THE CLUSTER-FLOWERED YEWS. 45 



1. Cephalotaxus drupacea, Siebold, the Drupaceous or 

 Plum-fruited Cephalotaxus. 

 Syn. Cephalotaxus Fortune! feraina, Carriere, 

 y, Podocarpus drupacea, Hort. 

 „ Taxus baccata, Thunberg. 

 „ „ coriacea, Hort. 



Leaves, strictly arranged in two rows laterally along the branches, 

 regularly opposite, rather close, leathery, stiff, linear, slightly 

 curved or falcate, bluntly tapering to a short, acute, spiny point 

 at the apex, and on very short footstalks, more or less twisted 

 at the base, from three-quarters to Ij inch long, and 1^ to two 

 lines broad near the base, of a deep glossy green colour above, 

 with a narrow, elevated nerve along the middle, and with two 

 broad glaucous white bands along the under side, but with the 

 mid rib and margins of a bright glossy green below. Branches, 

 in horizontal whorls along the stem, upper ones sometimes a 

 little ascending, quite straight, very spreading, flat, stiff, and 

 rather short, lateral ones in two rows, quite flat, short, rather 

 numerous, and either opposite or alternately placed at irregular 

 distances along the principal branches ; branchlets, very short, 

 rather stiff, very flat, and spread out laterally on each side. 

 Buds, small, and covered with persistent, imbricated, acute- 

 pointed, more or less extended scales. Male flowers in globular 

 heads provided with bracts, each catkin being oval and rather 

 pointed. Fruit, drupaceous or plum-like, regularly elliptic, 

 and from three-quarters to one inch long, and three-quarters of 

 an inch broad. Seeds, solitary, with a thin, hard, bony shell, 

 covered with a thin fleshy substance, and purplish skin when 

 ripe. Seed-leaves in twos, and rather short. 



A fine, compact, evergreen tree, growing from 20 to 30 feet 

 high, found in China and Japan, both cultivated and in the 

 wild state, particularly on the mountains of Nagasaki, at an 

 elevation of 2000 feet, and in the north of China, in the pro- 

 vince of Yang- Sin. 



It is quite hardy. 



