246 | CXVI. CONIFER. [ Phyllocladus. 
tracted into a very short stipes, the scale-like apex ct ^ anos 2, 
adnate. Female p of a very few scal gm or. 
Besides the Ansteeling species which is endemic, there is one from New Zealand and 
another from Born 
x rhomboidalis, Xich. Conif. 130, t. 3. A slender tree, at- 
taining lep tt. but reduced: to a shrub an Hn summits of mountains, the 
he branches more or less verticillate, the cladodia or deciduous 
eaf-like branchlets cuneate or rhomboidal, obtuse, obtusely toothed or, 
lobed, ł to 2 in. long, the real leaves or scales v ery small and subulate 
or fine-poin nted. Male amenta usually 2 or 3 together, 9 to 4 lines 
emales globular and about 2 lines ae or sometimes lengthen- 
ing out in fruit to 3 or 4 lines, with 1, 2, or 3 fertile scales surmounted 
by 1 or 2 barren ones. Seeds scarcely exceeding the scales.— Hook. f. 
Tasm. i. 358; Parlat. in DC. Prod. xvi. 40D; P. Billardieri, 
Mirb. in Mem. Mus. Par r. xii. 76; P. aspleni wie, Hook. f. in Hook. — 
Lond. Journ. iv. 151; Podocarpus asplenifolia; Labill Pl. Nov. "Hol. ik c 
71; t. TN Thalamia Psa Spreng. Syst. 
Pikia a. Derw r, R. Brown ; apr in a lirei in the mountainous 
and PARVA parts of “the pest J. D. Hoo. 
1l. PODOCARPUS, L'Her. 
brin imbricate ; "anthen-cells 2. Female Bimente of 9 to 4 br acts ¢ or 
receptacle, unequally 2- or 4-toothed at the apex. Ovules 1 or 
exserted, reversed and adnate to an erect stipe from within the larger 
teeth or bracts of the receptacle. Seeds drupaceous, the nu ucle 
ean nies in a double integument, the outer one succulent, the inner onè - 
ong. nica with 2 short coty ledons and an inferior radicle.-—Tre® "d 
or shrubs. Leavesalternate or rarel ppposite, usually POistichous an 
flat, with a prominent midrib. ud ly. Amenta axillary oF 
terminal, solitary or several together, Sale or shortly racemose. ` 
The genus is dispersed over the tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World, | 
from South Africa and New Zealand k Japan, and over the whole of South America 
The Australian Bed are all endem 
eina broadly oblong a or Jer " to 10 in. p" Male 
amenta 1 to 13 in. lon . 1. P. elata. 
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