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much paler and keeled beneath. Inflorescence not seen ; as represented 

 by Siebold and Zuccarini's figures : staminate flowers in axillary clusters, 

 cylindric, about an inch long; ovuliferous flowers solitary, rarely in pairs, 

 pedunculate and bibracteate. Fruit roundish, about the size of a large 

 pea, seated in a sub-cylindric, fleshy receptacle as large again as itself. 



Podocarpus macropliyllus, Don in Lambert's Genus Finns, ed. I. Vol. II. 22 

 (1824), not Wallich. Siebold and Zuccarini, Fl. Jap. II. 70, tt. 133, 134. 

 Endlicher, Synops. Conif. 216. Carriere, Traite Conif. ed. II. 644. Paiiatore, 

 D. C. Prodr. XVI. 517. Gordon, Pinet. ed. II. 340. Franchet et Savetier, 

 Enum. Plant. Jap. I. 475. Beissner, Nadelholzk. 194. Masters in Jonrn. R. Hort. 

 Soc. XIV. 243. Sargent, Forest Fl. Jap. 77. 



Taxns macrophylla, Thunberg, Fl. Jap. 276 (1784). Alton, Hort. Kew. ed. II. 

 Vol. V. 416 (1813). 



Jap. vernacular, Maki. 



vars. argenteo-variegatus and aureo-variegatus. 



Branchlets shorter and the leaves more crowded than in the common 

 form, the leaves of the first named with a broad cream-white, and of 

 the second with a broad yellow margin; in both varieties many of the 

 young leaves when first developed are wholly white in the one and 

 wholly yellow in the other. 



P. macrophyllus argenteo- and aureo-variegatus, supra. P. cliinensis argentea and 

 aurea, Gordon, Pinet. ed. II. 331. 



Podocarpus macropliyllus first became known to science in the early 

 part of the eighteenth century through Krempfer.* It was also 

 seen by Thunberg during his brief stay in Japan in 1777, and who 

 described it in his " Flora Japonica :; under the name of Taxus 

 macrophylla. Fifty years later it was gathered by Siebold whose 

 figures of it are among the best yet published ; it is common in 

 cultivation throughout Japan but not known to be endemic. Several 

 varieties are known to Japanese horticulturists, and among them the 

 two variegated forms described above which were first sent to this 

 country by Mr. Fortune in 1861 and re-introduced by Mr. James H. 

 Veitch in 1892. Around Tokio the common form is much used as 

 a hedge plant, and is often cut into fantastic shapes, whilst the 

 variegated forms are preferred for pot culture and dwarfing. 



Podocarpus Nageia. 



A medium-sized tree with an erect trunk covered, when old, with 

 smooth purplish bark. Branches spreading or sub-pendulous with 

 distichous ramification ; branchlets opposite or alternate, sub-angulate, 

 .green. Leaves in decussate pairs, rarely alternate, somewhat distant, 

 elliptic-lanceolate or lanceolate-oblong, acute, 2 3 inches long and 

 0*75 1 inch broad, narrowed at the base into a short petiole, many- 

 nerved, leathery in texture, dull green. Flowers monoecious (?), axillary, 

 bracteate. Staminate flowers in fascicles of three five, cylindric, about 

 an inch long. Ovuliferous flowers solitary or in pairs, shortly pedun- 

 culate, the receptacle scarcely thicker than the peduncle. Fruit about 



* Amoenitates Exoticse, p. 780, published in 1712. 



