658 DESCRIPTION OF THREE SPECIES OF FODOCARUS. 
Th.) elongata, another Cape species of the genus, and the one 
on which the genus itself was founded by L'Héritier. The 
specific name I have not retained, because that had been 
applied, and with greater propriety, to another Podocarpus, 
before it was determined that the present was really of the 
same genus. P. Thunbergii is described as a lofty tree, and 
known to the Cape colonists by the name of Geelhout; and 
it would appear to yield a wood of much value in South 
Africa; for Burchell says, that the greatest part of the tim- 
ber used in building, and indeed for every other purpose, is 
the Geelhout (Yellow-wood, including, according to the 
same author, not only P. Thunbergii, but P. elongata) and 
the Stinkhout (Stinkwood, Laurus bullata) figured in the 
Ist series of this Journal, vol. iv. p. 418, tab. xxiii. 
This Podocarpus, as well as the preceding (P. coriacea) 
belongs to the first of the four sections into which Mr. 
Bennett, in his elaborate remarks on P. cupressina Br., in 
Horsfield’s * Plante Javanice Rariores,” divides the genus, 
and which he thus distinguishes :—“ Flores dioici. Amenta 
mascula axillaria, solitaria v. aggregata: Flores fteminei axil- 
lares, pedunculis (ramulis brevibus) nudis suffulti; recepta- 
culo aucto carnoso ex axi spice abbreviate et scepius 1-flore, 
cum squamulis duabus v.tribus, apicibus tantum liberis, 
bracteolarum subtendentium vicem gerentibus, coalitis.— 
Folia quinquefariam inserta, undique versa, linearia v. oblonga, 
nervo medio instructa, stomata in pagina inferiore tantum 
Tas. XXII. Podocarpus Thunbergii: a fruit-bearing 
branch, nat. size ; f. 1. fruit, slightly magnified. 
PODOCARPUS LATIFOLIA. Wall. 
Monoica, foliis suboppositis ovatis acuminatis nervosis, 
amentis masculis fasciculatis axillaribus pedunculo communi 
suffulto, * nuce globosa, receptaculo angusto bracteis sparsis 
obsito.”—(Tas. XXIII.) 
Podocarpus latifolia. Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar. v. 1. p. 26. tab. 
30 (non Br. nec BL) 
