338 PODOCARPUS. 



No. 22. Podocarptts Kopaiana, Siebold, the Corean Podo- 



carpus. 



Syn. Cephalotaxus Koraiana, Hort. 

 Taxus japonica, Loddiges. 

 Fortnnei, Hort. 



Leaves regularly linear, somewhat falcate, alternate, or nearly 

 spiral by their closeness along the shoots, leatheiy, stiff, revo- 

 lute, and terminating in rather an obtuse end, furnished with a 

 hard, acute point, from one and a quarter to two inches and a 

 quarter long, and one line and a half broad, without, or on very 

 short foot-stalks, of a deep glossy green, with a narrow, acute 

 rib along the middle, on the upper surface, and glaucous on the 

 under side, except on the centre nerve and raised margins, 

 which are of a bright glossy green, and all terminating at the 

 apex in a short spiny point, more or less acute. Buds covered 

 with numerous persistent, oval, imbricated scales, keeled on the 

 back, and pointed. Branches strictly erect, twiggy, stiff, and 

 thinly furnished with laterals; branchlets very short, and with 

 the branches channelled along their surface by the long decur- 

 rent base of the leaves, which, after they fall off, cause the 

 branches and stems to become more or less tuberculated along 

 the surface. Fruit unknown. 



A small fastigiate bush, full of erect branches, thickly clothed 

 with leaves, and not orowino; more than two or three feet high, 

 found on the Chinese peninsula of Corea, and in Japan, where 

 it is abundantly grown in the town gardens, and found wild 

 on the mountains of Nagasaki. 



It is quite hardy, and a very desirable little evergreen for 

 small gardens. 



No. 23. Podocarpus L/ETA, Hoibrenk, the Ked-nerved Podo- 



carpus. 



Leaves spreading out, or deflected, linear-falcate, sessile, or 

 tapering to a very short foot-stalk, from one inch and a half to 

 one inch and three-quarters long, and a quarter of an inch wide, 



