Podocarpus .] cxxixa. taxace.'e (Stapf). 341 



Nile land. Uganda: Ruwonzori, Sr)00 it., Stuhbnnnn, 23r)0 (arborcBccnt) ; 

 10,500 ft., St uhlmaim, 239'^, 2r.i2 (f ruk-scont) ; 8-ll,0(K) ft.. Dawp, .'>47 ! (arbor- 

 e.scent); !)000 ft., Scott Elliot, 8()(>:} ! (arborr.sccnt) ; 7r>()()-lO,(M><J ft.. Doggettl 

 (arborescent), liutagu Valley, 0850-10,800 ft., MiUlhrard, 245G. Nina^onpo, 

 9500 ft., rare, Mildhraed. i:i:i5. ]5ud(lu ; littoral belt, 3750-40(K) ft., I)<nrp, 

 273 ! 909 ! Musozi ; mouth of Kagere river, lake Hhore, lingshaicr, 125. British 

 J^ast Africa: Kikuyu, 7500 ft., Whyte. ! up to 11,000 ft., Ilutrhin.^ ! Muzlim- 

 gira, Elliot, 251 ! 255 ! Leikipia plateau and western base of Kenia, b55(J ft., 

 Hvhnel. Kenia, 8000-9000 ft., arr(/ori/ ! (arborescent). 



Mozamb. Distr. ({ennan East Africa : Kirun<£a Volcano, Kassyirr, .'{202 ! 

 Kilimanjaro, southern sloju-s, 4250 (i5.'X) ft., Ifiilind, 174. Maran^^u, 72(K)- 

 8200 ft., VolJcen.'i, 814 (arborescent) ; above Kiboseho, 9500 ft., Volh.ns, ir>24 ; 

 by the Kitinika, 7900-9.^)00 ft., Volken-\ 1 894 (arborescent). Usambara ; b<-tween 

 Kwai and Garc, .')2.50 ft., Enqlvr, 2232 (arborescent) ; Magamba above Kwai, 

 88,50 ft., En/jler ; Hoist, 38();i. Uluguru ; Lukwangulu, 7200-8200 ft., Stn}d- 

 mnnn, 9179, 9212. Uhehe ; Utschumgwe Mountains, (>5.'>0 ft., r;n/cr,584 (fruU'- 

 scent). Rungwe Mountains, Sfolz, 373! (arborescent). Kinga Sfountaias ; 

 Kipengerc ridge, 8200 ft., antzr, 98(;. 



Mozamb. Distr. Nyasaland : Mlanji, irZ/y/r ! (1400 ft., firo^/w ! Mwanoniba, 

 7800 ft., MrClounir, 171! Nyika j)lateau, tiOOO-7000 ft., IVInftr \ Mount 

 Malosa, 4000-»)000 ft.; Whytt] Ix-tween lakes Shirwa and Chinta, 2."»00 ft., 

 C anninglmm \ without j^recise locality, liuchanan, 949! (iazaland: Chimani- 

 mani Mountains, 7000 ft., Swynncrton, 1902 ! Mount Pene, 7000 ft., Smjn- 

 nerfon, ()038 ! (arborescent). 



A valuable timber tree (Dawe). Although usually of moderate size, it 

 attains in places to a height of 100 ft., as in Usambara and on Mt. Kenia 

 (Gregory). Dawe saw trees 70 ft. high on Ruwcnzori. 



2. P. usambarensis, Pik/er, Taocac. in Eru/l. Pjlanzenreich , iv. v. 

 70. A tall tree, up to over 250 ft. high ; branchlets slender, scattered 

 or subopposite or subverticillate, spreadinsz, loosely disposed in 

 young, more crowded in old specimens. Vegetative buds very small, 

 obtuse. Leaves linear, long-tapering to a sharp point, shortly 

 attenuated at the base into a very short petiole, straight or sub- 

 falcate, about 3 in. by 2-| lin., rarely broader (up to 3.} lin.) and thinly 

 coriaceous in young trees, much shorter and nuich more coriaceous 

 in adult specimens ; midrib very obscure above, slightly raised 

 beneath. Male cones unknown. Female cones only known in the 

 mature state. Seed solitary on slender peduncles, 7-10 lin. long 

 and marked with the scars of the fallen scales, globose to subglobose, 

 about 1 in. long ; inner layer of seed-shell very hard, woody, up to 

 3i lin. thick, outer coriaceous, resinous inwards. -Pilger in Mild- 

 braed, Wiss. Ergebn. Zentr.-Afr. Exped. 1907-8, ii. 41. P.falcala, 

 Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 92. t. ii. figs. A. F. and G. ; not of R. Br. 



Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usambara; Mbalu. Heboma, in 

 mountain meadows, //o/.5^ 2548 ; Mlalo, .')250 ft., Enylrr, 1444; Para Moun- 

 tains, Mtai, in forests, Hoht, 2407 ! Kwai, in virgin forest from "MHM) ft. upwards. 

 Eich, 17; between Kwai and Care, .^)250-5«H)0 ft., Enyhr, 2229; Mogamba 

 forest, the prevailing tree, //o/.s/, 3810 ; Mku.ssu fon>st, Husse, 303. Huantla ; 

 Rugege forest, 6200 ft., Mildbmed, 1035 ; Bugoier forest 8200 ft., Mtldlmicd, 

 1473. Karagwe ; Bukoba, Mildbmed, 124. 



3. P. Mannii, Hook./, in Journ. Linn. S>c. B<>t. vii. 218. A tree 

 30-50 ft. high ; branchlets loosely dispo.sed or in adult trees crowded 



