TAXACEAE 



KEY TO THE JAPANESE GENERA 

 Subfam. PODOCARPEAE 



Leaves strap-shaped, linear, or lance-shaped to ovate; male aments cylindrical, in threes; 

 fruit peduncled, drupaceous; seed inverted Podocabpus. 



Subfam. TAXEAE 



Leaves linear; male aments globose; seed erect. 

 Fruit drupe-like, maturing in two seasons. 



Leaves not pungent, midrib prominent on upper side; fruit long-peduncled. 



Cephalotaxus. 

 Leaves pungent, midrib not showing on upper side; fruit sessile or subsessile. 



Toereya. 

 Fruit nut-like, maturing in one season, seated within a fleshy, scarlet aril . . Taxus. 



Subfam. PODOCARPEAE Reichb. 

 PODOCARPUS L'Herit. 



A genus of about 60 species confined mainly to the Southern Hemisphere and 

 especially to Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand. Some 13 species are found 

 in South America and the West Indies; eight are known from Africa and two from 

 India. In Japan two species are indigenous and are also found in the Liukiu 

 Islands and in Formosa. 



KEY TO THE JAPANESE SPECIES 



Leaves alternate or subopposite, strap-shaped or linear, with a prominent midrib; fruit 

 seated on a fleshy purple-colored receptacle P. macrophyllus. 



Leaves opposite or subopposite, lanceolate to ovate, without a midrib; fruit globose, 

 subtended by a few scaly bracteoles P. nagi. 



PODOCARPUS MACROPHYLLUS D.Don 



Podocarpus macrophyllus D. Don in Lambert, Descr. Pinus, II. 22 (1824) ; ed. 

 minor, II. 143 (1832). Siebold & Zuccarini in Abh. Akad. Munch. IV. pt. 3, 232 

 (Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. 108) (1846). Endlicher, Syn. Conif. 216 (1847). Miquel 

 in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. III. 168 (1867); Prol. Fl. Jap. 332 (1867); in Siebold & 

 Zuccarini, Fl. Jap. II. 70, t. 133 (1870). Franchet & Savatier, Enum. PI. Jap. 

 I. 475 (1875). Masters in Jour. Linn. Soc. XVIII. 501 (1881). Sargent, 

 Forest Fl. Jap. 77 (1894). Shirasawa, Icon. Ess. For. Jap. I. 31, t. 13, fig. 13-25 

 (1900) . Kent in Veitch, Man. Conif. ed. 2, 150 (1900) . Matsumura in Tokyo Bot. 

 Mag. XV. 139 (1901); Ind. PI. Jap. II. pt. 1, 15 (1905). Pilger in Engler, Pflan- 

 zenr. IV.-5, 79 (Taxaceae) (1903). Silva Tarouca, Uns. Freiland-Nadelh. 260, 

 fig. 271 (1913). 



Taxus macrophylla Thunberg, Fl. Jap. 276 (1784). Banks, Icon. Kaempfer, t. 24 

 (1791). 



