PhlUS. MONOECIA MONADELPHIA. 651 



I. F. hmgifolia. Willd. iv. 500. 



Leaves three-fold, filiform, from twelve to eighteen iuches 

 long, pendulous, with the margins a little scabrous. Cones 

 ovate, shorter than the leaves, scales with thick recurved 

 apices. Anthers crowned. 



Hind. Chur the name of the tree, and Swrul the wood. 

 In gardens about Calcutta a few small trees of this species 

 are found, all from Nepal or from the mountains north of the 

 plains of Bengal, and Oude, or reared from seed from thence, 

 where they are found on the stupenduous mountains, grow- 

 ing to an immense size. There they blossom about the be- 

 ginning of the hot season. 



Trunk, 1 have observed above, that the trees about Cal- 

 cutta are small, but in Nepal, 1 am informed they grow 

 straight to upwards of an hundred feet in height ; the bark 

 is scabrous. The branches verticelled, and rather few in 

 number than otherwise, so that here the head is thin, of a 

 roundish form, and yields little shade — I mean the trees 

 about Calcutta. Leaves three-fold, disposed in approximat- 

 ed spiral rows round the end of the branchlets, perfectly fili- 

 form; margins somewhat hispid, when the finger is drawn 

 backward, generally pendulous, and from nine to eighteen 

 inches or more in length. Stipules or sheaths, round the 

 base of the leaves, numerous and chaff)'. Male flowers. 

 Antheral racewes numerous at the extremities of the branch- 

 lets, from their centre issue the shoots of the same season. 

 Bractes solitary, one to each raceme. Flowers very numer- 

 ous. Filaments scarcely any. Anthers clavate, opening on 

 each side, and crowned with a large roundish scale, inflexed 

 over the next above. 



2. P. Devdara. R. 



Branches drooping. Leaves in approximated fascicles of 

 about forty, rigid, acute. Strobilus erect, oval ; scales 

 thereof appressed, thin, smooth, even-edged, transversely el- 

 liptic. Cotyledons ten. 



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