PODOCARPUS. 347 



with a straight stem, covered with a reddish-brown bark, 

 slightly wrinkled, and found in the most elevated forests in the 

 Moluccas, and New Guinea. 



No. 39. Podocarpus salicifolia, Klotzsch, the Willow-leaved 



Podo carpus. 

 Syn. Purdieana, Hovt., not Hooker. 



Leaves somewhat falcate, very long, and tapering to the 

 point, leathery, stiff, of a pale green, and shining on the upper 

 surface ; from three to five inches long, and very rarely more 

 than half an inch broad. Male catkins axillary, solitary, cylin- 

 drical, obtuse, a little incurved, and three-quarters of an inch 

 long, with angular foot-stalks; foot-stalks of the fruit, from three- 

 quarters of an inch to one inch long, and much thicker than 

 that of the receptacle, which is two-lobed, but only one-fruited. 

 Fruit oblong, or globular, smooth, and furnished with a 

 shortish point on the apex. 



A small tree, found on the mountains of Colombia, and in 

 the North-western part of South America. 



It is very tender. 



No. 40. Podocarpus Sellowii, Klotzsch, Sellow's Podocarpus. 



Leaves long, lanceolate, acute-pointed, and tapering to the 

 base; from two to three inches long, and from three to six lines 

 broad in the widest part. Male flowers axillary, elongated, 

 and solitary ; foot-stalks of the fruit slender, with the upper 

 part two-flowered, but only one-fruited, the other being always 

 abortive. Fruit smooth. 



A tree, from twenty to thirty feet high, found on the 

 mountains of Brazil, by Sellow, but not hardy. 



No. 41. Podocarpus spixulosa, R. Brown, the Spiny-leaved 



Podocarpus. 



Syn. Podocarpus excelsa, Loddiges. 

 pungens, Don. 

 Taxus spinulosa, Smith. 

 Leaves alternate, or opposite, or in whorls, linear-falcate, 



