—" 
Tas. 4655. 
PODOCARPUS wnerurotia. 
Oleander-leaved Podocarpus. 
Nat. Ord. TAXINE#.—DIecra POLYANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. Flores dioici, v. rarius monoici. Amenta mascula cylindrica; sti- 
pitibus antherarum lobos polliniferos duos marginales extrorsum dehiscentes 
gerentibus. lores feminei subsolitarii (in spica abbreviata), v. rarius laxe 
spicati; sguamula fructifera teste seminis inversi omnino adnata. Fructus 
drupaceus, subglobosus.—Arbores v. arbuscule plerumque procere, lignum durum 
et utilem prabentes. Folia vel sparsa, linearia, nervo medio donata ; vel quinque- 
Jariam imbricata aut distiche patentia enervia ; vel opposita, ovata, nervo medio 
destituta. Testa integra membranam internam seminis ad maturitatem usque 
_ tegens. Br. 
Popocarrus zerijfolia ; foliis sparsis lanceolatis acutis uninerviis coriaceis mar- 
gine paulum revolutis, amentis staminigeris elongatis axillaribus solitariis 
basi involucrato-bracteatis, pedunculis feemineis axillaribus subunifloris lon- 
gitudine receptaculi oblongi superne oblique lobati basi bractea subulata 
uncinata suffulti. 
Popocarpus nereifolia. Don in Lamb. Pin. ed. 1. v. 2. p. 21. Brown in Horsf. 
Jav. p. 40. Endl. Conif. p. 215. 
Popocarpus macrophylla. Wall. Cat. n. 6052 4. 
With us this forms a good-sized greenhouse shrub or small 
tree, with very copious dense evergeen foliage, and in a state of 
fruit really handsome from the copious purple-red fleshy recep- 
tacles of the seed, which are produced in the winter months. 
The species is a native of Nepal, and was many years ago 
introduced to the Royal Gardens by Dr. Wallich. It appears to 
a mountain plant, and it is not impossible but it may prove 
hardy enough to bear the open air, against a wall. It is with us 
treated like the Australian and New Zealand plants. The female 
flowers appear very apt to coalesce, and the receptacles then to 
bear two berries; and even when there is one, the receptacle 
seems to be often unnaturally enlarged, and to be much: de- 
formed. The male amenta are described from Dr. Wallich’s 
_ JUNE Ist, 1852. 
