PODOCARPUS. 345 



A tufted tree, with close branches, and covered with a 

 yellowish-brown bark, found on the mountains of Chili and 

 Peru. 



It is not hardy. 



No. 35. Podocarpus parvifolia, Parlatora the Small-leaved 



Podocarpus. 



Leaves small, and thickly scattered along the branches, 

 linear-oblong, acute, mucronate, and somewhat pungent, taper- 

 ing to a short petiole, and somewhat twisted at the base; upper 

 surface smooth and marked with a longitudinal furrow, mar- 

 gin hardly revolute. Fruit ovate, pointed. 



A kind of which little is known, found in New Holland 

 by the late Allan Cunningham. 



No. 30. Podocarpus polystachya, R Brown, the Many- 



spiked Podocarpus. 



Leaves lanceolate, sharp-pointed, leathery in texture, curved 

 at the margins, and from one and three-quarters to three inches 

 lono-, and from two and a half to four lines broad. Male 

 flowers axillary, somewhat in threes, and provided at the base 

 with a scale-formed involucre. Fruit on axillary foot-stalks, 

 and solitary. 



A large tree, with a straight stem, and very branching ample 

 head ; found at Sincapore, in Borneo at Sarawack, and on the 

 Prince of Wales Island, where it is called the Wax-Dammara. 

 This species is very like Podocarpus bracteata, but differs in 

 having the leaves and catkins much shorter but stouter, 

 and in the receptacle being much thicker, and the fruit more 

 globular. 



No. 37. Podocarpus Purdieana, Hooker, Purdie's Jamaica 



Podocarpus. 



Syn. Podocarpus Jamaicensis, Ilort. 



Leaves elliptic, or oblong-lanceolate, thick, leathery, very 

 smooth, and shining on the upper surface, flat, straight, very 



