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rows, smooth on the margins, linear-lanceolate, closely set 

 along the shoots, and tapering to a long point ; from two to 

 four inches long, and three-quarters of an inch broad, with a 

 prominent rib on the under side, and channelled above ; green 

 on both sides, on short footstalks, slightly undulated and flex- 

 ible. Branches, in whorls, very spreading and slender; lateral 

 ones somewhat in whorls, and swelled round the base. Buds, 

 small, somewhat globular, and covered with scales. Male 

 flowers in axillary bundles, of from three to five, on short stout 

 peduncles, from half to one inch in length, and naked at the 

 base ; fruit unknown. 



A tall tree, growing 200 feet high, with a spreading head, 

 found on the highest parts of the volcanic mountains of Salak, 

 Gede, &c., on the western part of the Island of Java. 



It is very tender. 



No. 3. PoDocAHPUS Antarctica, Van Hoiitte, the Antarctic 

 Podocarpus. 

 Syn. Podocarpus curvifolia, Carriere. 



Leaves, ovate-oblong, alternate, thick, leathery, smooth, 

 shining, stiff, revolute, and closely placed along the shoots ; 

 from two to five inches long, slightly concave on the back near 

 the margins, flat on the upper surface, a little reflected on the 

 edges, and with a projecting rib along the middle, on both 

 faces, tapering at the base into a short stout footstalk, regularly 

 and briefly terminating in a thick obtuse point, never acute, 

 but frequently black. 



A large tree, supposed to be found on the Andes of Pata^ 

 gonia and Chili, but of which little is known. 



No. 4. Podocarpus Bidwilli, Hoibrenk,'B\^\f\\Vs Podocarpus. 



Leaves, linear-lanceolate, alternate, spread out, and without 

 any nerves, from one to one inch and a half long, and from one 

 to two lines broad, tapering to both extremities, and furnished 

 on the apex with a sharp point. Fruit unknown. 



A tree of which little is known beyond what is here stated, 



