338 cxxix. PINACE-E (Stapf). [Jumperm, 



hrandi. Uganda : Mau Escarpment, 6000-8000 ft., Scott Elliot, (i789 ! Mau 

 Plateau, Whytc ! Nancli, 7000-8000 ft., Scott Elliot, (3976 ! Eldama Ravine, 

 7()00 ft., Whytc ! Nairwasha, 7000 ft., Scott Elliot, 7043 ! Kedong Escarp- 

 ment, -Sc^^er. British East Africa : Lcikipia, 6000-8000 ft., forming forests 

 at 8000 ft., Thomson\ foot of Aberdare Range, Hohnel, 56, 115; Kikuyu, 

 Whyte ! Mount Kenia, Hohnel, 46, 50, 51 ; Hvtchins ! and without precise 

 locality, Scott Elliot, 307 ! Powell ! 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa : Usambara ; Mbalu, up to 6000 ft., 

 forming extensive forests, Mlalo, Hoist, 3779 ! Heboma, Hoist, 2597 ! without 

 precise locality, Buchwald, 449 ! Kilimanjaro above Uesri, 6600 ft., Volkens ! 

 Mawcnzi summit, 8600 ft., Volkens. Schira, 10,000 ft., Volkens. Kinga 

 Mountains; Kipcngere ridge, 8200 ft., Goetze. Nyasaland : Nyika plateau, 

 ir 15' S. lat., 33° 40' E. long.. Major Pearce ! 



Also indicated from Yemen, Jebel 8abor above Taiz (Botta). 



A very valuable timber tree (see Hutchins, I.e.). Vernacular names : Ssahudi 

 (Tigre) ; Mutarakwe (Kikuyu) ; Ol-Daragwe (Masai) ; Deiyib (Somali). 



'I'he Soraaliland specimens have been included here with some reluctance. 

 'J'he only adult samples seen by me are some branches of a female tree collected 

 by Drake-Brockman with a few strobiles in the pollination stage and a few 

 galbules. The branchlets are stouter -than in the remainder of the material 

 examined which is remarkably uniform although it is derived from localities 

 spread over an enormous area, and when the scale-leaves are more appressedand 

 less convex they approach frequently the more or less cylindric sha-pe (with 

 straight contours) of the branchlets of J. polycarpos, C. Koch (J. macropoda, 

 Boiss. ; see Medwedeff, Trees and Shrubs Caucas. 41, with plate) ; finally the 

 galbules are rather larger than in typical J. procera. The trees are described 

 as tall (Phillips) and certainly appear so in Drakc-Brockman's photograph, 

 but the habit is different from that described as characteristic of J. procera, the 

 branching beginning low down, as is usual in J. poly car i)Os, and forming a wide 

 crown. The nearest locality where J. polycarpos occui-s is J(?bel Akbar above 

 Maskat whence it ranges to Asia Minor, the Eastern Caucasus, 1'urkestan and the 

 Himalayas. 



Okdkr CXXIXa. TAXACEiE. 



(By 0. Staff.) 



Dia3cious, very rarely monoecious. Male cones mostly catkin- 

 like, sometimes externally only slightly differentiated from the 

 vegetative branches, simple or compound, terminal or axillary, 

 solitary or fascicled, bracteate or ebracteate at the base ; fertile 

 scales bearing basi-dorsally 2-8 pollen-sacs, squamiform or more or 

 less differentiated into a claw or stalk and blade, the latter large and 

 projecting beyond the pollen-sacs or transverse to the stalk (peltate) 

 or very much reduced, when the scales with their pollen-sacs assume 

 the appearance of typical angiospermous stamens : pollen-grains with 

 or without vesicular appendages. Female cones usually much reduced, 

 terminal or axillary ; lower scales barren, the upper or only the 

 uppermost fertile, always simple, each bearing 1 (very rarely 2) ovule, 



