Dacrydium.] CXLIV. CONIFERS. (J. D. Hooker.) 649 



barren branchlets acicular 4-angled subpungent, those on the fruiting 

 branchlets small closely imbricate ovate-oblong obtuse or mucronate, 

 male spikes cylindric. Endl. Conif. 226; Parlat. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 

 494; Kurz For. Fl ii. 499 ; Hook. Lond. Journ. Sot. ii. (1843) 144, t. 2 ; 

 JBlume Rumph. iii. 221, t. 172; Miguel Fl. Ind. Sat. ii. 1075. Juniperus 

 elata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 838. J. Phillippsiana & rigida, Wall. mss. 



TENASSERIM ? Kurz. PENANG, Wallich. MALACCA; on Mount Ophir, Griffith, 

 Lobb. SINGAPORE, Schomburgk. UISTKIB. Sumatra, Borneo, Cambodia. 



A lofty pyramidal tree with spreading branches and weeping branchlets. Barren 

 branchlets in brush-like clusters, - in. diam., densely clothed with erect subulate 

 or acicular shining subulate or acicular deeply -grooved shiny leaves, ^-f in. long; 

 fertile branchlets very slender, terete, clothed with minute imbricating triangular- 

 ovate obtuse leaves -^ in. long; branchlets with leaves of all sizes and forms between 

 these extremes occur. Seeds scattered on the sides of the fertile branchlets, in. 

 long, ovoid, obliquely seated on the shallow cup-like scale. 



6. PODOCARFUS, merit. 



Evergreen, monoecious or dioecious trees or shurbs. Leaves opposite or 

 alternate, scattered and linear or distichous, or broad and oblong with a 

 midrib or with parallel nerves, or of two forms on the same branch some 

 scale-like and imbricate, others distichous linear or subulate. Male fl. 

 solitary, fascicled or spicate, with imbricate bracts ; anthers sessile, spirally 

 crowded ; cells 2 parallel, slits extrorse or lateral ; connective with an 

 apical claw or appendage. Fern. fl. solitary or few and spicate; bract 

 forming a peduncle to the also fleshy ovuliferous scale ; ovule adnate to 

 the scale, reflexed. Seed small, globose or ovoid, seated on an enlarged 

 fleshy peduncle (scale and bract) ; testa hard, often fleshy without ; albumen 

 fleshy; cotyledons 2. Species about 40, tropical and S. temperate. 



The 'P. chinensis, Wall. Cat. 6057, from the Calcutta Garden, is referred by 

 Maximovicz (Diagn. viii. 562) to a variety (0. chinensis) of the P. macrophylla, 

 Don. 



1. P. latifolia, Wall. PI. As. Ear. i. 26, t. 30 ; Cat. 6050 ; leaves 

 opposite and subopposite oblong to lanceolate acute or acuminate ecostate 

 many-nerved. Endl. Conif. 208; Parlat. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 508; 

 Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 414 ; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. t. 257 ; Hook. Lond. 

 Journ. Sot. i. (185) 658, t. 23 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. ii. 1071. P. agathifolia, 

 Blume BumpJi. iii. 217, t. 173. Nageia latifolia, Gord. Pinet. 138 ; Kurz 

 For. Fl. ii. 500. 



The KHASIA MTS., alt. 3000 ft. Hill forests of BURMA and the MALAY 

 PENINSULA. SOUTH DECCAN ; Tinnevelly, alt. 3-5000 ft., Beddome. DISTRIB . 

 Java. 



An evergreen glabrous tree, attaining 80 ft., with aromatic wood. Leaves 4-7 by 

 ^-2 in., very coriaceous, acute at both ends; nerves very many, close and slender; 

 petiole 0- in. Male spikes i in. long, 2-5 together, sessile or on a short peduncle ; 

 bracts ovate, acuminate, denticulate. Seeds solitary, subglobose, f in. diam., 

 blue-black, seated on a cylindric fleshy scaly peduncle. Foliage of Agathis 

 loranthifolia. 



2. P. neriifolia, Don in Lamb. Pin. Ed. 1, 122, Ed. 3, 74; leaves 

 scattered linear or linear-lanceolate obtuse acute or acuminate 1-nerved. 

 Endl. Conif. 215; Parlat. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 514; Brand. For. Fl. 541 ; 

 Brown in Benn. Fl. Jav. 40 ; Flor. des Serres, viii. 49, t. 768. P. bracteata, 



