S40 



cxxixa. taxace^ (Stapf) 



Receptacle ; the axis of the mature cone form 

 in^ a slightly thickened stalk bearing the avc.d. 

 Seed up to over 1 in. long ; woody inner layer of seed 

 shell 2-3^ lin. thick. 

 Seed globose or ellipsoid -globose ... 



Seed attenuated at the base, subpyriform. 



Leaves, including those of the fruiting branch 

 lets, up to 6 in. by 5 lin 



Leaves up to 1-1^ in. by 1^-22 lin 



Seed up to f in. long ; woody inner layer of seed 

 shell ^-1 lin. thick. 

 Leaves of the fruiting branches 1-2 i in. by IJ 

 Iflin " 



Leaves of the fruiting branches l-l in. by J 

 flin 



[Podocarpus. 



2. P. udarnbarensiis. 



3. P. Mannii. 



4. P. Duwei. 



5. P. gracilior. 



G. P. (jracillimus. 



1. P. milanjianus, Re^ulle in Trans. Liyin. Soc. ser. 2. iv. (1894) 

 61. A shrub or tree up to 100 ft. high ; branchlets terete, slightly 

 grooved ; terminal buds ovoid-globose, up to 2 lin. long. Leaves 

 spirally arranged, crowded, particularly upwards, linear, acute, 

 attenuated at the base into a short petiole, straight or slightly 

 falcate, spreading, 2-4 in. by 4-5 lin. or in the juvenile state up to 

 6 in. by 7 lin., coriaceous, midrib slightly raised on both sides, very 

 fine on the upper. Male cones solitary or in pairs, cylindric, up to 

 1 in. by 2-2 J lin., with a few rotundate-ovate subcoriaceous bracts 

 up to 1 J lin. long, at the base ; scales loosely imbricate, up to IJ lin. 

 long, blade rotundate-ovate, denticulate, about J lin. long ; pollen- 

 sacs almost 1 lin. long. Female cones borne on peduncles 3-6 lin. long 

 and formed of 2 decussate pairs of scales fused into a fleshy recep- 

 tacle, one barren, slightly shorter, with or without small ovate or 

 triangular tips, the other fertile with short free rims or small roundish 

 blades embracing the base of the ovule, the whole receptacle obconic 

 and more or less 2-lobed or when quite mature obovoid- globose to 

 globose and bright red, covered with a bluish bloom, 4-5 lin. long ; 

 sometimes only 1 scale fertile and then the receptacle more or less 

 oblique. Seed subglobose, about 5-6 lin. long ; inner layer of seed- 

 shell thin crustaceous, outer coriaceous or hard-fleshy, resinous, 

 slightly pruinose. — Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xxxvii. 226 and 

 xl. 235 ; Dawe in Kew Bulletin, 1907, 22 ; Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 

 xxxvii. 534, 538 ; Pilger, Taxac, in Engl. Pflanzenreich, iv. v. 92 (f. 

 arborescens and f. t/jpica) ; Mildbraed, Wiss. Ergebn. Zentr.-Afr. 

 Exped. 1907-8, ii. 40 ; Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. v. 292. P. 

 Mannii, Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 92, t. i. fig. A ; not of Hook, f . P. sp. 

 aff. Mannii, Schweinf. in Hohnel, Discov. Lakes Rudolf & Stefanie, 

 ii. 354 ; Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xxx. 379, 434 ; Engl, in 

 Sitzungb. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1899, 208; not of Hook. f. 

 P. latifolia, Engl. I.e. 1902, 230, 232 ; not of Wall, nor of R. Br. 

 P. Thunbergii, Engl. Jahrb. xxx. (1901), 266 ; not of Hook. 



