xxii GENERA. 



Sec. I. EUPODOCAEPUS, the True Podocarpus. 

 Leaves alternate, or scattered and linear. 

 Fruit solitary, with a fleshy receptacle connected 

 with the bracts by the axis of the short spike. 



Sec. II. STACHYCAEPUS, the Spike-fruited Podocarpus. 

 Leaves alternate or in two rows, and linear. 

 Flowers in spikes, provided with bracts, and fre- 

 quently all abortive, except the upper ones. 

 Fleshy receptacle wanting. 



See. III. DACEYCAEPUS, the Dacridium-fruited Podo- 

 carpus. 

 Leaves many-formed, and either three-sided or needle- 

 shaped, and in five rows, or spreading, linear, and flat. 

 Flowers solitary and terminal. 



Fruit pendent, almost dupraceous ; receptacle fleshy, 

 with the axis of the short spike without bracts. 



Gen. NAGEIA, Goertner. Leaves opposite or alternate, and 

 many-nerved. 



Floiuers monoecious or dioecious. 



Fruit axillary, drupaceous, and quite round, with a 

 fleshy receptacle, connected with the bracts by the axis 

 of the short spike. 



Seeds covered with a hard thin bony shell. 



Tribe III. DACRYDI^E, the Dacrydium Tribe. 



Gen. DACEYDITJM, Solander. Leaves needle-shaped or scale- 

 formed, opposite, and imbricated or spreading. 

 Flowers, male and female on separate plants. 

 Fruit drupaceous and erect, with a short fleshy disk- 

 like exterior, and bony shell on the seed. 



Gen. MICROCACHRYS, /. Hooker. Leaves very small, ovate 

 or scale-formed, and closely imbricated in four rows. 



Flowers, male and female on separate plants, and 

 terminal. 



