^76 FODOCARPUS. 



which are of a bright glossy green, and all terminating at the 

 apex in a short spiny point, more or less acute. Buds, covered 

 with numerous persistent, oval, imbricated scales, keeled on the 

 back, and pointed. Branches, strictly erect, twiggy, stiff, and 

 thinly furnished with laterals ; branchlets very short, and with 

 the branches channelled along their surface by the long decur- 

 rent base of the leaves, which, after they fall off, cause the 

 branches and stems to become more or less tuberculated along 

 the surface. Fruit unknown. 



A small fastigiate bush, full of erect branches, thickly clothed 

 with leaves, and not growing more than two or three feet high, 

 found on the Chinese peninsula of Corea, and in Japan, where 

 it is abundantly grown in their town gardens, and found wild 

 on the mountains of Nagasaki- 

 It is quite hardy, and a very desirable little evergreen for 

 small gardens. 



No. 16. PoDOCARPUs LJETA, Hoihrenk, the Red-nerved 

 Podocarpus. 



Leaves, spreading out, or deflected, linear- falcate, sessile, or 

 tapering to a very short footstalk, from one inch and a half to one 

 inch and three-quarters long, and a quarter of an inch wide, 

 with a sharp, rigid mucro at the point, slightly thickened and 

 convex on the upper surface, with a slight furrow, or little 

 concave glaucous bands on the under part, on each side, 

 of a reddish mid-rib. Branches, verticillate, very rarely alter- 

 nate, spread out, or declining, and not numerous or branching. 

 Branchlets, few in number, spreading, opposite, or in threes, 

 very rarely scattered singly, but slightly channelled. Fruit 

 unknown. 



A tall tree, with a straight cylindrical stem, found on the 

 east coast of New Holland. 



No. 17. Podocarpus Lamberti, Klotzschy Lambert's Podo- 

 carpus. 



. Leaves, regularly linear, sharp-pointed, and tapering to the 



