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Podocarpus imbricatus, Blume (Dacrycarpus). 



Podocarpus cupressina, R. Brown ; P. Horsfieldii, Wallich ; Taxo- 



dium Horsfieldii, Knight ; Glyptostrobus Horsfieldii, Knight. 



A tree 50-80 ft. high or occasionally taller, with a trunk 

 10-15 ft. in girth (but sometimes reduced to a bush), variable in 

 habit but often with pendulous, spreading branches and long, 

 slender, whip -like branchlets. Leaves of two kinds. Those of 

 young or vigorous trees |— | in. long, flat, soft, and arranged in 

 two more or less opposite ranks ; on branches of old trees closely 

 overlapping, cupressus-like, the points incurved like miniature 

 leaves of Cryptomeria japonica. Both types of leaves may appear 

 on the same tree, but in such cases those of the juvenile state are 

 smaller than those on young, vigorous plants. Seed solitary, 

 terminal, borne on a slightly thickened, fleshy receptacle. 



Native of British N. Borneo, Burma, Java, and the Phihppine 

 Islands, where it is an important timber tree. 



Pilger records a variety Cumingii {P. Cumingii, Parlatore), 

 but Foxworthy,^ who made a careful study of the Philippine 

 species, does not consider it distinct from the type. 



Podocarpus Ladei, Bailey - (Stachycarpus). 



A tall, erect tree with a trunk up to 18 ft. in girth covered 

 with thin, reddish-brown, smoothish bark which is shed in papery 

 scales. Leaves usually sessile, about \ in. long and -\^~\ in. wide, 

 both surfaces green, apex blunt. Seed oval, solitary, pointed, 

 about f in. long and \ in. wide, purple with a glaucous bloom. 



This species, which is closely allied to P. Jerruginea, was 

 found in the neighbourhood of Port Douglas by Mr. F. W. H. 

 Lade in 1905. 



It is described as a good timber tree of ornamental appearance. 



Podocarpus Lambertii, Klotzsch (Eupodocarpus). 

 A Brazihan tree with densely and spirally arranged, yew- 

 like leaves, which are |-1J in. long and iV in. wide, erect, sharp- 

 pointed, stalkless, or very shortly stalked. Seeds small with a 

 stalked and fleshy receptacle. 



Podocarpus latifolius, R. Brown ^ (Eupodocarpus). 

 Real Yellow Wood. 



Podocarpus Sweetii, C. Presl ; P. Thunbergii, Hooker ; P. Thunbergii, 

 var. latifolia, Sim ; Nageia latifolia, O. Kuntze ; Taxus latifolia, Thunberg. 

 Upright Yellow Wood. 



A tree up to 100 ft. high and 12 ft. in girth, averaging 60-70 



^PMl. Journ. ScL, Bot. vi, 157 (1911). 



2 Queensl. Agric. Journ. xv, 899 (1905). 



' Although P. Thunbergii is a better-known name in S. Africa, P. latifolius is 

 the older name for this species, and therefore supersedes P. Thunbergii. A note 

 on the nomenclature of this species appeared in the Kew Bulletin for 1916, p. 236. 



