346 PODOCARPUS. 



rarely falcate, and slightly recurved on the margins; from three 

 to five inches long, and from three quarters of an inch to one 

 inch broad, of a bright green, regularly tapering into a short 

 stout foot-stalk at the base, and from the middle of the leaf on 

 each side to the point, which is terminated by a stout, short, 

 mostly black, obtuse point, but sometimes variable, those of the 

 young plants being acute and spiny. Branches spreading, 

 horizontal, and marked by the scars caused by the falling off of 

 the old leaves. Fruit with the foot-stalks much shorter than 

 the receptacle, which is bifid, and one-fruited. Seeds some- 

 what globose, terminating on the upper part in an oblique 

 little flexible point. 



A large tree, growing upwards "of 100 feet high, found on 

 the eastern side of the Island of Jamaica, at an elevation of 

 from 2500 to 3500feet. 



It is very tender. 



No. 38. Podocarpus Rumphii, Blume, Rumphius's Podocarpus. 

 Syn. Lignum Emanum, Riimphius. 



Leaves sometimes in whorls of from three to four on the 

 young shoot, but scattered, or somewhat in two rows on the 

 more adult trees, linear-lanceolate, spreading, acute-pointed, 

 very rarely blunt at the ends, straight, or somewhat falcate, 

 leathery, and on very short foot-stalks ; from five to nine inches 

 long, and from three-quarters of an inch to one inch broad, with 

 an acute rib on the under side, but hardly prominent, and 

 somewhat keeled above, and of a bright shining green on the 

 upper surface. Branches long and smooth ; buds small, ovate, 

 and covered with scales; foot-stalks axillary, solitary, and about 

 one inch long, furnished on the top with from one to three 

 flowers ; receptacle turban-shaped, obliquely truncated on the 

 ends, fleshy, of a dark violet colour, and containing one, but 

 sometimes two seeds. Fruit elliptic, or somewhat globular, 

 covered when ripe with a glaucous bloom. 



A tall tree, growing from eighty to a hundred feet high, 



