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No, 13. PoDOCARPUS ENsiFOLiA, R. BrowH, the Sword-leaved 



Podocarpus. 

 Syn. Podocarpus acicularis. Van Houtte. 



Leaves, linear, spreading, long, narrow, thick, and regularly- 

 tapering to both ends, with a single nerve slightly elevated 

 along the middle, and terminating in a slender acute point at 

 the apex ; from two to three inches long and from one to two 

 lines broad. Male flowers, solitary, cylindrical, obtuse, closely 

 placed on the axillary branchlets, and forming loose taper 

 bunches on the terminal branches, accompanied by scale-like 

 leaves of variable sizes. Fruit, unknown. 



A small tree, found in Tasmania and the eastern parts of 

 New Holland. 



No. 14. Podocarpus Japonica, Siebold, the Japan Podocarpus. 

 Syn. Podocarpus lanceolata, Hort. 



Leaves, alternate, flat, linear-lanceolate, elongated, obtuse- 

 pointed, thick, leathery, and stiff"; from four to eight inches 

 long, and about half an inch wide, with an elevated rib, almost 

 acute along the upper surface, but rounded on the under one, 

 and tapering into a long slender point at the apex, and into a 

 short stout footstalk at the base. 



A small tree, found plentiful in Japan by Dr. Siebold. 



No. 15. Podocarpus Koraiana, Siebold, the Corean Podo- 

 carpus. 

 Syn. Cephalotaxus Koraiana, Hort. 

 „ Taxus japonica, Loddiges. 



Leaves, regularly linear, somewhat falcate, alternate, or nearly 

 spiral by their closeness along the shoots, leathery, stiff", revo- 

 lute, and terminating in rather an obtuse end, furnished with a 

 hard, acute point, from one inch and a quarter to two inches and 

 a quarter long, and one line and a half broad, without, or on very 

 short footstalks, of a deep glossy green, with a narrow, acute 

 rib along the middle, on the upper surface, and glaucous on the 

 under side, except on the centre nerve and raised margins, 



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