342 cxxixa. taxace^ (Stapf). [Podocarjms. 



upwards and short. Leaves sessile, linear, gently tapering to an 

 acute point, shortly attenuated at the base, straight or more or less 

 falcate, up to 6 in. by 5lin., or in the flowering region sometimes only 

 3 in. bv 2. I lin., coriaceous (particularly when short), midrib very 

 slender, faint above, more conspicuous beneath. Male cones axillary, 

 solitary or in pairs, sessile, with a few rounded bracts, J lin. long at 

 the base, cylindric, up to 1 in. long ; scale-blades broad-triangular, 

 shorter than the pollen-sacs. Female cones only known in the 

 mature state, sessile at the ends of short few-leaved branchlets. Seed 

 solitary, borne on the slightly thickened axis of the cone ; axis about 

 "2 lin. long, with 2 or 1 persistent ovate-lanceolate recurved scales ; 

 seed pyriform, up to almost 1 J in. long, chestnut-brown, shining ; 

 inner layer of seed-shell hard, woody, up to 2 lin. thick, outer 

 hard coriaceoAis, slightly thinner. — Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 Bot. xxi. 395 : Henriques in Bolet. 8oc. Brot. v. 216 ; Nobre, I.e. 

 vii. 115, t. 1-3. 



Lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, from 4750 to the summit of the Peak, 

 7025 ft., 2M(fn?i, 10f)5 ' MoUp)- ! 



4. P. Dawei, Stapf. A tree up to 100 ft. high with a long clear 

 ])ole. branched from near the top ; branchlets of the flowering region 

 crowded, short. Vegetative buds 1-1 i lin. long. Leaves crowded 

 upwards, sessile, linear, acute or subacute, shortly attenuated at the 

 ))ase, 1-1| in. by lJ-2 lin., coriaceous, firm, midrib very obscure 

 above, slightly raised beneath. Male cones unknown. Female cones 

 only known in the mature state, terminal on short bracteate branch- 

 lets ; bracts small, ovate, recurved, resembling the scales of the cone ; 

 axis of cone slightly thickened, 2-2^ lin. long ; scales about 2, broad 

 ovate, spreading or recurved, 1 lin. long. Seed subglobose, very 

 shortly attenuated at the base, dark brown, slightly pruinose, 10-11 

 lin. long, about 8 lin. in diam. ; inner layer of seed-shell hard-woody, 



light coloured. IJ, lin. thick, outer also woody, but chestnut-brown. 

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 Nile Land. Ugamla : South Buddu, near the Kagera River, 4000 ft., Davr, 

 0()l ! 



5. P. gracilior, Pilgcr, Taxac. in Engl. Pjlanzenreich, iv. v. 71. A 

 tree 30 to over 60 ft. high ; branchlets crowded upwards in the old 

 trees, scattered or subverticillate, angular from the decurrent leaf- 

 bases. Vegetative buds obtuse, J lin. long. Leaves scattered, 

 crowded on the short branchlets, linear, long and gently tapering 

 to a sharp point, shortly contracted at the base, up to 4 in. by 3 lin. 

 in young plants and on long shoots, mostly much shorter, 1-2 in. 

 by lJ-2 lin., coriaceous, midrib obscure above, very slender and 

 slightly raised beneath. Male cones subsessile, subtended by a few 

 small broad roundish bracts, axillary, solitary or in pairs or threes, 

 straight or flexuous, mostly up to 9 lin., occasionally over 1 in. 



