PODOCARPUS. 281 



A tufted tree, with close branches, and covered with a yellow- 

 ish brown bark ; found on the Mountains of Chili. 

 It is not hardy. 



No. 26. PoDOCARPUs POLYSTACHYA, jR. BrowH, the Many- 

 spiked Podocarpus. 



Leaves, lanceolate, sharp-pointed, and curved at the margins. 

 Male flowers, axillary, somewhat in threes, and provided at the 

 base with a scale-formed involucre. Fruit, on axillary foot- 

 stalks, and solitary. 



A large tree, with a straight stem and very branching ample 

 head; found at Sincapore, and on the Prince of Wales Island, 

 where it is called the Wax-Dammara. This species is very 

 like Podocarpus bracteata, but differs in having the leaves and 

 catkins much shorter but stouter, and in the receptacle being 

 much thicker, and the fruit more globular. 



No. 27. Podocarpus Purdteana, Hooker, Purdie's Jamaica 



Podocarpus. 



Syn. Podocarpus Jamaicaensis, Hort. 



Leaves, elliptic, or oblong-lanceolate, thick, leathery, very 

 smooth, and shining on the upper surface, flat, straight, very 

 rarely falcate, and slightly recurved on the margins ; from three 

 to five inches long, and from three quarters of an inch to one 

 inch broad, of a bright green, regularly tapering into a short 

 stout footstalk at the base, and from the middle of the leaf on 

 each side to the point, which is terminated by a stout, short 

 mostly black, obtuse point, but sometimes variable, those of the 

 young plants being acute and spiny. Branches, spreadino-, 

 horizontal, and marked by the scars caused by the falling off" of 

 the old leaves. Fruit, with the footstalks much shorter than 

 the receptacle, which is bifid, and one-fruited. Seeds, some- 

 what globose, terminating on the upper part in an oblique little 

 flexible point. 



A large tree, growing upwards of 100 feet high, found on the 

 eastern side of the Island of Jamaica, at an elevation of from 

 2,500 to 3,500 feet. 



It is verv tender. 



