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 Ovato-subulate leaves (f. 4); the lower branches, bearing 
fruit, have the leaves similar to those in our main figure 
(E 1, 5, & 6); these gradually pass into the upper and longer 
numerous branches, which exhibit the long, slender, acutely 
four-angled foliage, as shown at f. 2 &3. That state of the 
Plant sent by Dr. Wallich in 1824 as J. Phillipsiana (but 
Which in his “ Catalogue ” he correctly refers to Dacrydium 
elatum) has all the leaves short and densely imbricated, and 
Is itself our fig. 1. In the Fl. Indica, Dr. Roxburgh says 
. the leaves are “ subcylindric and mucronate,” which is 
Rot the case with any of them. The same author speaks of 
| the tree as constituting a large timber of slow growth; but 
nothing more of its history is yet known to us. 
Tab. II. Fig. 1. Portion ofthe tree with all the leaves short 
and imbricated; f. 2, portion of ditto, with acicular leaves ; f. 3, 
leaves of f. 2, magnified ; f. 4, leaf from a main branch, mag- 
. Med; £. 5, fruit-bearing branch, magnified; f. 6, lower por- 
ie a the main branch, magnified; f. 7, single leaf, mag- 
. 
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