TAXACEAE. PODOCARPUS NAGI 5 



Podocarpus japonica Siebold in Jaarb. Nederl. Maatsch. Aanmoed. Tuinb. 1844, 35 



(Naaml.). 

 Podocarpus Makoyi Blume, Rumph. III. 215 (1847). 

 Podocarpus Vrieseana Hort. ex Parlatore in De Candolle, Prodr. XVI. pt. 2, 516 



(as a synonym) (1868). 

 Podocarpus Miquelia Hort. ex Parlatore 1. c. (as a synonym) (1868). 

 Podocarpus macrophyllus, subsp. maki Pilger in Engler, Pflanzenr. IV.-5, 80 (Taxa- 



ceae) (1903). Matsumura, Ind. PL Jap. II. pt. 1, 16 (1905). 



This variety is distinguished by its small, densely crowded, linear-lanceolate 

 leaves and by its erect or ascending-spreading branches. As usually seen in gardens 

 and temple grounds in Japan it is a low bush, but when allowed to grow freely it 

 forms a small bushy tree and in appearance is not so distinct from the type species. 

 This Maki is known only as a cultivated plant, but as such is plentiful in the 

 warmer parts of Japan and in China. According to Siebold it was brought to Europe 

 in 1800, and as we know from Forbes, it was introduced about 1830 into the 

 Woburn Pinetum. According to Roxburgh it was sent from China by William 

 Kerr to Calcutta in 1812. Roxburgh cites Lo-hon-tsong as the Chinese name for 

 this plant. In central and western China this name (Lo-han-sung, i. e. Lo-han's 

 Pine) is applied to Cephalotaxus Forlunei Hook. The variety maki is no more 

 hardy than the type and its real origin is unknown. The Japanese cultivate 

 variegated forms of this variety. Another variety of this species (var. appressus 

 Matsumura, Ind. PI. Jap. II. pt. 1, 16 [1905]), known as the Sekkwa-maki, is also 

 cultivated in Japan. This plant has even smaller leaves than has the var. maki, and 

 the branches spread horizontally and are often subpendulous. It is a low shrub and 

 was first described by Maximowicz as a species under the name of P. appressa 

 (in Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Petersburg, ser. 3, XV. 379 [1871]; in MSI. Biol. VII. 561 

 [1871]). 



PODOCARPUS NAGI Zoll. & Moritz. 



Plates I and II 



Podocarpus nagi Zollinger & Moritzi apud Zollinger, Syst. Verz. Ind. Arch. II. 

 82 (as a synonym) (1854). Makino in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XVII. 113 (1903). 

 Pilger in Engler, Pflanzenr. IV.-5, 60, t. 9, fig. c-e (Taxaceae) (1903). 



Myrica nagi Thunberg, Fl. Jap. 76 (1784). 



Nageia japonica Gaertner, Fruct. I. 191, t. 39, fig. 8 (1788). 



Podocarpus Nageia R. Brown apud Mirbel in Mim. Mus. Paris, XIII. 75 (1825). 



Siebold & Zuccarini in Abh. Akad. M'nch. IV. pt. 3, 233 (Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. 



109) (1846). Endlicher, Syn. Conif. 207 (1847). Zollinger, Syst. Verz. Ind. 



Arch. II. 82 (1854). Miquel in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. III. 168 (1867); Prol.Fl. 



Jap. 332 (1867); in Siebold & Zuccarini, Fl. Jap. II. 71, t. 135 (1870). Franchet 



& Savatier, Enum. PI. Jap. I. 474 (1875). Masters in Jour. Linn. Soc. XVIII. 



501 (1881). Sargent, Forest Fl. Jap. 77 (1894). Henry in Trans. Asiat. Soc. 



Jap. XXIV. suppl. 91 (List PI. Formos.) (1896). Shirasawa, Icon. Ess. For. 



Jap. 1. 30, 1. 13, fig. 1-12 (1900). Kent in Veitch, Man. Conif. ed. 2, 151 (1900). 



Matsumura in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XV. 139 (1901); Ind. PL Jap. II. pt. 1, 16 (1905). 

 Dammara Veitchii Henkel & Hochstetter, Syn. Nadelh. 216 (1865). 

 Podocarpus Japonica Nelson, Pinac. 155 (not Siebold) (1866). 

 Agathis Dammara Engler in Bot. Jahrb. VI. 49 (not Richard) (1885). 

 Nageia Nagi Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL II. 798 (1891). 



