PODOCARPUS. 285 



A large evergreen tree, found at the Cape of Good Hope, 

 where the colonists call it ' Geelhout ' (yellow wood). 

 It is not hardy. 



No. So. PoDOCARPUS ToTARA, Dou, the Totarra Pine. 

 Syn. Podocarpus pungens, Van Houtte. 

 „ „ Totarra, Hort. 



LeaveSj spreading in all directions, alternate, distant, linear- 

 lanceolate, pungent, rigid, and very sharp pointed, slightly 

 tapering to the base, of a yellowish-green colour on the upper 

 surface, very pale and glaucous below, with a single nerve, 

 very little projecting along the middle, and slightly bent round 

 the margins, from three-quarters to one inch and a half long, 

 and about one line broad. Branches, slender, rounded, and 

 long ; branchlets, forked, but sometimes in threes, twiggy, 

 rounded, and of a pale-yellowish-green colour ; male and 

 female on separate plants ; male flowers, solitary, axillary, 

 without footstalks, cylindrical, and longer than the leaves ; 

 female ones on solitary footstalks, with one or two flowers on 

 each axillary, and hardly one line long, thickening into a very 

 ample, fleshy receptacle. Seeds, when young, oblong ; when 

 mature, oval and solitary, very rarely in twos on the same 

 footstalk. 



A tall tree, growing from eighty to ninety feet high, and 

 twenty feet in circumference, found on the northern island of 

 New Zealand, where it is called * Totarra ' by the natives. 



Timber, excellent, and of a reddish colour. 



It is nearly hardy. 



Section 11. STACHYCARPUS, Endlicher, or the Spike- 

 fruited Podocarpus. 



Flowers, in spikes, provided with bracts, and fi'equently all 

 abortive except the upper ones. 

 Fltshy receptacle wanting. 



