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SUB-TEIBE II. PODOCAKPE/E. 



Ovules inverted or ultimately becoming so. 

 Peduncle and bracts concrescent and fleshy. 



Leaves heteromorphic 7. Podocarpns. 

 Peduncle ligneous. 



Fruits solitary or loosely spicate. Leaves linear 8. Prunmopitys. 

 Fruits aggregated. 



Flowers monoecious. Leaves linear and spirally 



arranged - - 9. Saxegothaea. 

 Flowers dioecious. Leaves squamiform, four- 

 ranked - 10. Microcachrys. 



PHYLLOCLADUS. 



L. C. Richard, Synops. Couif. 129, t. 3 (1826). Endlicher, Synops. Conif. 234 (1847). 



Parlatore, D. C. Prodr. XVI. 498 (1868). Bentham and Hooker, Gen. Plant. III. 



432 (1881). Eichler in Engler and Prantl, Nat. Pfl. Fam. 108 (1887). Masters in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. XXX. 7 (1893). 



A singular genus of Taxads in which the functions of foliation 

 are performed by metamorphosed branchlets termed " phylloclades " 

 (phyllodes of some authors, cladodes of others) which are leaf-like 

 expansions usually arranged in a distichous manner along the axial 

 growths from which they are produced. The phylloclades assume 

 different forms in different species and even in the same -species 

 as rhombic, fan-shaped, etc., and are either entire, lobed or pinnate ; 

 they are leathery in texture and usually with a well-defined 

 median nerve and numerous smaller nerves branching obliquely 

 from it. True leaves of linear form or some modification of it 

 are produced in the young state of the plant, but they usually 

 disappear at the end of the third or fourth year ; in the 

 adult state, the true leaves appear only in the form of minute 

 scales at the tip of the branches and at the base of the 

 phylloclades. 



Flowers monoecious or dioecious. Staminate flowers crowded 

 or solitary on the tips of axial growths, and surrounded with 

 scale-like bracts at the base. Stamens in a dense cylindric spike 

 and closely imbricated ; anthers two-celled with an acute or oblong 

 connective. 



Ovuliferous flowers few and either taking the place of, or produced 

 on the margin of greatly reduced phylloclades. They are composed of 

 boat-shaped scales spirally arranged around an axis. Ovules solitary, at 

 first inverted but ultimately becoming erect and surrounded by a 

 coriaceous aril. 



The genus includes five species, of which three are endemic in 

 New Zealand, one in Tasmania and one in Borneo. The New 



