Tas. 8285. 
CEPHALOTAXUS DRUPACEA, 
China and Japan. 
ConIFERAE. Tribe TAXEAE. 
CerHaLoraxus, Steb. et Zucc.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p. 480; Pilger 
in Engl. Phlanzenr, Taxaceae, p. 100, fig. 19. ; 
Cephalotaxus drupacea, Sieb. et Zucc. Fl. Jap. Fam, Nat. vol. ii. p. 108, et 
Fl. Jap. vol. ii. p. 66, tt. 180, 181; Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 
vol. xxvi. p. 544; species inter affines foliis brevioribus breviter aculeato- 
acutis distinguenda. 
Arbor dioica, omnino glabra, in locis subtropicis usque ad 10-metralis, in 
regionibus temperatis ut in horto Kewensi /rutex ramosus paucimetralis 
tantum. Folia persistentia, alterna, spiraliter disposita sed in una planitie 
expansa, lineari-subulata, iis Yuai similia, crassiuscula, 1°5-3 cm. longa, 
2-8 mm. lata, abrupte aculeato-acuta, basi constricta, breviter petiolata 
petiolo semitorto, costa supra elevata, margine obtusa. Flores masculi 
circiter 10 in inflorescentiam breviter pedunculatam axillarem solitariam 
globosam 3-4 mm. diametro aggregati, basi 1-bracteati, pedunculo squamis 
imbricatis dense obtecto; antherae in quoque flore 5-8, saepius triloculares 
loculis rima longitudinale dehiscentibus. Flores feminei solitarii, ovati, 
circiter 5 mm. diametro, distincte pedicellati; carpidia carnosa, 2-ovulata. 
Semen saepissime in quoque flore singulum tantum evolutum, nudum, 
ovoideum, circiter 3 cm. longum; testa exterior crassa, carnosa, interior 
dura, cornea. Embryo parvus, cylindricus, axilis, in parte superiore albu- 
e minis situs; cotyledones 2, breves.— Taxus buccata, Thunb. FI, Jap. p. 275, 
it non Linn.; fide Pilger.—W. Bor1inc HEMSLEY. 
The genus Cephalotacus, as limited by Dr. Pilger in 
1903 in the Pflanzenreich, includes six recent species 
inhabiting Eastern India, Burma, China and Japan. The 
&.. - form distinguished by Siebold and Zuccarini as C. peduncu- 
ie lata is considered by Pilger to be only a variety of C. 
r drupacea, and wild specimens in the herbarium at Kew, 
which are intermediate in character between the two, appear 
to justify this conclusion. Cephalotaus differs from the 
more nearly allied genera in having a pair of ovules on 
each scale, and Torreya nucifera, Sieb. and Zucc., the 
herbarium specimens of which are extremely like those of 
C. drupacea, may be most easily distinguished by its 
narrowly lanceolate leaves tapering more gradually 
is Novempgr, 1909. 
