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with tlic bark are said to produce leather which is pecuHarly 

 adapted for certain shades of kid gloves. 



Plants of this species are growing out of doors in Cornwall, 

 there being a fine one at Ludgvan Rectory. The young cladodes 

 are of a pleasing reddish-brown colour. 



Kirk, loc. cit, 9. 



PODOCARPUS, L'Heritier. 

 Yellow Woods. 



Nagcia, Caertncr. 



Evergreen trees and shrubs yielding valuable timber, largely 

 confined to the mountain forests of warm temperate and sub- 

 tropical regions of the Southern hemisphere, with some occurring 

 in Japan, China, India, the Malay States, and the Philippine 

 Islands. Branches whorled or irregular. Leaves very variable, 

 dense or distant on the branches, spirally arranged, rarely opposite 

 or sub-opposite in two close ranks, as in Abies, or crowded and 

 overlapping ; varying in size from mere scale -lil^e bodies to a 

 length of 12 in. and a breadth of 2 in., thin and fragile, or thick 

 and leathery with recurved margins ; young leaves often rose or 

 reddish in colour. Male and female flowers usually on different 

 trees. Hale flowers axillary or, rarely, terminal, forming dense, 

 narrow, cylindrical catkins. Female flowers stalked or sessile, 

 axillary or terminal with usually 2-4 (occasionally more) scales, 

 one or two of which bear in their axils a fertile scale folded over and 

 united to an inverted ovule ; usually one only matures, the sterile 

 scales often fusing with the upper part of the stalk and developing 

 a swollen, fleshy, brightly coloured, edible receptacle on which 

 the seed is borne. The outer seed-coat is skinny or fleshy, the 

 inner shell woody. 



The genus includes about 65 species and is divided into 

 the following five sections : — 



1. Dacrycarpus, Endlicher. — Leaves variable in size and 

 shape, thin, flat, soft, ^-| in. long, usually two-ranked on young 

 plants ; tlu^ee-sided, needle-like and overlapping on mature 

 trees, but shoots with both kinds of leaves often mixed. Seed 

 solitary, terminal on a fleshy receptacle. 



2. Microcarpus, Pilger. — Leaves scale-like, overlapping, the 

 base clasping the branchlet. Seed solitary, terminal, on short 

 drooping branchlets : receptacle not fleshy. 



3. Nageia, Endlicher. — Leaves opposite or sub-opposite, 

 many-nerved, wide in comparison to length. Seed axillary, 

 round ; receptacle fleshy or dry. Male flowers branched. 



4. Stachycarpus, Endlicher. — Zeares sub-opposite, opposite, 

 alternate or whorled, narrow in comparison to length, one- 



