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4. TAX US L. 
Flowers dioecious; male axillary^ squamate at the base; anthers 6-14. 
peltate^ 6-8 cells together with connate filaments. Female iio^\'el•s axil- 
lary on squamate branchlet^ ; flower located in the axil of the uppermost 
scale^ involucre of three equal decussate scales; buds containing 1-3 
rudimentary leaves^ rarely in flowering projecting from the next to the 
last scale of the twig ; single ovule in terminal flower erect ; seed ellip- 
soid, testa wood}', cupule campanulate, closed, red, thickly fleshy ; embryo 
placed in the upper part of the albumen, cotyledons 2, thick, pressed 
together. Trees or very much branched shrubs; leaves linear, spirally 
inserted, biseriate-spreading. 
Pilger recognizes only a single species; but it seems to me that his 
subspecies are really good species and T am so treating them. ,. 
Taxus wallichiana Zucc. in Abh. Bayr. Akad. Wiss. 3 (1843) 803, t. 5; Endl. 
Syn. {1847} 244; Carr. Conif. (1807) 740. 
T. haccata subsp. wallichiana (Zucc.) Pilger in Engler Das Pflanzenreich 4' 
(li)03) 112; Perk. Frag. Fl. Philip. (1904) 44; Merr. in Philip. Jourii, Sci. 
5 (1910) Bot. 324. 
r. virgata Wall, ex Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Tnd. 5 (1888) 648. 
T. contortus ( ?) Griff. Not. (1848) 351; Icon. PI. As. t. 376. 
T. haccata Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 1. c. 
CephaJoiaxua svmatrana Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 2 (1859) 1076. 
Oephahfaxus celchica Warh. 'Monsunia 1 (1900) 194. 
Branches laxly leafy; scales of buds at the l)ase of persistent branch- 
his larger, more rigid and more acute than in T, haccaia. Leaves 
more or less falcate, narrowly linear, and base usually strongly curved, 
apex twisted, gradually long-acuminate, acute, 2.5-3 cm or more long, 
rarely in flowering specimens less than 2 cm. 
Luzon, Suhpruviiice of Lepanto, Merrill Jfo95, Micholitz s. «., For. Bur. 1095S 
Outran: Subprovince of Benguet, Loher 4850, Elmer 62U, Williams 1002, Merrill 
mh For. Bur. 50lo, mZf,, JOSSO Ourran, Mearns s, n., Bur. Sci. UOO Mcarns, 
For. Bur. 14I86, VflOl Merritt, For. Bur. 18106 Gurran, Merritt, rf ZschoHe, 
For. Bur. 18366, ISSGO Alvarez, Bur. Sci. 8300 McGregor: Provinces of La Lagima 
and Tayabas, Mount Banajao, Vidal 3907 Loher 7129, 7139, Bur. ScL 2f,31 
Foxirorthy, For. Bur. JOU, Ourran d Merritt, Bur. ,S(n. 6059, 9823 Robinson, 
Calvin 315. 
Rendle* credited a sterile specimen collected by Whitehead in the highlands 
of Lepanto to Gephahtaxus mannii Hook, f., hut later it was referred to this 
species. _ I 
All of our material has been collected at elevations in exce.ss of 1,500 m. 
Where this species occurs, it makes up a very considerable part of the stand. 
Distribution: Sikkim; Darjeeling; ilanipur; Khasia; Burma; 
Celebes; Philippines. 
Sumatra; South 
Mourn. Bot. 34 (1890) 355. 
