PODOCARPUS. 277 



base, straight or falcate, without any footstalks, slender, and 

 loosely scattered, smooth, or nearly so, on the upper surface, and 

 flat, from one inch and a quarter to one inch and three-quarters 

 long, and two lines broad. Male catkins, short, in fascicules, 

 on axillary footstalks, scaly at the base, footstalks of the fruit 

 much longer than those of the receptacle, which is one-fruited. 

 Fruit, globular or oblong, shining, small, and about one quarter 

 of an inch long. 



A robust tree, found on the mountains of Brazil. 



No. 18. PoDOCARPUs Lawrencii, Hooker^ Lawrence's 

 Podocarpus. 



Leaves, somewhat in two rows, lax, spreading, linear, narrow, 

 and tapering to both ends, of a pale-green colour above, and 

 glaucous below, furnished with a very sharp, rigid point. 

 P>ranches, slender. Flowers and fruit unknown.] 



A small tree, found by Gunn in Tasmania, of which little 

 further is known. 



No. 19. Podocarpus leptostachya, Blume, the Slender- 

 spiked Podocarpus. 



Leaves, somewhat in whorls, linear-lanceolate, alternate, 

 straight, or sometimes slightly falcate, leathery, and closely 

 placed on the shoots, from two to five inches long, and from 

 three to six lines broad, tolerably thick, acute, with a pungent 

 point, flat, shining, and tapering to the base, which is frequently 

 a little twisted, of a dull green colour on the upper surface, but 

 much paler below. Branches and branchlets much divided, 

 somewhat in whorls, cylindrical, and with the stem and prin- 

 cipal branches covered with a rough bark, full of cracks. Male 

 catkins sometimes solitary, or in pairs, or in threes, furnished 

 at the base with thin, shrivelled scales, two or three in number, 

 and more or less deciduous. Fruit unknoAvn. 



A tree fifty or sixty feet high, found on the mountains in the 

 Island of Borneo. 



