PODOCARPUS TOTARA. 153 



A beautiful evergreen tree inhabiting the temperate Himalayas of 

 Nepal and Sikkim ; it also occurs on the Khasia Hills and in the 

 forests of Burmah, whence it spreads southwards into the Malay 

 peninsula and the Andaman Islands. It was introduced to the Royal 

 Gardens at Kew in the earl} 7 part of the nineteenth century, and 

 is still cultivated in the great Temperate House, 



Podocarpus nubigenus. 



A tree of Yew-like aspect of variable dimensions according to the 

 situation in which it is growing. Leaves linear, or elongated oval- 

 elliptic, 1 '2 inches long, sessile or attenuated at the base into a very 

 short footstalk, sub-acuminate with a thickened mid-nerve, dark lustrous 

 green above with two glaucous stomatiferous bands beneath. In- 

 florescence not seen. Fruit as described by the author of the specific 

 name " pedunculis solitariis, receptaculo oblique bilobo, obovato r 

 brevioribus ; fructibus oblongis, oblique obtuse apiculatis." 



Podocarpus nubigenus, Lindley in Journ. Hort, Soc. Lond. VI. 264 (1851); 

 and Paxton's Flower Garden, II. 162, with fig. Carriere, Traite Conif. ed. II. 

 650. Parlatore, D. C. Prodr. XVI. 513. Gay, Fl. Chil. V. 404. Gordon, Pinet. 

 ed. II. 344. Masters in Journ. R. Hort. Soc. XIV. 243. 



Discovered by William Lobb in southern Chile in 1846, and 

 introduced by him in the following year to the Veitchian nursery 

 at Exeter. It was found associated with and growing under 

 the same conditions as Saxegothcea conspicua and which are stated 

 under that species. Although fairly hardy in the south-west of 

 England and in Ireland, the climate of this country, so different in 

 many respects from that of Southern Chile, is apparently unsuitable 

 for it, and like the Saxegothrea, it has proved disappointing. 



Podocarpus Totara. 



A tree varying in height from 40 80 and in places even to 100 

 or more feet, with a trunk 2 6 feet in diameter. Bark on old trees 

 often 3 inches thick, deeply furrowed ; on younger trees fibrous, reddish 

 brown and thrown off in ribbon-like shreds. Branches spreading, with 

 - distichous ramification ; brauclilets opposite, rigid, with dull green 

 channelled bark. Leaves spirally inserted but rendered pseudo-distichous 

 by a twist of the short petiole, linear or linear-lanceolate, nmeronate, 

 0*5 1*25 inch long, dull, dark green and channelled above, paler and 

 obscurely keeled beneath. Inflorescence dioecious. Staminate flowers 

 axillary on shoots of the preceding year, solitary or in twos and 

 threes, cylindric, sessile or shortly stalked, 0'5 0*75 inch long, 

 with four minute involucral bracts at the base ; anthers numerous with 

 a small, obtuse, toothed connective. Ovuliferous flowers axillary, shortly 

 stalked, consisting of two connate scales, one, rarely both, of which 

 bears an ovule near the apex. Fruit about the size of a cherry, with 

 a pulpy pericarp enclosing a nut rounded or slightly narrowed at the 

 apex. 



