290 PODOCARPUS. 



three to eight lines long, and from one half to three quarters 

 of a line broad, of a bright glossy green colour on both 

 faces, very slender, soft, slightly concave, tapering to each 

 end, but least to the base, and very acute at the point on 

 the adult ones. Branches, slender, reflected, or pendant, 

 but sometimes with the upper ones ascending, regularly 

 divided, very numerous, and covered, with scale-formed leaves 

 of various lengths, closely adhering at the base ; lateral ones 

 much divided, very slender, alternate, in two rows, and more 

 or less distant; branchlets, very short, slender, two-rowed, 

 and thickly covered with spreading leaves, until they almost 

 touch each other. Fruit, solitary, terminal, on short pendant 

 branchlets, surrounded by leaves, a little longer, and more 

 spreading than the others ; receptacle, fleshy, almost the length 

 of the fruit, and a little thickened. 



A fine tall tree, growing 180 feet high, well furnished with 

 spreading branches, clothed with vivid green foliage, found in 

 Java, the Pulo-Penang, and the Philippine Islands, where the 

 natives call it * Kimerak.' 



It is quite tender. 



No. 42. PoDocARPUs DACRYOiDES, Richard, the Dacrydium- 

 like Podocarpus. 

 Syn. Dacrydium thuioides, Solander. 

 „ „ excelsum, Don. 



„ „ ferrugineum. Van Houtte. 



„ Podocarpus thuioides, R. Brown. 



Leaves, generally awl-shaped, decurrent, spiny-pointed, often 

 loosely imbricated, and from one to two lines long ; those on 

 the larger branches and lateral ones, scale-formed, scattered all 

 round, adhering at the base, more or less spreading, and very 

 acute-pointed, while those on the branchlets are flat, horizontal, 

 linear, curved backwards, sickle-shaped, and closely placed in 

 two rows ; from two to three lines long, and about one-third of 

 a line broad, and all more or less of a rusty brown or copper 

 colour, somewhat glaucous w^hen young. Branches, spreading, 

 or bent downwards, rarely ascending, very slender, long, and 



