Podocarpus.] CXVI.. CONIFERE. 247 
spas kinan, acute, 13 to 3 in. long.’ Male amenta 2 to 4 lines 
ene og ae cra Male amenta clustered in the axils. 
Eastern spec . 2, P. spinulosa. 
' Leaves tig piu but scarcely pungent. Male amenta usually 
soli estern species . 8,.P. Dr remmpvionas: 
Leaves em not Du 4 in. Male amenta small and solitary 4. P. alpina. 
. P. elata Br. ; Mirb.in Mem. Mus. Par. xiii. 75. A tree of 
50 to 100 ft. Lave oblong-iear or broadly incur lnceolats very 
variable in size, on some specimens with young flowers 14 to 2 in. long 
and 1 in. wide and quite straight, in the o inar Piers 3 to 6 in. long 
and 4 to 6 lines brond, stinighi or slightly faleate, on some barren 
specimens 8 to 10 in. long $ in. wide and much faloate, acute or rather 
obtuse, the midrib promine ent, the petiole very sh Male amenta 
clustered 2 or 3 toget ex sessile, 1 to 1 lo ny surrounded b 
several short scales or brac male et 2 to 3 lines long, soli- 
a 
ines long, with usually only one mion mieti or globular, 4 to 6 lines 
diameter.—Parlat. in DC. Prod. 017; P. ensifolia, R. Br.; 
irb. lc.; Parlat. lc.; P. falcata, T ion Herb. 
Queensland. Cape Grafton, A. Cunningham; Brisbane river, Moreton bay, 
F. Mueller ; Rockingham ba ` Dallachy. 
N. S. Wales. Hunter's and Paterson riv vers, R. Brow wn; ewm river, Fraser; 
Hunter's river, Leichhardt ; ee and nece big Richmond river, 
"Henderson; llawa rra, A, Cunn: ingham, Macarthu 
. Br.; Mirb. in Mem. Mus, Par 
ine 
bracts below the leaves of the young branches, with 2 small opposite 
bracteoles MORE under the oblon ng 2-lobed autres Seeds 
jag than A m ta,—Parlat. in DC. Prod. xvi. ii. uxus 
sa, Sm. i a xxxv.; P. pungens, Caley: Don in Lamb. 
Pin. a 2, 193 | (Parlato 
N. S. Wales. Port DES Caley, Woolls, and others. ‘Native Plum or 
Damson,” . 
3. P. Drou : Fragm. iv. 80, t. 31. A shrub or 
tree, with virgate branches. Leaves crowded, linear, 2 to 3in. long, 
e BUG, Prod xvi 
W. A , Drummond, 2nd coll. n. 153, 154, 8rd. coll. m. 199, 200; Vasse 
river, idilar ; dare plains, Tone river, Maxwell. 
