. c. 40 ; Parlat. Ll. c. 51 E 
Endl. l. c. P. macrophylla, Wall. Cat. 6052. Nageia bracteata, Kurz 
For. Fl. ii. 501. 
TROPICAL HIMALAYA ; Nepal, Wallich; Sikkim, alt. 3000 ft., 7. D. H. KHasta 
HILLS and forests of Burma, the MALAY PENINSULA and ANDAMAN ISLANDS.— 
DISTRIB. Java, Sumatra, Borneo. . . . — 
A glabrous evergreen tree. Leaves 4-8 in. (in saplings to 8 in.), corinceons 
straight or faleate, base narrowed, midrib prominent on both surfaces ; petiole 3-3 by 
Male spikes 1 in., solitary or clustered, sessile, cylindric, surrounded at the base y 
broad acute keeled bracts. Seeds solitary, globose, i-3 in. diam., seated on a 
oblong fleshy peduncle. 
3. P. cupressina, Br. ex Mirb. in Mem. Mus. xiii. 75, and in Benn. 
FI. Jav. 35, t. 10; leaves on older branches minute quadrifarious mE ae 
mucronate keeled, on the younger distichous spreading linear and fa en 
or compressed and tetragonous. Endl. Conif. 222; Blume Rumph. P. 
218, t. 172, f. 2, and 172 B, f. 2. P. imbricata, Blume Enum. 89. f. 
Horsfieldii, Wall. Cat. 6049. . 
UrPrR Burma; at Bhamo, Griffith. Matacca; on Keddah Peak, Griffith. 
PENANG, Wallich, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1501).—Di8TRIB. Malay Islands. Nn 
A lofty tree.  Branchlets of 3 forms; (1) short, flat, feather-like, 1-2 1h. e E 
with a slender rachis and close-set distichous horizontally-spreading linear fa ath 
acuminate shiny leaves j-3 in. long; (2) terete, filiform branchlets, clothed veh. 
minute imbricate ovate acute leaves j^; in. long ; (3) stouter, terete, fruiting 7^ hort 
lets with subulate leaves j;-] in. long. Seeds globose, } in. diam., on $ 
decurved lateral branchlets. 
7. AGA THIS, Salisb. 
Evergreen monoecious or dicecious trees. Leaves coriaceous, broad, 
nerves parallel. Male f. solitary, peduncled; peduncle clothed, M io 
decussate imbricate scales; anthers densely spirally crowded in a cylin n 
or oblong column; cells 5 or more, pendulous from the top of a rigid stipes; 
slits introrse ; connective with an apical inflexed claw. Fem. cone ove 
or globose; scales closely spirally imbricate, tips broad ; ovuliferous Ieri 
thin and confluent with the scale ; ovules 1, rarely 2, reversed and a un 
to the seale. Ripe cone globose or oblong; scales hard, broad, persistent. 
Seed 1 on one side of the scale (rarely 2 perfect), reversed, compresse® 
ovate or oblong, testa thin winged; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons 
Species about 6, Malayan, Australasian and Polynesian. 
A. loranthifolia, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. viii. 312, t. 155 MM 
petioled subopposite or alternate oblong-lanceolate to linear-lanoeo i 
obtuse, anther-cells with an orbicular cuneate claw, fem. cones subglo M^ 
scales rounded, wing of seed horizontal. Wall. Cat. 6057; Blume En a, 
Fl. Jav. 90. A. Dammara, Rich. Conif. 83, t. 19. Dammar? ^ D. 
Rumph. Herb. Amb. ii. 174, t. 57; Parlat. in DC. Prodr. xvi. n. 374. xii 
orientalis, Lamb. Pin. Ed. 2, ii. 97, t. 54; Endl. Conif. 189. D. Rump 
Presl. Epimel. 936. Abies Dammara, Poiret. Dict. v. 39. s 
PzxaxG, Wallich, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1500 ft.). Perak; at Larut, Lot 
DısTRIB. Malay Islands, Leaves 
A lofty resiniferous tree, with a pyramidal crown and whorled branches. ry like 
3—7 in., usually opposite, very coriaceous, obtuse, acute, or tip rounded, ve t "x 
those of Podocarpus latifolia, ecostate, very many-nerved. Male cones j 
