XX tablt: or genera 



Sec. III. CUPRESSOIDES, the Cypress-like Junipers. 



Leaves, in opposite pairs, four-rowed, small, scale- 

 formed, and very closely imbricated on the adult 

 plants. Fruit, more or less angular externally. 



Order. II.— TAXACEtE, the Yew Race. 



Tribe I. TAXINE^ VER^, the Yew Tribk. 

 Fruit, more or less drupaceous, and naked on the upper part. 



Gen. Taxus, Smith. Leaves, on short footstalks, linear, decur- 

 rent, two-rowed, and alternate. 



Flowers, male and female on separate plants. 

 Fruit, solitary, and composed of a fleshy open 

 cup, of a scarlet colour, and viscid. 



Seeds, solitary, nut-like, with a crustaceous shell, 

 free, and exposed at the top. 

 Ge». ToKEEYA, Arnott. Leaves, linear-lanceolate, decurrent 

 at the base, and either opposite or alternate. 

 Flowers, male and female on separate plants. 

 Fruit, drupaceous, or fleshy outside, and naked 

 at the point. 



Seeds, singly in each fruit, with the kernel rumi- 

 nated like the inside of the common nutmeg, and 

 covered with a hard bony shell. 

 Gen. Ckphalotaxus, Siehold. Leaves, linear, alternate, or 

 opposite, and in two rows. 

 Flotcers, male and female on separate plants. 

 Fruit, drupaceous, and two or three in a head. 

 Seeds, solitary, nut-like, with a bony shell, en- 

 closed in a fleshy covering, but naked at the point. 

 Gen. Salisburia, Smith. Leaves, fan-shaped, on long foot- 

 stalks, lobed, or jagged on the margins, and covered 

 on both sides with fan-shaped straight nerves. 

 Flowers, male and female on separate plants. 

 Fruit, drupaceous, mostly single from abortion, 

 and enclosed at the base in a small fleshy cup. 



Seeds, solitary, and covered with a hard bony 

 shell. 



