Podocarpus.| CXXIXa, TAXACER (Stapf). 343 
long ; scales about 1 lin. long, their blades broadly ovate-triangular, 
acute, 3 lin. long. Female cones sessile at the ends of short leafy 
branchlets ; their axis 1-2 lin. long, with or without 1 or rarely 2 
small broad ovate spreading or recurved barren scales, ultimately 
slightly thickened ; fertile scales like the preceding. Ovul® obovoid- 
oblong, 14-2 lin. long, bluish-pruinose. Seed ellipsoid-globose, 
rounded or slightly attenuated at the base, 8-9 lin. long, 7-8 lin. 
across, purplish-brown and slightly bluish-pruinose; inner layer 
of seed-shell very hard, woody, up to 1 lin. thick, outer coriaceous 
about as thick as the inner or slightly thicker, resinous inwards.— 
Engl. Pflanzenwelt Afr. iv. v. 86, fig. 81, and Veget. Harar und 
Gallahochl. 11 (sphalm. P. gracilis). P. elongata, A. Rich. Tent. 
Fl. Abyss. ii. 278; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 109; Pf. Ost- 
Afr, C, 92. t. i. fig. B (not C-G); Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 
xxl, 404 (as forma ?); Hutchins, Forests of Kenia in Col. Rep. 
Miscell. no. 41, 17 ; not of L’Hérit. P. falcata, Engl. in Hochgebirgsfl. 
Trop. Afr. l.c., and Veget. Usambara, 68; not of R. Br. Taaus 
elongata, Roth in Harris, High!. Aeth. 11. 408; not of Ait. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Shire, Quartin Dillon & Petit, 105! Gerra Abuna 
’ Tekla Zlaimanot, Schimper, 1160! Shoa; Ankober, Roth! Arussi Galla ; 
Djata, 6200-8500 ft., Ellenbeck, 1344, 1350, 1428; Geru Abas, Drake-Brock- 
man, 244! W. Sidamo, Drake-Brockman, 205! between Surro and Rogono, 
Riva, 194. Southern Abyssinia, without precise locality, Stordy! Uganda: 
Nandi, Johnston! Eldama Ravine, 7600 ft., Johnston! Whyte! Mau, 6000- 
8000 ft., Scott Elliot, 6959! British East Africa: Leikipia, 6000-8000 ft., 
Thomson, 399 ! at the foot of the Aberdare range, 5300-6900 ft., Hihnel. Kenia, 
Hutchins, 400 ! 
6. P. gracillimus, Stapf A tree of great height (a mammoth tree, 
Nelson) with slender branchlets. Vegetative buds up to 1 lin. long. 
Leaves densely crowded at the end of the branches and branchlets, 
sessile, linear, about equally and slightly attenuated at both ends, 
acute, straight or slightly falcate, up to 10 lin. by }~-? lin., coriaceous, 
midrib obscure on both sides, particularly above. Male and female 
cones unknown. Seeds (immature) globose, about 5 lin. in diam., 
supported by the moderately stout axis of the cone which is about 
14 lin. long and bears scars of 1 or 2 (2) barren scales and the fertile 
scale which is ovate-triangular, } lin. long, and closely appressed to 
the seed. 
Mozamb. Distr. North Transvaal: Houtboschberg, Nelson, 423! 
Imperfectly known species. 
P. veros. latifolius, R. Br.: Mildbraed Wiss. Ergebn. Zentr.-Afy. 
Exped. ii. 40. 
Mildbraed states that he saw in the Schampf Valley of the Rugege Forest, 
Ruanda, a tree of considerable height and broad-pyramidal habit with almost 
