DESCRIPTION OF THREE SPECIES OF PODOCARPUS. 657 
botanist, save Richard, who seems to have gathered it in the 
island of Montserrat, and represented a small sprig in his 
Mémoires sur les Coniféres, as illustrating the genus Podo- 
carpus. It is probably a native of other islands in the West 
Indies, and perhaps of the tropical continent of South 
America. At any rate, I possess a Podocarpus from Huranda, 
in Peru, collected by Ruiz and Pavon, which I can hardly 
distinguish from this, except in its smaller foliage. Its male 
spikes are collected in threes at the apex of a peduncle half as 
long as the leaves; but I am not acquainted with the female 
flowers or fruit. The Podocarpus Lamberti vare. angustifolia, 
Klotzsch, mst. (in Herb. Reg. Berol.) from Brazil, again, has 
leaves still smaller than my Peruvian species just mentioned, 
with male spikes exactly similar, and fruit quit bli 
of the P. coriacea ; and lastly, the Brazilian Podocarpus Sellowii, 
Klotzsch, mst. (in Herb. Reg. Berol), has, in general, leaves 
always of the same shape as P. coriacea, but twice the size ; 
while in one specimen, in my possession, with young fruit, 
the identity of the two can scarcely be called in question. 
AB. XXI. Podocarpus coriacea, nat. size; f. 1, fruit, mag- 
nified. 
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Popocarrus TuunBerGu. Hook. 
Foliis coriaceis oblongo-lanceolatis uninerviis obtusis cum 
mucrone basi in petiolum perbrevem sensim attenuatis 
utrinque concoloribus, pedunculis solitariis unifloris longitu- 
dine receptaculi bidentati, drupa elliptico-subrotunda. (Tas. 
XXII.) 
Podocarpus latifolia. Br. in Horsf. Pl. Jav. Rar. p. 40. 
(non Wall). 
Taxus latifolia. Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. p. 547, non Br.) 
Has. Cape of Good Hope. In woods of Houtniquas, 
Grootvader’s Bosch, and elsewhere. Thunberg. 
The representation of this, in the accompanying plate, will 
give a better idea of the species than can be formed by 
words. It was referred by Thunberg to Thuja, and called by 
him Jatifolia, in comparison with the Podocarpus (Taxus, 
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