650 CXLIV. CONIFERS. (J. D. Hooker.) [Podocarpus. 



Bin me F.nnm. i. 881 ; Rumph. iii. 214, 1. 172, f. ] ; Parlat. I. c. 515 ; Gamble 

 Man. Ind. Timb. 414. P. polystachya, Brown I. c. 40; Parlat. I. c. 515 ; 

 Endl. L c. P. maerophylla, Wall. Cat. 6052. Nageia bracteata, Kurz 

 For. Fl. ii. 501. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA ; Nepal, WallicJi ; Sikkim, alt. 3000 ft., J. D. H. KHASIA 

 HILLS and forests of BURMA, the MALAY PENINSULA and ANDAMAN ISLANDS. 

 DISTRIB. Java, Sumatra, Borneo. 



A glabrous evergreen tree. Leaves 4-8 in. (in saplings to 8 in.), coriaceous, 

 straight or falcate, base narrowed, midrib prominent on both surfaces; petiole -, 1 , I in. 

 Male spikes 1 in., solitary or clustered, sessile, cylindric, suvrounded at the base by 

 broad acute keeled bracts. Seeds solitary, globose, \ ^ in. diam., seabed on an 

 oblong fleshy peduncle. 



3. P. cupressina, Br. ex Mirb. in Mem. Mus. xiii. 75, and in Benn. 

 Fl. Jav. 35, t. 10; leaves on older branches minute quadrifarious lanceolate 

 mucronate keeled, on the younger distichous spreading linear and falcate 

 or compressed and tetragonous. Endl. Conif. 222 ; Blume Rumph. iii. 

 218, t. 172, f. 2, and 172 B, f. 2. P. imbricata, Blume Enum. 89. P. 

 Horsfieldii, Wall. Cat. 6C49. 



UPPER BURMA ; at Bharao, Griffith. MALACCA ; on Keddah Peak, Griffith. 

 PENANG, Wallich, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1501). DISTRIB. Malay Islands.. 



A lofty tree. Branch lets of 3 forms ; (1) short, flat, feather-like, 1-2 in. long, 

 with a slender rachis and close-set distichous horizontally-spreading linear falcate 

 acuminate shiny leaves -| in. long; (2) terete, filiform branchlets, clothed with 

 minute imbricate ovate acute leaves ^ in. long ; (3) stouter, terete, fruiting branch- 

 lets with subulate leaves ^-5 in. long. Seeds globose, \ in. diam., on shorn 

 decurved lateral branchlets. 



7. AGATHXS, Salisb. 



Evergreen monoecious or dioecious trees. Leaves coriaceous, broad, 

 nerves parallel. Male fl. solitary, peduncled ; peduncle clothed with 

 decussate imbricate scales ; anthers densely spirally crowded in a cylindric 

 or oblong column; cells 5 or more, pendulous from the top of a rigid stipes, 

 slits introrse ; connective with an apical inflexed claw. Fern, cone ovoid 

 or globose ; scales closely spirally imbricate, tips broad ; ovuliferous scale 

 thin and confluent with the scale ; ovules 1, rarely 2, reversed and adnate 

 t the scale. Ripe cone globose or oblong ; scales hard, broad, persistent. 

 Seed 1 on one side of the scale (rarely 2 perfect), reversed, compressed, 

 ovate or oblong, testa thin winged ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons 2. 

 Species about 6, Malayan, Australasian and Polynesian. 



A. loranthifolia, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. viii. 312, t. 15; leaves 

 petioled subopposite or alternate oblong-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate 

 obtuse, anther-cells with an orbicular cuneate claw, fern, coiies subglobose, 

 scales rounded, wiog of seed horizontal. Wall. Cat. 6057 ; Blume Enum. 

 Fl. Jav. 90. A. Dammara, Rich. Conif. 83, t. 19. Dammara alba, 

 Rumph. Herb. Ami. ii. 174, t. 57 ; Parlat. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 374. D. 

 orientalis, Lamb. Pin. Ed. 2, ii. 97, t. 54; Endl. Conif. 189. D. Eumphii, 

 Presl. Epimel. 236. Abies Dammara, Poiret. Diet. v. 35. 



PEXANG, Wallich, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1500 ft.). PEKAK ; at Larut, Low. 

 DISTRIB. Malay Islands. 



A lofty resiniferous tree, with a pyramidal crown and whorled branches. Leaves 

 3-7 in., usually opposite, very coriaceous, obtuse, acute, or tip rounded, very like 

 those of Podocarpus latifolia, ecostate, very many-nerved. Male cones |-2 in., 



