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PART I 

 TAXACE.^ 



ACMOPYLE, Pilger.i 



A monotypic genus allied to Podocarpus and Dacrydium but 

 differing chiefly in its seed-characters. 



Acmopyle Pancheri, Pilger. 



Dacrydium Pancheri, Brongniard and Gria ; Podocarpus pectinata, 

 Pancher. 



An evergreen tree, 40-50 ft. high, or occasionally taller, with 

 erect branches. Leaves yew-like, stalkless, arranged in two 

 ranks, |-| in. long, tV-f in. wide, curved towards the pointed 

 apex, green, with irregular stomatic lines above and two broad, 

 glaucous, stomatic bands separated by the green midrib beneath. 

 Male catkins 1-3 together at the tips of branchlets, 1-H in. 

 long. Female flowers apparently composed of several bracts, all 

 except one sterile, and fused into a warty, fleshy receptacle 

 bearing a single seed. 



Native of New Caledonia, where it is abundant in coniferous 

 forests near the summit of Mount Mou.' It was introduced to 

 Kew in 1891 from the Botanic Garden, Sydney, but is not 

 hardy. 



AMENTOTAXUS, Pilger.^ 



A genus composed of one species found in Hong Kong, 

 U Formosa, and W. China, allied to Podocarpus and Cephalotaxus, 

 from which it chiefly differs in its slender, branched, pendu- 

 lous male catkins and solitary ovule borne in the axil of a 

 ^ branchlet. 



Amentotaxus argotaenia, Pilger. 



Podocarpu8 argotaenia, Hance ; P. insignia, Hemsley ; Cephalotaxus 

 argotaenia, Pilger.* 



An evergreen bush, 6-10 ft. high, with the spreading habit of 

 a Cephalotaxus. Leaves opposite, 1-5 in. long, up to J in. wide, 

 thick, leathery, margins slightly recurved, apex a short, sharp 



1 Das Pflanz. IV, 5, Taxaceae (1903). 



* Compton, Jonm. Linn. Soc. XLV, 42G(1922); Bot. Mag. t. 7854 (1902). 

 » Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 54, 41 (1916). 



* Plant. Wils. ii, 6, 1914. 



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