138 NAGEIA. 



a small top-shaped point on the apex ; shell, hard, thin, and 

 brittle, enclosing a seed covered with a reddish cuticle, and 

 slightly bitter. 



A tree, growing from thirty to sixty feet high, with the stem 

 covered with a smooth, soft, fleshy, brown bark ; that on the 

 branches being of a beautiful green, and when cut emitting a 

 strong balsamic odour. 



It is found abundantly in Japan, on the mountains in the 

 provinces of Katsuga and Jamato, on the Island of Niphon, 

 where the Japanese call it * Na' or ' Nagi,' a term signifying 

 the Catkin-bearing Laurel. 



No. 5. Nageia lati folia, Gordon y the Broad-leaved Nagi. 

 Syn. Podocarpus latifolia, Wallich. 

 „ „ zamisefolia, Hort. Belg. 



„ „ pinnata, Hort. 



Leaves, in opposite pairs, or nearly so, ovate, lanceolate, 

 spreading, attenuated at the base, much pointed, smooth, very 

 entire, leathery, stiff, and on short footstalks, not more than one 

 or two lines long ; from five to six inches long, and one and a 

 quarter broad, in two rows, of a lively shining green on ' 

 the upper surface, but much paler on the under, with nume- 

 rous longitudinal nerves a little elevated, the larger ones being 

 flat and furrowed. Branches, mostly short, slender, spreading, 

 horizontal, or declining, and quickly denuded of the exhausted 

 leaves ; branchlets, cylindrical, and as green as the leaves, the 

 more younger ones are covered with pale, lanceolate, loosely 

 scattered, glaucescent leaves. Flowers, monoecious ; male cat- 

 kins, in bundles on a common peduncle, axillary, and one inch 

 long. Female flowers, few in number, axillary, solitary, oppo- 

 site, or under the male ones, and supported on cylindrical 

 footstalks about one inch long. Fruit, somewhat globular, or 

 obliquely oval, slightly pointed at the base, placed on an oblong 

 cylindrical cup, green at first, but afterwards purple ; one inch 

 long, covered with loose, spreading, lanceolate, bracteas. 



A middle-sized evergreen tree, growing from twenty to thirty 

 feet high, found on the Mountains of Pundna, a lofty range, 



