Tab. 7854. 



PODOCARPUS PECTINATA. 

 Native of New Caledonia. 



Nat. Ord. CoNiFEREiE. — Tribe Podocabpe^. 

 Genus Podocaepus, L'ffir.; {Benth. & Hoolc.f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 433.) 



PoDOCARPUS (Dacrycarpus) pectinata; arbor 50-60-pedaHs, trunco robngto, 

 ramuHs craasiusculis viridibua flexaosis, foliis hiformibus, aliis spareis 

 parvis squamiformibuSi^o-j poll, longia ramis ramiilisque appressis ovatia 

 acuminatis, aliis in ramulos breves terrain ales sessilibus bifariis confertis 

 ascendentibus linearibus acutis v. obtusis crassiusculis saturate viridibuB 

 fascia alba ntrinque costae ornatis marginibus recurvis, spicis masculia 

 1-3 terminalibus decurvis 1-1^ poll, longis cylindraceis | poll, diam., 

 antheris dense imbricatis late deltoideis angalis rotundatia ad ^ poll, 

 latis, loculis ad basin connectivi membranacei divaricatis, pedunculia 

 femineis 2-3 terminalibus incurvato-reflexis i poll, longis unifloris inferne 

 gracilibus bracteis membranaceis imbricatis ovato-triangalaribug decur- 

 rentibus stipatis, superne incraasatis bracteis 5-6 distantibus basi decur- 

 rente carnosis mamillosis, bractearum limbo abbreviato triangulari, 

 ultima sola latiore seminifera, semine immaturo ovoideo extus carnoso 

 sulcis plexisque undique excavate, hilo basilari lato, micropjle infra 

 apicem sito 2-labiato labio anteriore producto. 



P. pectinata, Panch. mss. ex. Brongn. & Gris in Bull. Bot. Soe. France, vol. 

 xvi. (1869) p. 330. Benth. ^- JTook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 433. 

 Maders. in Gard. Ghron. 1892, vol. i. p. 113. ^rtw Bulletin, April, 18&2, 

 p. 105. 



Dacrtdittm Pancheri, Brongn. Sc Gris I.e. 



The position of the plant here figured, whether under 

 Dacrydium or Podocarpus, is as yet unsettled, from the 

 absence of female flowers and ripe fruit. Brongniart and 

 Gris describe the micropjle of the unripe seed as sub- 

 terminal, which would indicate Dacrydium as its genus; 

 but its discoverer, Mr. Pancher, referred it to Podocarpus, 

 of which it has the habit, but in which the micropjle is 

 basal. In the " Genera Plantarum " it is placed with 

 another New Caledonian species (Dacrydium faxoides, 

 Brongn. & Gris) in the sections Dacrycarpus, of Podocarpus, 

 of which that work sajs, '' nobis tam fructu quam habitu 

 ad Podocarpum referenda videntur"; and this view is 

 adopted bj Dr. Masters. It maj form a genus, Dacry- 

 carpus, distinct from both, for its authors point out as two 

 remarkable particularities, the seed being drupaceous, and 

 wanting the cupula of Dacrydhnn, 



September 1st, 1902. 



