42 A HANDBOOK OF CONIFER^E 



Var. sulcatus, Pilger. 



Leaves with a well marked furrow on the ujjper side. 

 Native of Guadeloupe. 



P. coriaceus is found in the mountain forests of New Grenada, 

 Colombia, Venezuela, and the West Indies. The timber is suitable 

 for general joinery and carpentry, 



Podocarpus costalis, C. Presl. (Eupodocarpus). 



A tree with dense branches. Leaves |-lf in. long and up to 

 I in. wide, thick, leathery, narrowing at the apex to a short point, 

 or sometimes with a rounded apex ; stalls about \ in. long. 

 Seed elliptical, about | in. long, on a fleshy receptacle. 



Closely alUed to P. Pilgeri and a native of the Philippine 

 Islands. 



Podocarpus curvifolius, Carrie re ^ (Eupodocarpus). 



Podocai-jxis antarctica, Van Houtte ; P. Humboldtii, Hort. 



A large but little-known tree, native of the Andes of Chile and 

 Patagonia. Leaves ovate or oblong, shortly stalked, 2-5 in. long, 

 leathery, flat, shining and smooth above, margins thickened, 

 apex blunt. 



Podocarpus cuspidatus, Endlicher^ (Nageia). 



Nageia cuspidata, Gordon. 



A small tree with opposite, sub-opposite, or sometimes defin- 

 itely alternate leaves, l|-3 in. long and 1^1 in. wide, elliptic, deep 

 green above, paler beneath, shortly stalked, usually narrowed 

 abruptly to an apical point. 



A native of Japan and apparently closely related to P. Nageia, 

 but we have seen no living specimens. 



Podocarpus dacrydioides, A. Richard (Dacrycarpus). 

 Kahikatea. 



Podocarpus thujoides, R. BrowTi ; Dacrydiiom excelsixm, A. Cunning- 

 ham ; D. ferrugineiun, Van Houtte [not D. Don] ; Nageia excelsa, O. 

 Kuntze ; Rimu ; White Pine. 



A tree 50-150 ft. high with a girth of 6-12 feet. Trunk usually 

 straight with little taper and clear of branches for a considerable 

 height. Bark thin, greyish-brown. Branchlets fine, drooping. 

 Foliage of two kinds : on young trees flat, soft, \-\ in. long, 

 bronze or bronzy -green, pointed, arranged in a single row on 

 each side of the shoot ; on older trees scale-like, iV-i in. long, 

 spirally arranged, closely or loosely overlapping, in some cases 

 resembling the foliage of a Cwpressus, usually pointed and in- 

 curved, green or bronzy-green ; an intermixing of shoots with both 



^ConiJ. ed. i, 450 (1855). ^ Syn. Conif. 207 (1847). 



