190 NAGEIA, OR 



solitary, opposite, or under the male ones, and supported on 

 cylindrical footstalks about one inch long. Fruit, somewhat 

 globose, or obliquely oval, slightly pointed, and three quarters 

 of an inch long, with the base placed in an oblong cylindrical 

 cup, green at first, but afterwards purple, and covered with 

 loose-spreading, lanceolate bracts. 



A middle-sized evergreen tree, from twenty to thirty feet 

 high, found on the Mountains of Pundna, a lofty range border- 

 ing on the eastern parts of Bengal, and not far from the dis- 

 trict of Silhet, where it is called by the natives " Soplong." 



It is not hardy. 



Nc. 7. Nageia minor, Carriere, the Lesser Nagi. 

 Syn. Poclocarpus, minor Parlatore. 



Leaves alternate, crowded on the branchlets, leathery, ob- 

 long, somewhat rounded at the ends, sessile, a little twisted at 

 the, base, few nerved, and furrowed on the under side, and 

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

 a half to two lines broad. Male catkins, oblong, two lines long, 

 and produced in threes and fours in a spike-like fascicle on the 

 ends of the branchlets. Fruit unknown. 



An evergreen shrub or small tree, with erectly-spreading and 

 crowded branches, found along the banks of Lake Arnaud, in 

 New Caledonia. 



It is not hardy. 



No. 8. Nageia ovata, Gordon, the Ovate-leaved Japan Nagi. 



Leaves mostly in opposite pairs, but sometimes alternate, 

 broadly egg-shaped, or rounded towards the base, and with a 

 short, blunt, brown, marcescent point; they, however, vary 

 very much, both in size and shape, some being oblong-lanceo- 

 late, others elliptic, while the greater part of them are more or 

 less orbicular or broadly ovate, and from one and a half to 

 two and a half inches long, and from one to one and a half 

 inches broad at the widest part ; of a deep glossy green above, 



