(548 CXLIV. CONIFERS. (J. D. Hooker.) [Cephalotaxus. 



globose, peduncle scaly ; anthers about 12, mucronate. Fern, cones 3-4, on a com- 

 mon peduncle, pedicelled ; bracts adnate, ovate, obtuse. Seed 1-|- in. long, obovoitl- 

 oblong, mucronate, narrowed at the base. 



2. C. Griffith!!, HooJc. f. leaves linear acuminate falcate white 

 beneath, base rounded. 



UPPER ASSAM; Mishmi Hills, alt. 6000 ft., Griffith (Kew Dislrib. 5000). 

 MUNNIPORE, Watt. 



Very similar in a dried state to C. Mannii, but tbe leaves are white beneath. I 

 have seen no fruit. The plant has long been cultivated at Kew, having been sent 

 from the Calcutta' Botanical Garden by Dr. Thomson. 



4. TAXUS, Tournef. 



Evergreen dioecious (rarely monrecious) trees or shrubs with very tough 

 wood. Leaves bifarious, linear, obtuse acute or acuminate, 1-nerved. Malefl. 

 a pedicelled whorl of 3-8 anther-cells on a peltate scale. Fern. ft. a single 

 erect orthotropous ovule, terminating a short peduncle clothed with imbri- 

 cating scales, and seated on a thick scale that enlarges as a fleshy 

 red cup. Seed ovoid, subcompressed, testa hard ; cotyledons 2, radicle 

 superior. Species one, variable; or several differing only in foliage, all 

 N. temperate. 



T. baccata, Linn, Sp. PL 1040 ; leaves more or less falcate acute 

 or acuminate, paler beneath. JEndl. ConiJ. 242; Parlat. in DC. Prodr. 

 xvi. ii. 500; Wall. Cat. 6055; Brand. For. Fl. 539; Gamble Man. Ind. 

 Timb. 413; Buiss. FL Orient, v. 711. T. nucifera, Wall. Tent. FL Nep. 

 44, t. 57 (excl. syn.} ; Cat. 6054 (not of Kasmpfer). T. virgata, Wall. mss. 

 T. Wallichiana, Zucc. in Abhandl. Bayr. Akad. Classe Math. Phys. iii. 

 803, t. 5 ; Endl. L c. 244. T. orientalis, Bertoloni Misc. .xxiii. 17, t. 2. 

 T. nepalensis, Jacquem. mss. T. contorta, Griff. Itin. Notes 351, No. 536 ; 

 Notul. iv. 128 ; Ic. PL Asiat. t. 376. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 6-11,000 ft. KHASIA HILLS, alt. 5000ft. UPPER 

 BURMA. DISTRIB. N. and Temperate E. Asia, all Europe, N. Africa, N. America. 



A tree, in the Himalaya attaining 100 ft., and 20 in girth of trunk ; branches 

 spreading; bark thin, flaking. Leaves |-li in., dark green, coriaceous. Fruit 3 in. 

 long, ovoid ; cup mucilaginous, sometimes concealing the olive-green seed. 

 Bertoloni's T. orientalis is a narrow long-leaved form from Sikkim, collected by 

 myself. 



5. DACRYDIUIYC, Soland. 



Evergreen dioecious trees or shrubs. Leaves either scale-like and 

 4-fariously imbrica.te, or distichous scattered and subulate, both forms 

 sometimes on the same branch. Malejl. small, sessile, at the tips of the 

 branches ; anthers spirally crowded on a short stipes ; cells 2, globose, 

 deflexed, connective with an apical claw. Fern. fl. in small lax spike- 

 like cone ; oyuliferous scale free, concave or cup-shaped, at length ex- 

 ceeding the bract; ovule 1', erect or oblique. Seed small, ovoid, erect, 

 longer than the cup-shaped enlarged ovuliferous scale ; testa hard, striate ; 

 albumen not ruminate. Species about 12, Malayan, Australasian and 

 Pacific. 



Z>. elatum, Wall. Cat. 6045 ; leaves of two forms, some on the 



