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tary in a lax spike.—Trees or shrubs with linear or ovate, 
nerved or nerveless leaves. 
1. PODOCARPUS, L’ Hérit. 
Flowers dicecious or rarely moneecious on different branches. 
—Male: Catkins terminal or axillary, solitary or tufted, 
loosely spiked or subracemose, nude, girt at base with imbri- 
cate bracts. Stamens many, on the axis; filaments very 
short; anthers 2-celled, with a scale-like connective, extrorse. 
—Female: In 1-—2-flowered spikes, the bracts confluent with a 
fleshy rachis, or an ebracteate fleshy rachis serving as a recep- 
tacle for the seed. Ovule 1, sessile under the apex of a scale, 
inverted, adnate throughout its length to the scale, the outer 
coat prolonged into a short neck, covering the inner. Seed 
inverted, its outer coat fleshy, inner bony ; embryo in the 
apex of fleshy albumen.—EKndl. Gen. n. 1800. 
Trees or shrubs, widely dispersed. Leaves rarely opposite, commonly 
scattered, linear or oblong, 1-nerved or nerveless.—There are a few South 
African species, of which the common “ Yellow Wood” (P. latifolius) is the 
best known. 
SunorpEr 2. Cupressineze. Ovules 1 or more, sometimes 
many, at the bases of peltate, hard scales, arranged in small 
capitate cones.—Trees or shrubs, with alternate opposite or 
ternate, narrow or small and scale-like leaves. 
2. WIDDRINGTONIA, Endl. 
Flowers dicecious.— Male: Catkins terminal, solitary, minute, 
with a diphyllous involucre. Stamens many, decussately 
opposite on an axis, quadrifariously imbricate ; filaments very 
short, produced into an obliquely peltate, scale-like connec- 
tive, bearing 2 anther-cells on its underside.—Female: Cat- 
kins at the ends of lateral ramuli, solitary. Ovuliferous-scales 
4, equal, shortly mucronate below the apex, valvately connate 
round a short axis. Ovules 5-10, at the base of each scale, 
erect. Cone subglobose, 4-valved, the valves woody, mucro- 
nate, erect. Seeds few, winged.— Endl. Gen. n. 1790. 
South African trees, the “ Cedars” of the Cederberg Mountains. Leaves 
closely set, alternate, in the young plant linear-acicular, spreading, in the 
adults scale-like, densely imbricate, often glanduliferous at back. 
Orpver CXIX. CYCADEZ. 
Flowers unisexual.—Male-flowers in cones, each floret con- 
sisting of a scale or anther, bearing pollen on its under surface 
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