338 CXXIX. PINACEH (Stapf). | Juniperus. 
brandt, Uganda: Mau Escarpment, 6000-8000 ft., Scott Elliot, 6789! Mau 
Plateau, Whyte! Nandi, 7000-8000 ft., Scott Elliot, 6976! Eldama Ravine, 
7600 ft., Whyte! Nairwasha, 7000 ft., Scott Elliot, 7043!  Kedong Escarp- 
ment, Sclater. British East Africa: Leikipia, 6000-8000 ft., forming forests 
at 8000 ft., Z’homson! foot of Aberdare Range, Héhnel, 56, 115; Kikuyu, 
Whyte! Mount Kenia, Hihnel, 46, 50, 51; Hutchins! and without precise 
locality, Scott Elliot, 307! Powell! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usambara ; Mbalu, up to 6000 ft., 
forming extensive forests, Mlalo, Holst, 3779! Heboma, Holst, 2597! without 
precise locality, Buchwald, 449! Kilimanjaro above Uesri, 6600 ft., Volkens ! 
Mawenzi summit, 8600 ft., Volkens. Schira, 10,000 ft., Volkens. Kinga 
Mountains; Kipengere ridge, 8200 ft., Goetze. Nyasaland: Nyika plateau, 
11° 15’S. lat., 33° 40’ E. long., Major Pearce ! 
Also indicated from Yemen, Jebel Sabor above Taiz (Botta). 
A very valuable timber tree (see Hutchins, l.¢.). Vernacular names : Ssahadi 
(igre); Mutarakwe (Kikuyu) ; Ol-Daragwe (Masai) ; Detyib (Somali). 
The Somaliland specimens have been included here with some reluctance. 
The only adult samples seen by me are some branches of a female tree collected 
by Drake-Brockman with a few strobiles in the pollination stage and a few 
galbules. The branchlets are stouter than in the remainder of the material 
examined which is remarkably uniform although it is derived from localities 
spread over an enormous area, and when the scale-leaves are more appressed and 
less convex they approach frequently the more or less cylindric shape (with 
straight contours) of the branchlets of J. polycarpos, C. Koch (J. macropoda, 
Boiss. ; see Medwedeff, Trees and Shrubs Caucas. 41, with plate) ; finally the 
galbules are rather larger than in typical J. procera. The trees are described 
as tall (Phillips) and certainly appear so in Drake-Brockman’s photograph, 
but the habit is different from that described as characteristic of J. procera, the 
branching beginning low down, as is usual in J/. polycarpos, and forming a wide 
crown. ‘The nearest locality where J. polycarpos occurs is Jebel Akbar above 
Maskat whence it ranges to Asia Minor, the Eastern Caucasus, Turkestan and the 
Himalayas, 
Orper CXXIXa. TAXACEZ. 
(By O. Srapr.) 
_ Dicecious, very rarely moncecious. Male cones mostly catkin- 
like, sometimes externally only slightly differentiated from the 
vegetative branches, simple or compound, terminal , or axillary, 
solitary or fascicled, bracteate or ebracteate at the base; fertile 
scales bearing basi-dorsally 2-8 pollen-sacs, squamiform or more OF 
less differentiated into a claw or stalk and blade, the latter large and 
projecting beyond the pollen-sacs or transverse to the stalk (peltate) 
or very much reduced, when the scales with their pollen-sacs assume 
the appearance of typical angiospermous stamens ; pollen-grains with 
or without vesicular appendages. Female cones usually much reduced, 
terminal or axillary; lower scales barren, the upper or only the 
uppermost fertile, always simple, each bearing 1 (very rarely 2) ovule, 
