PHILIPPINE GYMNOSPERMS. 155 
termi 
of branchlets; ovule inverted. Seed finally erect 
fraterniinal, ovoid, obtuse, subtrigonous, micropyle apiculate. 
JIiA-iiOEO, Mount Halcqn, For. Bur. U19 Merritt, Merrill 5189; Mount PaIon<r, 
For Bur. 8527 Merritt. Pakay, Province of Anj:ique, Mount Midiaas, Yoder s. n. 
Negros, Mount Silay, For. Bur. J,227 Everett, For. Bur. mS P. del Fi/Zar, For. 
Bur. 13612, 13621 Ctnran & Foxworthy. Mindanao, Province of IMisamia, :Mount 
Malindang,' For. Bur. J,o>t7, -^8, 'PSl Yearns d Hutchinson: District of.Zam- 
boanga, Copeland s. n., probably this species although not a typical form. 
This U distinctlv a plant of high elevations. All the above wore found at 
1000 or more meters elevation. AThere the tree occurs, it is. abundant, forming 
a large" part of the stand. Distribution: Monsoon region; I5urma; Siam and 
Cochin China; Tonkin, Than-Moi; Malacca, Singapore; Penang; Sumatra; Borneo; 
Fiji Islands; and the Philippines. 
3. Dacrydium sp. aflf. D. heccarii Pari. Foxworthy in Philip. Journ. Sei, 2 
(lUOT) 258. - ' Ml 
This form, with long, very slender, aciculate, 4-angled leaves is possibly a 
young form of D. eJatum, although the very slender long leaves do not look like 
that species. ^„ . i *„„:i« 
iIi.NO0Ko, Mount Halcon, at 2,400 m, Merrill 57U, Nov. 190G, a single stenle 
Specimen from a young tree in a thicket oh a ridge. 
2. PODOCARPUS L'Herit.^' 
Dioecious or very rarely nionoecious. Male flowers rarely terminal 
like tliose of DacnjJium and single or several togetlicr sessile or pedun- 
culate in the axils of leaves, surrounded by the squamate sterile bases 
sometimes aggregated or in an inflorescence at the apex of a shor cnea 
branch, rarely spicate (Stacln/carpm) ; anthers often imbricate ahvays 
composed of 2 cells, apiculus usually small. Female flowers rarely sp c- 
ate, ovules remote {Stachycarpus) , or rarely ovules 1 or -^ at the apex o 
short, scarcely thickened branch ; flowers often single, pedunculate m the 
axils of leaves, receptacle fleshy and ba^e squamate, in the fertile part com- 
posed of 1 or 2 carpidia; carpidia always uniovulate; ovules and eovering 
much exceeding the carpidia, rarely grown together with the carpidia a 
the apex (Dan-ycarpu.) ; epimatium smooth curved, with *"™"^ ^^ 
the ovule inverted, the micropyle always facing the ba.e « ^e nna^ 
carpidia. Seeds often large; often ± apicalate, *««- ^"""^ 'f-;"^; "*;; 
exteriorlv fleshv or fleshv-coriaceous, inner layer thickly ^^S^^^'J^ 
scareelv differe;t from the outer. Spreading shrubs ^^ '^■^''- J^'J^- 
rarely ;quamiforni (Dacr year pus), often linear or elongate, ^^- ^l^'^ 
ovate, often acute or mulnate and usually spirally inserted, spreading, 
distichous, rarely opposite or subopposite (Nagcm),^ 
Of the five seetiins, of the genus as recognized by Tilger, four are 
represented in the Pliilippines 
npnipfl and is lounu m ca.^"-- — 
pecies .uiu ic oAPms to reach its 
. -„..iiw.,.., lif^Tn snhere. It seems ,u> 
ihe genus contains about liO species auu .« x-^.™ 
and the temperate regions of the southern hemisphere. 
^Oiie of the no.nuu, con.erranda of the Vienna Congress. 
