266 FLORA VITIENSIS. 
EXPLANATION oF Pratt LXXVI., representing Dammara Vitiensis, Seem. Fig. 2, a cone (nat. size) : 
3, scale and seed; 4, one of the wings of seed (both 3 and 4 magnified). Fig. 1 represents leaf and part of 
branch of a young sterile plant, which may possibly not belong to D. Vitiensis, but to D. macrophylla, 
Lindl. ; it should, however, be added, that I collected it close to the tree from which the cone and other 
branch figured in our Plate were taken. 
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II. Podocarpus, L'Hérit. mss. ; Endl. Conif. p. 206. Flores dioici aut rarius in diversis ramis 
monoici. Fl.4: Amenta terminalia aut ssepius axillaria, 1 v. oo in pedunculo communi fasciculata, 
laxe spicata aut subracemosa, nuda, basi bracteis cincta, crasse cylindrica v. filiformi-gracilia. Sta- 
mina oo, axi inserta; filamenta brevissima; anthere 2-loculares, connectivo squamiformi interdum 
minimo obsoleto superatze, loculis oppositis extrorsum dehiscentibus. Flores 9 spicati, spica raris- 
sime laxa, sepissime abbreviata, 1—2-flora, bracteis cum rhachi carnosa coalitis et solo apice liberis 
v. rhachi carnoso incrassata ebracteata semini receptaculum succosum preebentibus. Squama ebrac- 
teata y. in bractez axilla 1 subeymb:eformis, infra apicem ovulifera. Ovulum 1, infra apicem squame 
sessile, inversum, squamz juxta totam longitudinem adnatum, integumento exteriore in collum breve 
producto integumentum interius tegente. Semen inversum, integumento exteriori earnoso cum 
squama apice sepissime in apiculum brevem producta omnino connato, interiore vero osseo drupa- 
ceum. Embryo in apice albuminis farinacei antitropus.—Arbores excelsz v. rarius frutices; folia 
rarissime opposita et tunc enervia, late ovata, scepissime sparsa, linearia, uninervia, quandoque quin- 
quefariam imbricata aut distiche patentia, enervia, et Cupressinarum in modum dimorpha, subtus v. 
rarius utrinque stomata gerentia; gemme perulate.* 
Vieillard names, but does not describe, a new species of this genus ( P. Nove-Caledonia) in his * Useful 
Plants of New Caledonia’ (Ann. Se. Nat. (Ser. 4) vol. xvi. p. 56.). 
l. P. affinis, (sp. nov.) Seem. mss.; arborea; foliis sparsis approximatis lineari-oblongis obtu- 
sissimis basi attenuatis 1-nerviis (14 unc. long., 4 lin. lat.) margine revolutis, supra lucidis viridibus, 
subtus pallidioribus stomatibus donatis; fl. et fruc. ignot.—Nomen vernac. Vitiense, “ Kuasi."— 
Mountains of Viti Levu, and formiug the principal part of the vegetation of the summit of Voma 
Peak (Seemann! n. 574). 
Allied to P. elata, R. Brown, to which I referred it in my provisional list of Vitian plants, but evi- 
dently a different species. The natives use the wood for outriggers of canoes. 
2. P. bracteata, Blume, Enum. Plant. Jav. 88; Endl. Conif. p. 216; foliis approximatis lineari- 
lanceolatis longe acuminatis margine planis; amentis d fasciculatis elongato-filiformibus basi squa- 
mis persistentibus.— Zignum emanum, Rumph. Amb. vol. iii. p. 47. t. 26. Nomen vernac. Vitiense, 
^ Gagali."— Banks of Navua and other rivers of Viti Levu (Seemann! n. 575). 
The sterile specimens I collected of my n. 575 agree best with P. bracteata, which in leaf seems to 
differ principally from P. macrophylla, Don, by the edge being flat, not recurved. In Viti the tree grows 
principally by rivers, and I did not see it higher than forty feet. During the wet season a great part of 
the trees is under water, but this submersion does not seem to affect them more than it does our Willows. 
The wood is peculiarly elastic, and would probably answer well for keels of boats and schooners. 
9. P. Vitiensis, Seem. in Bonplandia, vol. x. p. 366, et Journ. of Botany, 1863, p. 33. t. 2 
(Tab. LXXVIII.); arbor excelsa; ramis teretibus brunneis; foliis omnibus distichis ovato-lanceolatis 
* Podocarpus Dulcamara, Seemann in Bonplandia, vol. ix. p. 253,—a species differmg from all other 
Conifere, by the leaves having a very sweet taste when first ehewed, but directly after bitter, and culti- 
vated in some gardens under the erroneous name of Arauearia lancifolia,—is identical with Podocarpus 
amara, Blume, Rumphia, t. 170; Blume's name, however inappropriate, enjoying the right of priority. 
