PODOCARPUS. 287 



pointed, one-nerved, alternate, and mucrouate. Flower-spikes, 

 short, axillary, abortional, and single-fruited. Seeds, globidar, 

 tapering to the base, and without the fleshy receptacle. 



A species of which little seems to be known, and said to be 

 found at the Cape of Good Hope by Professor Thunberg. 



No. 38. PoDOCARPUS FERRUGiNEA, Don, the Rusty-coloured 



Podocarpus. 



Leaves, in two rows, narrow, linear, somewhat falcate, very 

 dense, and acute-pointed, from three-quarters to one inch and a 

 quarter long, and one line broad ; those on the branches and 

 larger branchlets needle or awl- shaped, scale-formed, and dis- 

 posed all round, somewhat depressed, and, like the others, of a 

 brownish tint ; rib very prominent on the upper part, but very 

 slightly so on the under one, and of a rusty-brown colour, 

 tapering to a fine acute point, sometimes, but very rarely, to an 

 obtuse one. Branches, spreading, frequently alternate, lateral 

 ones and branchlets two-rowed, slender, spreading, horizontal, 

 or bent downwards, and covered with a reddish-brown bark. 

 Male catkins, cylindrical, or oblong, axillary, and solitary ; 

 female flower-spikes, one-flowered, axillary, or erect on the 

 ends of the branchlets, with numerous bracteas. Fruit, oval or 

 globular, about the size of a hazel-nut, of a fine red colour, and 

 covered when ripe with a glaucous powder, soft, and with the 

 odour of turpentine. 



A tree, from forty to sixty feet high, and three feet in diameter, 

 found on the northern island of New Zealand, where it is called 

 Miro, or Mairo, by the New Zealanders. Timber, durable, and 

 of a fine red tint. 



It is not hardy. 



No. 39. Podocarpus spicata, R. Brown, the Spike- flowered 



Podocarpus. 

 Syn. Dacrydium Mai, Cunningham. 

 „ „ taxifolium. Banks. 



„ „ Mayi, Van Houtte. 



Leaves, mostly in two rows, but sometimes those on the larger 



