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base. It closely resembles C. Mannii, but is distinguishable by 

 the white under-surfaco of the leaves. 



It is not known to possess any economic properties. 



Fl. Brit. India, V, 648 (1888). 



Cephalotaxus Mannii, Hooker.^ 



A small tree found in the Khasia Mountains, India, closely 

 resembling C. Forfunei in habit, but with smaller, narrower leaves 

 which are green, not white, below. Seeds, 3-4 on a common stalk, 

 each about 1 1 in. long, obovoid with a short apical point, narrowed 

 at the base. 



Cephalotaxus Oliveri, Masters. 



A shrub with flat, rigid, spreading branches, the leaves hori- 

 zontal, arranged in two opposite ranks closely set on the brancli- 

 lets and curving slightly upwards, |-1 in. long, J-^ in. wide, 

 rounded or truncate at the base, the apex abruptly pointed, dark 

 green above, paler beneath, with two glaucous bands of stomata. 

 Seed egg-shaped, 1;^ in. long, on a stalk | in. long. 



The crowded, regularly two-ranked, shortly pointed leaves 

 make this an easily recognized species. 



It is common in rocky places in W. Hupeh and Szechuen, 

 China, up to nearly 2,000 ft. altitude, and was discovered on Mount 

 Omei byFaber in 1900. It has since been introduced by Wilson, 

 but we have seen no cultivated specimens. 



Cfard. Chron. April, 1903, p. 227 ; PI. Wils. ii, 6 (1914). 



DACRYDIUM, Solander. 



A genus of evergreen trees allied to Podocarpus, including 

 about sixteen species, chiefly natives of New Zealand, but also 

 occurring in the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Australia, Tasmania, 

 New Caledonia, and Chile. Leaves of adult trees, small, scale-like, 

 closely overlapping ; of juvenile trees or the lower branches of 

 older ones, linear or awl-shaped. Male and female flowers on 

 different trees, rarely on the same tree. Male floivers in spikes in 

 the axils of the upper leaves, oblong or cylindric with sessile, 

 two-celled anthers ; pollen cells winged. Female floivers at or 

 near the tips of the branchlets consisting of a few small scales, 

 one or several bearing a solitary reversed ovule seated in a cup- 

 shaped aril. Seeds ovoid, nut-like, ultimately more or less 

 horizontal. 



Wood yellow or reddish in colour, sometimes handsomely 

 figured, usually very resinous and durable. It is used for building 

 purposes, furniture, and other work. 



Few species have been introduced to the British Isles, and 



^Fl. Brit. India, V, 647 (1888). 



