PODOCARPUS. 273 



attenuated at the base, and more or less reflected on the mar- 

 gins, slightly concave, and of a bright glossy green above and 

 glaucous below, with an elevated rib on both faces, but most 

 projecting on the under one. Branches, in whorls, lateral ones 

 ascending ; buds, oval, terminal one solitary, and covered with 

 scales. Flowers and fruit unknown. 



A large tree, covered with a reddish bark ; found in the vast 

 forests on the eastern part of Java, particularly on the most ele- 

 vated parts of the volcanic mountains of Tjerimai and Cheribon- 



It is very tender. 



No. 10. PoDOCARPUs ELATA, R, Bvown, the Lofty Podocarpus. 



Leaves, alternate, spreading, linear, tapering to an obtuse 

 point at both extremities, from three inches and a half to four 

 inches long, and about four lines broad. Fruit, axillary, solitary, 

 and one-seeded on a slender receptacle ; receptacle, cylindrical, 

 almost club-shaped, with the seed globular. 



A tree, of which little is known, found on the eastern part of 

 New Holland. 



No. 11, Podocarpus elongata, L'Heritier, the Elongated 

 Podocarpus. 

 Syn. Podocarpus pruinosa, 3Ieyer. 



„ linearis. Van Houtte. 



„ mucronata, Hort. 



Taxus elongata, Solander. 



„ capensis, Lamarck. 



Podocarpus Meyeriana, Endlicher. 



Leaves, linear, or oblong-lanceolate, straight, rarely falcate, 

 attenuated, stifi", tolerably thick, and rather smooth at the edges ; 

 from one and a quarter to one inch and three quarters 

 long, and two lines broad, of a dark green or glaucous blue 

 colour, with a rib along the upper surface, a little elevated, but 

 hardly visible on the under side, sessile, or regularly tapering 

 to a short footstalk at the base, very bluntly and regularly 

 rounded on the top, and terminating in a short mucro ; some- 

 times a little pointed or obtuse, but frequently wanting. 



