274 PODOCABPUS. 



Branches, opposite, or in whorls, upper ones ascending, lower 

 ones sometimes deflected, and spreading ; branchlets, short, and 

 slightly angular. Male flowers, cylindrical, with numerous 

 spirally imbricated anthers. Peduncles, axillary, solitary, and 

 from four to five lines long, terminated by a much shorter re- 

 ceptacle ; receptacle, frequently fleshy, thick, oblique, slightly 

 bifid on the top, and carrying an oval or globular seed about 

 the size of a gooseberry, which is -marbled on the outside. 



A large tree, covered with a greyish brown bark when old, 

 and glaucous on the young shoots ; found at the Cape of Good 

 Hope, and in Abyssinia, on the mountains in the province of 

 Goodjam, at an elevation of 6,000 feet, where it is called ' Sigha' 

 by the people. It is rather tender. 



No. 12. PoDOCARPUS Endlicherianus, Carriere, Endlicher's 



Podocarpus. 

 Syn. Podocarpus nobilis, Hort. 



Leaves, alternate, closely arranged on the branches, some- 

 what two-rowed, straight, or very slightly falcate, undulated, 

 and not thickened in the margins on the adult trees ; those on 

 the branchlets are almost oval, or elliptic, with several leaves in a 

 whorl, more rounded at both extremities, and much shorter ; 

 from four to seven inches long, and from six to eight lines 

 broad, pale green on both sides, but frequently much yellower 

 on the under one, and with short stout footstalks. Branches, 

 mostly in whorls of three, (very rarely scattered), ascending, 

 and little divided ; branchlets, very short, stout, and covered 

 with a yellowish bark. Fruit, unknown. 



A tall tree, covered with a yellowish brown bark, smooth at 

 first, but afterwards much wrinkled when old, and of which 

 little is known, except that it is a very handsome ahd robust 

 kind, remarkable for its large ample foliage. It is supposed to 

 come from the northern parts of India, and most probably from 

 Nepal. 



