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No. 1. Cephalotaxus drupacea, Slebold, the Drupaceous or 



Plum-fruited Cephalotaxus. 



Syn. Cephalotaxus Fortunei foemina, Carriere. 



coriacea, Knight. 



Podocarpus drupacea, Hort. 



Taxus baccata, Thunber;/. 



coriacea, Hort. 



Japonica, Hooker, not Loddiges. 

 Leaves strictly arranged in two rows laterally along the 

 branches, regularly opposite, rather close, leathery, stiff, linear, 

 slightly curved or falcate, bluntly tapering to a short, acute, 

 spiny point at the apex, and on very short foot-stalks, more or 

 less twisted at the base, from three-quarters to one inch and 

 a quarter long, and one and a half to two lines broad near 

 the base, of a deep glossy green colour above, with a narrow, 

 elevated nerve along the middle, and witli two broad glaucous 

 white bands along the under side, but with the mid rib and 

 margins of a bright glossy green below. Branches in horizon- 

 tal whorls along the stem, upper ones sometimes a little as- 

 cending, quite straight, very spreading, flat, stiff, and rather 

 short, lateral ones in two rows, quite flat, short, rather nume- 

 rous, and either opposite or alternately placed at irregular dis- 

 tances along the principal branches. Branchlets very short, 

 rather stiff, very flat, and spread out laterally on each side. 

 Buds small, and covered with persistent, imbricated, acute- 

 pointed, more or less extended scales. Male flowers in globular 

 heads provided with bracts, each catkin being oval and rather 

 pointed. Fruit drupaceous, or plum-like, regularly elliptic, and 

 from three-quarters to one inch long, and three-quarters of an 

 inch broad. Seeds solitary, with a thin, hard, bony shell, 

 covered with a thin fleshy substance, and purplish skin when 

 ripe. Seed-leaves in twos, and rather short. 



A fine, compact, evergreen tree, growing from 35 to 40 feet 

 high, found in China and Japan, both cultivated and in the 

 wild state, particularly on the mountains of Nagasaki, at an 

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