PODOCARPUS. 341 



No. 27. Podocarpus macrostachya, Parlatore, the Long- 

 spiked Podocarpus. 



Leaves thickly scattered along the branchlets, oblong-lanceo- 

 late, obtuse at the points, spreading, very leathery in texture, 

 re volute on the edges, shining, and channelled along the upper 

 surface, on short and rather twisted foot-stalks, and from one to 

 two inches long, and one-third of an inch broad. Male catkins 

 solitary, sessile, cylindrical, and bracteated at the base. Fruit 

 ovate-globose, with a short, blunt, oblique point, and four lines 

 long, and nearly three lines wide. 



A tree found on the Columbia mountains, and Sierra Nevada, 

 in California. 



No. 28. Podocarpus Mannii, Hooker, Mr. Mann's Podo- 

 carpus. 



Leaves somewhat two-rowed, elongate-lanceolate, slightly 

 falcate, narrow, acuminate, bristle-pointed, on somewhat terete 

 foot-stalks, shining on the upper surface, broadly nerved along 

 both sides, and from three to five inches long, and from two to 

 four lines broad. Branches angular and slender. Fruit un- 

 known. 



A kind of which little is known, found on the Island of St. 

 Thomas, in Western Africa. 



No. 29. Podocarpus Meyeriana, Endlicher, Meyer's Podo- 



ca,rpus. 



Syn. Podocarpus elongata. E. Meyer. 



Leaves thickly scattered along the branches, broadly-linear, 

 or elliptic-lanceolate, straight, or very slightly falcate, stiff, 

 thick, and leathery in texture, rather flat on the margins, 

 somewhat acute and slightly pungent at the apex, tapering 

 and somewhat twisted at the base, with the upper surface of a 

 dark green or glaucous blue, and but slightly marked by the 

 longitudinal furrow along the middle, and from one and a 



