CEPHALOTAXUS PEDUNCULATA. 



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and parallel with their primaries. Leaves spreading on all sides of 

 the axis, very leathery and of a darker green than in the spreading 

 form. 



C. pedunculate fastigiata, Carriers, Traite Conif. ed. II. 717. Masters in Gard. 

 Chron. XXI. (1884), p. 113, with fig. 

 Taxus japonica, Hort. 

 Podocarpus koraiensis, Hort. 



Fig 50. Foliage and fruits of Cephcdotcwcus pedunculata 

 (From the Gardeners' Chronicle.) 



var. sphseralis. 



Branches light chestnut-brown ; branchlets glabrous, green. Leaves 

 linear, falcate, sub-acuminate, 1'5 -2 inches long. Fruit in clusters 

 near the base of the branchlets, shortly stalked, globose, nearly as 

 broad as long, not ellipsoid. 



C. pedunculata sphaeralis, Masters in Gard. Chron. XXI. (1884), p. 113 with 

 fi#. ; and in Jonrn. Linn. Soc. XXII. 203. 



The shrub here described under the name of Cephalotaxus pedun- 

 'I'latft, as seen in British gardens is distinguished from C. drupacea, 

 by its pedunculate, staminate flowers, its larger and darker leaves 



