Podocarpus.] cxxixa. taxace^ (Stapf). 348 



long ; scales about 1 lin. long, their blades broadly ovate-triangular, 

 acute, J lin. long. Female cones sessile at the ends of short leafy 

 branchlets ; their axis 1-2 lin. long, with or without 1 or rarely 2 

 small broad ovate spreading or recurved barren scales, ultimately 

 slightly thickened ; fertile scales like the preceding. Ovule obovoid- 

 oblong, lJ-2 lin. long, bluish-pruinose. Seed ellipsoid-glol)ose, 

 rounded or slightly attenuated at the base, 8-9 lin. long, 7-8 lin. 

 across, purplish-brown and slightly bluish-pruinose ; inner layer 

 of seed-shell very hard, woody, up to 1 lin. thick, outer coriaceous 

 about as thick as the inner or slightly thicker, resinous inwards. — 

 Engl. Pflanzenwelt Afr. iv. v. 86, fig. 81, and Veget. Harar und 

 Gallahochl. 11 (sphalm. P. gracilift). P. elonqata, A. Rich. Tent. 

 Fl. Abvss. ii. 278; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop'. Afr. 109; PH. Ost- 

 Afr. C.^92. t. i. fig. B (not C-G) ; Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. B«)t. 

 xxi. 404 (as forma ?) ; Hutchins, Forests of Kenia in Col. Rc]), 

 Miscell. no. 41, 17 ; not of L'Herit. P.falcata, Engl, in HochgebirgsH. 

 Trop. Afr. I.e., and Veget. Usambara, 68 ; not of R. Br. Tdxua 

 p.Iongata, Roth in Harris, Highl. Aeth. ii. 408; not of Ait. 



Nile Land. Abj'ssinia : Shire, Quar tin Dillon d- Petit, 105! Gerra Abuna 

 Tekla Zlaimanot, Schimper, 11(30! Shoa ; Ankober, Both \ Arussi (iaila ; 

 Djafa, mOO-SdOO it., Ellenheck, 1344, 1350, 1428; Goru Aba.s, Drakf ■ Rrock- 

 maUy 244 ! W. Sidamo, Drake- Brockman, 205 ! between Surro anii H(>ii« )no, 

 Bira, 194. Southern Abvssinia, without precise locality, Stordij \ I'uanda : 

 Nandi, Johnston ! P]ldama Ravine, 7000 ft., JohnMov ! ]Vhyte ! Man, (KMM)- 

 8000 ft., Scott Elliot, ()950! British Ea.st Africa: Leikipia, WOO-.SOOO ft., 

 Thomson, 399 ! at the foot of the Aberdare range, 5300-()900 ft., Hvhml Kenia, 

 Hutchins, 400 ! 



6. P. gracillimus, Stapf. A tree of great height (a mammoth tree, 

 Nelson) with slender branchlets. Vegetative buds up to 1 lin. long. 

 Leaves densely crowded at the end of the branches and branchlets, 

 sessile, linear, about equally and slightly attenuated at both ends, 

 acute, straight or slightly falcate, up to 10 lin. by i-J lin., coriaceous, 

 midrib obscure on both sides, particularly above. Male and female 

 cones unknown. Seeds (immature) globose, about 5 lin. in diam., 

 supported by the moderately stout axis of the cone which is about 

 Ii lin. long and bears scars of 1 or 2 (?) barren scales and the fertile 

 scale which is ovate-triangular, ^ lin. long, and closely a])pres.^ed to 

 the seed. 



Mozamb. Distr. North Transvaal: Houtboschberg, Nelson, 423 ! 



Imperfectly known species. 



P. veros. latifolius, R. Br. : Mildbrned Wiss. Enjrbv. ZoUr.-Afr. 



Exped. ii. 40. 



Mildbraed states that he saw in the Schampf Valley of the Rugege Forest. 

 Ruanda, a tree of considerable height and broad-pyramidal habit with almost 



