Podocarpus. | CXXIXa. TAXACER (Stapf). 341 
Nile Land. Uganda: Ruwenzori, 8500 ft., Stuhlmann. 2360 (arborescent) : 
10,500 ft., Stuhlmann, 2393, 2432 (frutescent) ; 8-11,000 ft., Dawe, 547! (arbor- 
escent); 9000 ft., Scott Elliot, 8003 ! (arborescent) ; 7500-10,000 ft., Doggett ! 
(arborescent). Butagu Valley, 9850-10,800 ft., Mildbraed, 2456. Ninagongo, 
9500 ft., rare, Mildbraed. 1335. Buddu; littoral belt, 3750-4000 ft., Dawe, 
273! 969! Musozi; mouth of Kagere river, lake shore, Bagshawe, 125. British 
East Africa: Kikuyu, 7500 ft., Whyte! up to 11,000 ft., Hutchins! Muzhen- 
gira, Elliot, 251! 255! Leikipia plateau and western base of Kenia, 6550 ft., 
Hthnel. Kenia, 8000-9000 ft., Gregory! (arborescent). 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Kirunga Volcano, Kédssner, 3202! 
Kilimanjaro, southern slopes, 4250-6550 ft., HUhnel, 174. Marangu, 7200- 
8200 ft., Volkens, 814 (arborescent) ; above Kiboscho, 9500 ft., Volkens, 1524 ; 
by the Kifinika, 7900-9500 ft., Volkens, 1894 (arborescent). Usambara ; between 
Kwai and Gare, 5250 ft., Hngler, 2232 (arborescent) ; Magamba above Kwai, 
8850 ft., Engler ; Holst, 3863. Uluguru; Lukwangulu, 7200-8200 ft., Stuhl- 
mann, 9179, 9212. Uhehe; Utschumgwe Mountains, 6550 ft., Gétze, 584 (frute- 
scent). Rungwe Mountains, Stolz, 373! (arborescent). Kinga Mountains ; 
Kipengere ridge, 8200 ft., Gutze, 986. 
Mozamb. Distr. Nyasaland: Mlanji, Whyte ! 6400 ft., Brown! Mwanemba, 
7800 ft., McClounie, 171! Nyika plateau, 6000-7000 ft., Whyte! Mount 
Malosa, 4000-6000 ft., Whyte! between lakes Shirwa and Chinta, 2500 ft., 
Cunningham | without precise locality, Buchanan, 949! Gazaland: Chimani- 
mani Mountains, 7000 ft., Swynnerton, 1962! Mount Pene, 7000 ft., Swyn- 
nerton, 6038 ! (arborescent). 
A valuable timber tree (Dawe), Although usually of moderate size, it 
attains in places to a height of 100 ft., as in Usambara and on Mt. Kenia 
(Gregory). Dawe saw trees 70 ft. high on Ruwenzori. 
2. P. usambarensis, Pilger, Taxac. in Engl. Pflanzenreich, iv. v. 
70. A tall tree, up to over 250 ft. high ; branchlets slender, scattered 
or subopposite or subverticillate, spreading, loosely disposed in 
young, more crowded in old specimens. Vegetative buds very small, 
obtuse. Leaves linear, long-tapering to a sharp point, shortly 
attenuated at the base into a very short petiole, straight or sub- 
falcate, about 3 in. by 24 lin., rarely broader (up to 34 lin.) and thinly 
coriaceous in young trees, much shorter and much more coriaceous 
in adult specimens; midrib very obscure above, slightly raised 
beneath. Male cones unknown. Female cones only known in the 
mature state. Seed solitary on slender peduncles, 7-10 lin. long 
and marked with the scars of the fallen scales, globose to subglobose, 
about 1 in. long ; inner layer of seed-shell very hard, woody, up to 
34 lin. thick, outer coriaceous, resinous inwards.—Pilger in Mild- 
braed, Wiss. Ergebn. Zentr.-Afr. Exped. 1907-8, ii. 41. P. falcata, 
Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 92, t. ii. figs. A. F. and G.; not of R. Br. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usambara; Mbalu, Heboma, in 
mountain meadows, Holst, 2548; Mlalo, 5250 ft., Engler, 1444; Para Moun- 
tains, Mtai, in forests, Holst, 2467 ! Kwai, in virgin forest from 5000 ft. upwards, 
Hich, 17; between Kwai and Gare, 5250-5900 ft., Engler, 2229; Mogamba 
forest, the prevailing tree, Holst, 3816 ; Mkussu forest, Busse, 363. Ruanda ; 
Rugege forest, 6200 ft., Mildbraed, 1035; Bugoier forest. 8200 ft., Mildbraed, 
1473, Karagwe; Bukoba, Mildbraed, 124. 
3. P. Mannii, Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vii. 218. A tree 
30-50 ft. high ; branchlets loosely disposed or in adult trees crowded 
