PODOCARPUS. 



Gen. PODOCARPUS. Heritier. 



Flowers, dioecious, rarely moncecious. 



Fruit, drupaceous, inverted, and adhering. 



Seeds, hard, and bony shelled. 



Leaves, either opposite, alternate or scattered, linear or ob- 

 long, and one-nerved. 



Seed-leaves, in twos. 



Name, derived from ' irov^^ a foot, and ' Kapiro<i,^ a fruit, 

 fruit foot-stalked. 



All natives of the temperate zones of Asia, Africa, and 

 America. 



Section I. EUPODOCARPUS, Endlicher, or the True 



PODOCARPS. 



Fruit) solitary. 



Recq)tacle, fleshy, connected with the bracts by the axis of 

 the short spike. 



Leaves, alternate or scattered, linear, and one-nerved. 



No. 1. PoDOCARPUS Alpina, R. Brown, the Alpine Podocarpus. 



This very doubtful species is said to be found on Mount 

 Wellington, in Tasmania, at an elevation of 4,000 feet, and on 

 the elevated plains of Malborough, at a height of 3,000 feet 

 above the sea. 



It probably is nothing but Arthrotaxis selaginoides, which is 

 sometimes called A. Alpina. 



No. 2. Podocarpus amara, Blume, the Bitter Podocarpus. 

 Syn. Podocarpus cuspidata. Hart. Par. 



Leaves, alternate, or frequently opposite, somewhat in two 



