ENUMERATED IN THE PINETUM. XXI 



Gen. PhylloclA-DUS, RicharfL Leaves, minute scale-like 

 bodies on the margins of the branchlets ; branch- 

 lets, leaf-like, opposite, pinnated, or fan-shaped, 

 and feather-nerved. 



Flowers, male and female separate, but on the 

 same plant. 



Fruit, in small connected heads, with a fleshy 

 disk. 



Seeds, solitary, very small, half enclosed at the 

 base, and nut-like, with a thin shell. 



Tribe II. PODOCARPEiE, the Podocakpus Tribe. 



Flowers, monoecious, or dioecious. 



Fruit, drupaceous, seeds inverted. 



Leaves, linear, or lanceolate, and one or many nerved. 



Gen. P0DOCA.RPUS, L'lleritier. Leaves, either opposite, alter- 

 nate, or scattered, linear or oblong, and one-nerved. 



Floicers, male and female mostly on separate 

 plants, but sometimes moncecious. 



Fruit, drupaceous, inverted, and adhering. 



Seeds, bony shelled. 



Sec. I. EUPODOCARPUS, the True Podocarpus. 



Leaves, alternate, or scattered, and linear. 

 Fruit, solitary, with a fleshy receptacle connected 

 with the bracts by the axis of the short spike. 



Sec. II. STACHYCARPUS, the Spike-fruited Podocarpus. 

 Leaves, alternate, or in two rows, and linear. 

 Flowers, in spikes, provided with bracts, and fre- 

 quently all abortive, except the upper ones. 

 Fleshy receptacle, wanting. 



Sec. III. DACRYCARPUS, the Dacrydium-fruited Podocarpus. 



Leaves, many-formed, and either three-sided or 

 needle-shaped, and in five rows, or spreading, linear, 

 and flat. 



Floicers, solitary and terminal. 



Fruit, pendant, almost drupaceous ; receptacle, 

 fleshy, with the axis of the short spike without 

 bracts. 



