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green colour, and tapering to both ends, but most towards the 

 point ; from three to four inches long, and from two to four 

 lines broad, with a single nerve along the middle of a paler 

 colour. Branches, very numerous, scattered, alternate, very 

 rarely opposite, or in threes. Flowers, dioecious, the male ones 

 very small, and sessile on the ends of the branchlets ; the 

 females, on one-flowered peduncles, solitary, and rising from 

 the base of the leaves on the branches. Fruit, solitary, very 

 rarely two in number, at the extremity of the receptacle, fleshy, 

 ovate, obtuse, dark purple, smooth, shining, and with a slight 

 point on the apex, and from two to four lines long. 



A tree forty feet high, found abundantly on the mountains of 

 Chili, where it is called ' Manigui.' 



No. 7. PoDOCARPUS CHiNENsis,TFa//icA,the Chinese Podocarpus, 

 Syn. Podocarpus macrophylla Maki, Endlicher. 



„ „ Makoya, Pin. Wob. 



„ „ Maki, Siebold. 



„ „ Makayi, Lawson. 



„ „ Makoyi, Hort. 



„ Taxus Chinensis, Roxburgh. 



„ „ Makoya, Hort. 



Leaves, linear-lanceolate, slightly pointed, closely placed, 

 alternate, somewhat two-rowed, and reflected on the margins, 

 green above and glaucous below on the younger ones, but the 

 older ones are of a paler colour, with an elevated straight rib 

 along the middle on the upper surface, terminating in an obtuse 

 point. Branches, erect, spreading, alternate, or opposite, or 

 sometimes somewhat vertical ; branchlets, short and slender. 

 Male flowers, numerous, axillary towards the extremities of the 

 branches, frequently connected in threes on the same peduncle, 

 and rather more than an mch long ; female flowers, on lateral 

 footstalks, with a fleshy receptacle nearly an inch long. Fruit, 

 cylindrical, oblong, obtuse-pointed, or slightly tapering to the 

 base when young, but when old more globular, of a shining 

 green, tolerably intense, and covered with a glaucous powder. 

 The males and females are on separate plants, the male one 



