286 PODOCARPUS. 



Leaves, alternate, or more frequently in two rows, linear, and 

 one-nerved. 



All trees or bushes, natives of the Cape of Good Hope, New 

 Zealand, and the temperate parts of South America. 



No. SQ. PoDOCARPUs Andina, Pcsppig, the Andes Po- 

 docarpus. 

 Syn. Podocarpus spicata, Pceppig, not Brown. 

 „ (?) Taxus spicata, Domhey. 



Leaves, regularly linear, and tapering to both ends, either 

 scattered or two- rowed along the branchlets, those on the lower 

 parts being scattered, while those on the upper ones are mostly 

 in two rows, with very short footstalks, from three-quarters to 

 one inch and a quarter long, and about one line and a half 

 broad, of a dark glossy green colour, more or less rusty on the 

 edges, and delicately freckled on the upper surface, without 

 any rib, and glaucous below, leathery, stiff, very smooth, and 

 dense. Branches, numerous ; branchlets, short, stout, spread- 

 ing, scattered, but frequently alternate and angular near the 

 top. Flower-spike, axillary and alternate ; peduncle, two or 

 three-flowered, but one-fruited from abortion ; bracts, small 

 and sessile ; receptacle, oval, on the end of a long neck, ob- 

 scurely three-lobed, and oblique, smooth, plump, purple, and 

 persistent after the fruit is ripe. Fruit, globular, smooth, 

 fleshy, succulent, without any footstalk, and about the size of a 

 common cherry. Seeds, with a hard, bony shell. 



A small tree, growing from ten to twenty feet high, with a 

 cylindrical stem, covered with a smooth, reddish-brown bark, 

 found in the shaded valleys of Quillai Leuvu, in the neighbour- 

 hood of Antuco, on the colder alpine regions of South Chili. 



Timber, hard and yellow. 



Probably quite hardy. 



No. 37. Podocarpus falcata, R. Brown, the Sickle-leaved 



Podocarpus. 



Syn. Taxus falcata, Thunberg. 



Leaves, somewhat in two rows, linear subfalcate, acute- 



