$40 CXXIXa. TAXACEH (Stapf). [ Podocarpus. 
Receptacle 0; the axis of the mature cone form- 
ing a slightly thickened stalk bearing the seed. 
Seed up to over 1 in. long ; woody inner layer of seed- 
shell 2-33 lin. thick. 
Seed globose or ellipsoid-globose ... wes a 2. P. usambarensis. 
bo 
Seed attenuated at the base, subpyriform. 
Leaves, including those of the fruiting branch- 
lets, up to 6 in. by 5 lin. 50K ace . P. Manni. 
Leaves up to 1-14 in. by 13-2} lin. ... oes 4 Pe Dawes: 
oo 
Seed up to ? in. long ; woody inner layer of seed- 
shell 4-1 lin. thick. 
Leaves of the fruiting branches 1-24 in. by 1{- 
1} lin. 56C 4 5. P. gracilior. 
Leaves of the fruiting branches {-1 in. by }- : 
% lin. sac 400 anc es Sac .. 6. P. gracillimus. 
1. P. milanjianus, Rendle in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2. iv. (1894) 
61. A shrub or tree up to 100 ft. high ; branchlets terete, slightly 
grooved ; terminal buds ovoid-globose, up to 2 lin. long. Leaves 
spirally arranged, crowded, particularly upwards, linear, acute, 
attenuated at the base into a short petiole, straight or slightly 
falcate, spreading, 2-4 in. by 4—5 lin. or in the juvenile state up to 
6 in. by 7 lin., coriaceous, midrib slightly raised on both sides, very 
fine on the upper. Male cones solitary or in pairs, cylindric, up to 
1 in. by 2-23 lin., with a few rotundate-ovate subcoriaceous bracts 
up to 14 lin. long, at the base ; scales loosely imbricate, up to 1} lin. 
long, blade rotundate-ovate, denticulate, about } lin. long ; pollen- 
sacs almost 1 lin. long. Female cones borne on peduncles 3-6 lin. long 
and formed of 2 decussate pairs of scales fused into a fleshy recep- 
tacle, one barren, slightly shorter, with or without small ovate or 
triangular tips, the other fertile with short free rims or small roundish 
blades embracing the base of the ovule, the whole receptacle obconic 
and more or less 2-lobed or when quite mature obovoid-globose to 
globose and bright red, covered with a bluish bloom, 4-5 lin. long ; 
sometimes only 1 scale fertile and then the receptacle more or less 
oblique. Seed subglobose, about 5-6 lin. long ; inner layer of seed- 
shell thin crustaceous, outer coriaceous or hard-fleshy, resinous, 
slightly pruinose.—Rendle in-Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xxxvii. 226 and 
xl. 235; Dawe in Kew Bulletin, 1907, 22; Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot- 
xxxvii. 534, 538; Pilger, Taxac. in Engl. Pflanzenreich, iv. v. 92 (f: 
arborescens and {. typica); Mildbraed, Wiss. Ergebn. Zentr.-Aft. 
Exped. 1907-8, ii. 40 ; Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. 8. Afr. v. 292. P. 
Manni, Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 92, t. i. fig. A ; not of Hook. f. P. sp. 
aff. Manni, Schweinf. in Héhnel, Discov. Lakes Rudolf & Stefanie, 
ii, 354; Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xxx. 379, 434; Engl. in 
Sitzungb. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1899, 208; not of Hook. f. 
P. latifolia, Engl. 1.c. 1902, 230, 232; not of Wall. nor of R. Br. 
P. Thunbergit, Engl. Jahrb. xxx. (1901), 266; not of Hook. 
