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the branchlets, with the outer covering thin and leathery, and 

 the inner one brittle and bony. 



A tall tree, from 70 to 80 feet high, with an ample head, full 

 of spreading branches, found in forests on the mountains of 

 Salak, in the Island of Java. 



It is very tender. 



No. 3. Nageia cuspid ata, Gordon, the Cuspidate-leaved Nagi, 

 Syn. Podocarpus cuspidata, Endlicher. 



Leaves opposite, or sub-opposite, with those at the extre- 

 mities of the branchlets, frequently alternate, and somewhat 

 in two rows. They are elliptic, very entire, undulated on the 

 edges, tapering to a short, stout footstalk, abruptly pointed, 

 very seldom acute, and never mucronate, and from one and 

 three-quarters to three inches long, and from one and a quarter 

 to one and a half inches broad in the widest part; of a very 

 deep green on the upper side, and light green below, marked 

 with numerous longitudinal nerves, slightly elevated, and of a 

 bright green colour. Branches spreading, and either alternate, 

 or opposite, or in whorls, and frequently naked and much 

 reduced on the adult parts by the falling of the leaves; branch- 

 lets opposite, very rarely alternate, and generally in two rows. 

 Fruit unknown. 



A small tree, growing from fifteen to twenty feet high, found 

 growing on the island of Jezo, in Japan, and much cultivated 

 about Jeddo. 



No. 4. Nageia grandifolia, Gordon, the Great-leaved Nagi. 

 Syn, Podocarpus grandifolia, Endlicher. 



Leaves opposite, oblong, lanceolate, thick at the margins, 

 many-nerved, and covered with stomates on both surfaces. 



This species, according to Professor Encllicher, is easily dis- 

 tinguished from Dr. Wallich's Podocarpus latifolia, which it 

 much resembles, by its leaves being stiffer and more than six 

 inches long, and one inch and three quarters broad, and with 



