towards the tip. The plant from which the figure now 
eiven has been prepared has long been in the collection at 
Kew. It is a spreading bush, now 10 ft. high and 15 ft. 
through, furnished to the ground with luxuriant dark 
green foliage. In its bolder leaves and larger fruits it 
provides an agreeable contrast with the common Yew, and 
is very well adapted for semi-shaded places in the garden 
or as part of the undergrowth in thin woodland. The 
fruits are not produced plentifully every year, but they 
usually occur in sufficient quantity to afford an adequate 
and convenient means of increase. Any good soil suits the 
species; the chief point to be kept in mind in its cultivation 
is that it loves abundant moisture. 
Descrierion.— Tree, dioecious and glabrous throughout, 
in the warmer parts of its area reaching a height of 35 ft., 
in cooler tracts, as in the Kew collection, rather a branching 
shrub about 10 ft. high. Leaves persisting, alternate and 
spirally attached, but assuming a position bringing them 
into one plane, linear-subulate and Yew-like, rather thick, 
811 in. long, 1-1} lin. broad, suddenly sharp-pointed, 
narrowed at the base and shortly petioled, the petioles 
mostly partially twisted, midrib prominent above, margins » 
obtuse. Male flowers in short peduncled solitary globose 
axillary inflorescences usually about 10-flowered, 1}—2 lin. 
wide, bracts 1-flowered, peduncle densely clothed with 
imbricate scales; anthers 5-8 in each flower, usually 
8-celled, cells dehiscing longitudinally. emale flowers 
solitary, ovate, about 23 lin. wide, distinctly stalked ; scales 
fleshy, 2-ovuled. Seed almost always solitary in each 
flower, naked, ovoid, about 14 in. long, the outer coat thick 
and fleshy, the inner hard and horny. Embryo small, 
cylindric, axial in the upper part of the albumen ; cotyledons — 
2, short. 
Fig. 1, transverse section of a leaf; 2, a male inflorescence; 8, bract from 
the base of a male flower; 4 and 5, anthers; 6, a female flower; 7, an advanced 
ovule; 8, section of a ripe seed; 9, embryo :—all except 8 enlarged, 
