282 PODOCARPUS. 



No. 28. PoDOCARPUS RiGiDA, Klotzsch, the Rigid Podocarpus. 

 Syn. Podocarpus glomerata, Don. 



Leaves, linear-lanceolate, stiff, very sharp-pointed, alternate, 

 flat, one-nerved, attenuated at the base, shining, and smooth on 

 both surfaces ; from one to one inch and three quarters long, 

 and from one to two lines broad. Branches, numerous, cylin- 

 drical, leafy, and covered with a yellowish brown smooth bark. 

 Male catkins, short, three quarters of an inch long, cylindrical, 

 united in a fascicle of five or six on an axillary footstalk. Fruit, 

 unknown. 



A tree, found in the neighbourhood of * Panao,' in Peru. 



No. 29. Podocarpus Rtjmphii, Blume, Rumphius's Podocarpus. 

 Syn. Lignum emanum, Rumphius. 



Leaves, sometimes in whorls of from three to four on the 

 young shoots, but scattered, or somewhat in two rows on the 

 more adult trees, linear-lanceolate, spreading, acute-pointed, 

 very rarely blunt at the ends, straight, or somewhat falcate, 

 leathery, and on very short footstalks ; from five to nine inches 

 long, and from three quarters of an inch to one inch broad, with 

 an acute rib on the under side, but hardly prominent, and some- 

 what keeled above, and of a bright shining green on the upper 

 surface. Branches, long and smooth ; buds, small, ovate, and 

 covered with scales ; footstalks, axillary, solitary, and about 

 one inch long, furnished on the top with from one to three 

 flowers ; receptacle, turban-shaped, obliquely truncated on the 

 ends, fleshy, of a dark violet colour, and containing one, but 

 sometimes two seeds. Fruit, elliptic, or somewhat globular, 

 covered when ripe with a glaucous bloom. 



A tall tree, growing from eighty to a hundred feet high, 

 with a straight stem, covered with a reddish brown bark, slightly 

 wrinkled, found in tlie most elevated forests in the Moluccas, 

 and New Guinea. 



No. 30. Podocarpus salicifolia, Klotzsch, the Willow-leaved 



Podocarpus. 



Leaves, somewhat falcate, very long, and tapering to the 

 point, leathery, stiff", of a pale green, and shining on the upper 



