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and that it comes from the east coast of New Holland, and very 

 much resembles the Podocarpus Iseta, from the same country, 

 of which it may only be a variety. 



No. 5. Podocarpus bracteata, Blume, the Bracteated 

 Podocarpus. 



Leaves, scattered, but sometimes in close whorls, straight, or 

 somewhat falcate, linear-lanceolate, and regularly tapering to 

 the base, flat on the edges, and furnished with scales at the 

 base, slightly twisted, very acute pointed, leathery, and a little 

 glossy, from three to five inches long, and from four to six lines 

 broad on the adult trees, but from eight to nine inches long, 

 and from eight to ten lines broad on the young plants. 

 Branches, horizontal, cylindrical, and covered with reddish- 

 grey bark; branchlets, opposite; male catkins, collected in 

 bundles, rarely solitary, oval, and almost sessile ; females 

 axillary, solitary, and furnished at the base with a bractiform 

 involucre ; receptacle thick. Fruit globose. 



A large tree, growing eighty feet high, with a straight stem, 

 covered with a smooth bark, and the top much branched, found 

 in the forests of Amboyna, on the volcanic mountains of 

 Burangrang, and in the western parts of Java. 



It gets very much reduced in size and stature as it ascends 

 the mountains, and has the following variety, according to 

 Dr. Blume : — 



Podocarpus bracteata brevipes, Blume. 



This variety has much shorter and narrower leaves, and 

 shorter peduncles. Fruit, elliptic, or somewhat globular, and 

 very much smaller. 



It is found on the western mountains of Java. 



No. 6. Podocarpus Chilina, Richard^ the Chili Podocarpus. 

 Syn. Podocarpus saligna, Don. 



Leaves, linear-lanceolate, acute-pointed, straight, rarely fal- 

 cate, alternate, spreading, sessile, entire, flat, smooth, of a bright 



