PHILIPPINE GYMNOSPERMS. IGl 
known. Fruit ovoid, 8-10 mm long, on a fleshy receptacle \v]ii(;]i lias 
two minute subulate bracts at the base. 
SriNDORO, Mount Halcon, at 2,150 m alt., Merrill olo',, Nov. lOOG: Xeuhos, 
Mount Canlaon, at 1,450 m alt., Phil PI. 2',1 Merrill, Apr. 1910. Mindanao, 
Mount Malindang, at 2,790 m alt., For, Bur. J^Gl'S Mcarns cC- Hutchinsov, May 
1906. 
First collected by ^yarbu^g in the inonntain forest on Wawo-Krfieng in Celebes. 
7 Podocarpus costalis C. Presl Epiniel. Bot. (1851) 23G pro parti- (Spe3. 
Haenke) excl. syn. Brown et Blume et Cuming 803; F.-Vill. Novi.s. App. (ISHO) 
211- Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. 2 (1859) 1074; Coron Cat. PI. Herb. (1892) 187; 
Warburg, Monsunia 1 (1900) 193; Pilger in Engler Das man/.m-oich 4 = 
(1903) 78. 
P. sp. aff. costalis Presl; Vidal Sinopsis Atlas (1883) xliii, t 91, f. D, 
Tree, 5-15 m t^ll. Branches few, short, spreaJing, densely leafy 
above. Leaves turned in all directions, spreading or crect-spreadmg, 
coriaceous, narrow or broadly linear-lanceolate, of uniform width 
almost to the apex, which is abruptly rounded, obtuse, gradually 
changing at the base into the short rather broad petiole, shnung above 
on drying dz fuscous above and below, 5-7 cm long, 10-12 mm broad 
or 3-4.5 cm long and about 6 mm broad or much larger m leaves from 
rol)ust seedling plants, midrib scarcely conspicuous above or m a broadish 
irregular obtuse ± prominent furrow, beneath broadly marked, but 
scarcely or but little prominent, irregularly slightly impressed m drymg. 
Male inflorescence single, sessile, thick, cylindraeeous, base surrounded by 
a rigid, short, obtusely-rounded bract, 3 cm long. Female inflorescence 
single, axillary; peduncles about 2 mm long; receptacle fleshy, scales ^, 
formin 
long, with 2 very small bracts at the base. Seed elliptical, apex slightly 
obtusely produced, in drying fusco-nigrescent, 9-10 mm lung. 
Known only fvo,n tl.e Philippines. First collectea ^'^ «-"'^;' l^™;;;;';;^;;;: 
Mt. Banajao, L the islaaid of Luzon, from which '->'-\-'l'^': f'^'^^'^'Z 
of this secies, Loker 211,0, 712S, 1900; B.n: 8ci. 239$, 2J,2S Fo..o„ny. Mar. 
1907, For. Bur. 7913 Curran S Merritt, Nov. 1907. 
(nomen) et ex Bennett in Horsf. PI. Jav. Rar(1838) 40 <'— ',' g^ 
Syn. (1847) 215; Carr. Conif. (180T) ^f^ < ^^ ^^^f 3^';'. ^^.^^ ' Engler Dai 
515; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 3 (1!>08) Bot. aJ4, ru^ei 
Pflanzenreieh 4'^ (lOO:?) 70. 
P. neriifolia Don p. parte in Lnmb. Pin. ed. 2, 2 (18-8) 
I can „,t b„ „„e that «,i. ^« « ^'^t^T !:;^T ^JX 
ine tollowniff aescnpiion ib lai^^u. --""- , - ^ p.Iqu-iti 
of what is said concerning the seed, which is taken from our lala.an 
material. 
