PODOCARPUS NUBIGENA AND P. TOTARA 245 



where it has contrived to keep the even tenor of its 

 way, and one such city of refuge has a specimen 

 found at Llanarth (Mr. P. D. Williams), near the 

 Lizard in Cornwall. The leaf is half the size of that 

 of the P. Chilina, and shows without microscopic 

 aid two very distinct stomatic bands between two 

 green margins and central bands, each nearly as wide 

 as the stomata row. 



The P. Neriifolius is mentioned in our Table, a 

 tree sometimes called P. Macrophylla var. Acutissima. 

 It is described in Plantce Wilsoniance (Sargent) " as 

 a handsome tree growing in the warmer part of 

 Szechuan, and more especially on Mt. Omei.'* If 

 the latter situation may read promising, the sentence 

 preceding seems to hold out no hope for it here on 

 earth with us. 



The P. Alpinus is only a four-foot bush with us, 

 but highly recommended as hardy in Veitch's book 

 of Conifers. Whether it is a more mountainous 

 relation of the P. Totara — it was once called the 

 P. Totara Alpina — or not, it comes from the same 

 quarter of the globe. 



The P. Totara we have previously alluded to. As 

 a tree it has yet its spurs to win with us. 



In New Zealand it is a tree ornamented with 

 dark-green leaves, and much in request for timber 

 purposes. Hefte its leaves, so far, in early stages 

 present a dingy yellow colour. In a four or five 

 years' experience of it here (Stanage Park, Radnor- 

 shire), at an elevation of 750 ft. above the level of 

 the sea, it wears the aspect of a plant, with a de- 

 pressing lack of healthful joy about its appearance, 

 engaged in an uphill struggle for existence which so 

 far it has maintained. 



We must confess from this, our own, experience 

 of an attempt to extend to it a welcome, that it does 

 not look so well pleased a guest in our midst as we 



