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parts are rhomboid, keeled on the back, closely imbricated, but 

 not adhering, and of a deep green colour. Male catkins 

 clustered on the ends of the little branchlets oval-oblong, erect, 

 and two lines long ; the female ones are oval-obtuse or globular, 

 erect, solitary, and terminal. 



Fruit very small, but much thicker than the top of the 

 branchlets, nearly globular, terminal, nodding, somewhat fleshy 

 green when young, bright red when ripe, and composed of 

 numerous spreading, imbricated scales resembling the leaves, 

 but much larger. Scales spreading, loosely imbricated, ovate, 

 thickened on the back, boat-shaped, acute-pointed, concave in 

 the middle, rather fleshy, and bright red. Seeds egg-shaped, 

 solitary at the base of each scale, more or less exposed, and 

 covered with a thin, bony shell. Branches prostrate, branchlets 

 very numerous, long, slender, and entirely covered with scale- 

 formed leaves, loosely imbricated in four rows, and very like 

 those of an Arthrotaxis, but very much smaller. 



A prostrate shrub, found plentiful on the hills of Port 

 Cypress, and on the top of the western mountains in 

 Yan Diemen's Land. It is not hardy. 



Gen. NAGEIA, Gartner. The Catkin-bearing Laurel. 



Flowers, monoecious or dioecious. 



Fruit, axillary, drupacious, about the size of a cherry, and 

 quite round. 



Receptacle, fleshy, and connected with the bracteas by the 

 axis of the short one-fruited spike. 



Seeds, with a hard thin shell. 



Leaves, opposite or alternate, and many-nerved. 



Seed-leaves, in twos. 



Name, derived from " Na" or " Nagi," its Japanese name, and 

 signifying catkin-bearing. 



All moderate-sized trees, natives of the East Indies, Java, and 

 Japan. 



