NAGEIA. 



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No. 3. Nageia grandifolta, Gordon, the Great-leaved Nagi, 

 Syn. Podocarpus grandifolia, Endlicher. 



Leaves, opposite, oblong, lanceolate, thick at the margins, 

 many-nerved, and covered with stomates on both surfaces. 



This species, according to Professor Endlicher, is easily dis- 

 tinguished from Dr. Wallich's Podocarpus latifolia, which it 

 much resembles, by its leaves being more than six inches long, 

 and one inch and three quarters broad, and stiff, with the 

 branchlets of a reddish colour, and the buds being rounded and 

 obtuse. 



It is very doubtful of what country it is a native, but most 

 probably China, or Japan, or the Mountains of India, certainly 

 not western. 



It is quite tender. 



No. 4. Nageia Japonica, GcBrtner, the Japan Laurel. 

 Syn. Podocarpus Nageia, R. Broivn. 

 „ Cupressus bambusacea, Otolanzan. 

 „ Myrica Nagi, Thunberg. 

 „ Laurus julifera, -SrfE/?z/)/er. 



Leaves, in opposite pairs, but frequently alternate, elliptic, or 

 oblong-lanceolate, attenuated at the base, and acuminate at the 

 point ; three inches long, and rather more than one inch broad 

 in the widest part. Branches, spreading, alternate, or opposite, 

 slender, swelling at the place of insertion, frequently pendant, 

 and furnished with leaves in double pairs, or in threes, an inch 

 distant apart between each set ; of the same colour on both 

 sides, smooth, and of a dull, purplish green colour. Flowers, 

 dioecious, but sometimes on the same plant. Male catkins, in 

 threes or fours, rising from the axil of the leaves. Fruit, soli- 

 tary, very rarely produced in pairs, axillary and slender ; half 

 an inch long, frequently with the peduncle curved, and when 

 ripe of a blackish purple colour on the outside, covered with a 

 glaucous powder resembling that on the common sloe ; rind 

 very thin, soft, succulent, insipid, loosely adhering, and orbicu- 

 lar ; about the size of a cherry, quite round, smooth, and with 



