348 poDocAnrus. 



leathery, spreading in all directions, pungent, smooth, and 

 thick, from one bo one inch and three-quarters long, and one 

 line broad, tapering to a very sharp point, thickened on the 

 edges, and with an elevated rib along - the middle. Branches 

 slender and spreading. Male flowers in clusters, and axillary. 

 Fruit on axillary loot-stalks, much longer than those of the 

 receptacles, which are somewhat club-shaped, and one-fruited. 

 Seed globular, solitary, and about as large as a pea. 



A tree, found growing about Port Jackson, and in the eastern 

 part of "New Holland. 



It is not hardy. 



No. 42. PoDOCAEPTTS SPRUCEI, Parlatore, Spruce's Podocarpus. 



Leaves thickly crowded along the branches, erectly-spread- 

 ing, linear-lanceolate, acute, and somewhat spiny-pointed, 

 leathery in texture, tapering to a short petiole, somewhat 

 twisted at the base, very slightly revolute on the margins, and 

 marked along the upper surface by the sunken mid-rib, and 

 from one to two inches long, and two lines wide. Fruit small, 

 solitary, and globular. 



A .tree, found on the xindes of Peru, of which little at 

 present is known. 



No. 43. Podocarpus Teysmanni, Miguel, Teysmann's Podo- 

 carpus. 



Leaves scattered or subverticillate, broadly-lanceolate, 

 leathery in texture, straight or somewhat falcate, tapering to 

 the foot-stalk, and somewhat twisted at the base, with the mid- 

 rib on the upper side very prominent, and on the under one 

 but slightly so, and from four to five inches long, and three- 

 fourths of an inch broad. Fruit unknown. 



A kind found along the sea-shore, in the western part 

 of Sumatra, and on Mount Poe, and at the base of the 

 mountains of Gunang and Mattang, near Sarawak in the 

 Island of Borneo. 



