342 OXXIXa. TAXACE® (Stapf). [ Podocarpus. 
upwards and short. Leaves sessile, linear, gently tapering to an 
acute point, shortly attenuated at the base, straight or more or less 
falcate, up to 6 in. by 5 lin., or in the flowering region sometimes only 
3 in. by 24 lin., coriaceous (particularly when short), midrib very 
slender, faint above, more conspicuous beneath. Male cones axillary. 
solitary or in pairs, sessile. with a few rounded bracts, 3 lin. long at 
the base, cylindric, up to 1 in. long; scale-blades broad-triangular, 
shorter than the pollen-sacs. Female cones only known in the 
mature state, sessile at the ends of short few-leaved branchlets. Seed 
solitary, borne on the slightly thickened axis of the cone ; axis about 
2 lin. long, with 2 or 1 persistent ovate-lanceolate recurved scales ; 
seed pyriform, up to almost 13 in. long, chestnut-brown, shining ; 
inner layer of seed-shell hard, woody, up to 2 lin. thick, outer 
hard coriaceous, slightly thinnér.—Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
Bot. xxi. 395; Henriques in Bolet. Soc. Brot. v. 216: Nobre, l.c. 
Wi, 110. 4. 1-3. 
. Lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, from 4750 to the summit of the Peak, 
7025 ft., Mann, 1065! Moller ! 
4. P. Dawei, Stapf. A tree up to 100 ft. high with a long clear 
bole, branched from near the to p: branchlets of the flowering region 
crowded, short. Vegetative buds 1-14 lin. long. Leaves crowded 
upwards, sessile, linear, acute or subacute, shortly attenuated at the 
base, 1-1} in. by 13-2 lin., coriaceous, firm, midrib very obscure 
above, slightly raised beneath. Male cones unknown. Female cones 
only known in the mature state, terminal on short bracteate branch- 
lets ; bracts small, ovate, recurved, resembling the scales of the cone ; 
axis of cone slightly thickened, 2~24 lin. long ; scales about 2, broad 
ovate, spreading or recurved, 1 lin. long. Seed subglobose, very 
shortly attenuated at the base, dark brown, slightly pruinose, 10-11 
lin. long, about 8 lin. in diam. ; inner layer of seed-shell hard-woody, 
light coloured, 13 lin. thick, outer also woody, but chestnut-brown. 
ae vs Land. Uganda: South Buddu, near the Kagera River, 4000 ft., Dawe, 
5. P. gracilior, Pilger, Tazxac. in Engl. Pflanzenreich, iv. v.71. A 
tree 30 to over 60 ft. high ; branchlets crowded upwards in the old 
trees, scattered or subverticillate, angular from the decurrent leaf- 
bases. Vegetative buds obtuse, } lin, long. Leaves scattered, 
crowded on the short branchlets, linear, long and gently tapering 
to a sharp point, shortly contracted at the base, up to 4 in. by 3 lin. 
in young plants and on long shoots, mostly much shorter, 1-2 in. 
by 1}-2 lin., coriaceous, midrib obscure above, very slender and 
slightly raised beneath. Male cones subsessile, subtended by a few 
small broad roundish bracts, axillary, solitary or in pairs or threes, 
Straight or flexuous, mostly up to 9 lin., occasionally over | in. 
