248 CXVI. CONIFERJE: [ Podocarpus. 
; Mirb. in ven Mus. Par. xiii. 75. — 
Pierio nro p € usually low, Miiotunos attaining 
ft. Leaves crowded, "linear, FORME or falcate, rigid, varying from 
ps long and obtuse to $ in. and acute, especially on luxuriant barren 
ranches. 
Male amenta 2 to 3 lines ong. usually solitary and gem 
or nearly so in the axils. Fruits much smaller tha any 
the ori the fleshy receptacle about 11 Hee ronga sessile ; in the axil, 
seed not CH ong. — Hook. f. Fl. T i. 956; Parlat. 
C. Prod. xvi ii. 020; JP. Lawrencii, nada £O in Hook. Lond. 
Jc ourn. iv. 151. 
vi iod: ‘Mount Butler, Hardinge's range, Cobberas mountains, at an elevation of 
"E to 6000 ft., F. Mueller 
smania. Mou ut Wellington (Table monni) R. Brown; Mountain localities 
at an pomum of 3000 to 4000 ft., J. D. Hoo 
The P. Lawrencii can scarcely be considered as a distinct yit for it appears to 
be the form assumed by the luxuriant fait sw of young plan 
Ordrer CXVII. CYCADEA. 
Flowers unisexual; without any perianth. Male flowers forming 
catkins or cones consisting of numerous spirally arranged imbric cated 
m n i the con 
i led 
scales (or stamens), more or less cuneate, bearing o cea 
f their e surface numerous sessile or rarely stipita 
anther-cells, each openi alves; the upper imbricate and 
the old leaves. ves form ane d n at the apex of the stem, 2 
or rie ai. Oha sessile or de "hbri podniitité within the 
7 es. 
The O her 
tropical Asia. Of the tbree A n genera one is also in Asi ver Africa, the eot 
two are endemic. The theoretical signifi e$ of the outer coating of the ov 
seeds, whether carpellary or or seminal, is, as in the Conifera, still a subject of com 
tion. 
