352 PODOCAPPUS. 



the lower parts being scattered, while those on the upper ones 

 are mostly in two rows, with very short foot-stalks, and from 

 three-quarters to one inch and a half long, and about one line 

 broad, of a dark glossy green colour above, more or less rusty 

 on the edges, without any rib, and glaucous below, leathery, 

 stiff, very smooth, and dense. Branches numerous, and 

 erectly spreading ; branchlets short, stout, spreading, and 

 scattered, but frequently alternate and angular near the 

 top. Flower-spike axillary and alternate ; peduncle two or 

 three-flowered, but one-fruited from abortion; bracts small 

 and sessile ; receptacle oval, on the end of a long neck, ob- 

 scurely three-lobed, and oblique, smooth, plump, purple, and 

 persistent after the fruit is ripe. Fruit globular, smooth, 

 fleshy, succulent, without any foot-stalk, dark purple, and 

 about the size of a common cherry. Seeds with a hard, 

 bony shell. 



An evergreen pyramidal tree, from, forty to fifty feet high, 

 with a cylindrical stem, covered with a smooth reddish-brown 

 bark, found in the shaded valleys of Quillai Leuvu in the 

 neighbourhood of Antuco, and on the colder Alpine regions of 

 South Chili. Professor Philippi describes it as a rather large 

 tree inhabiting the inner Andes of the province of Colchagua, 

 and the banks of the River Traijuen in the Province of 

 Valdivia, in the extreme south of Chili. The native name of 

 the tree is " Lleuque," and the drupes or plums are eaten when 

 ripe as well as the kernels they contain. 



Timber hard, yellow, and beautifully veined, and in much 

 request among the cabinet-makers in Chili. 



It is quite hardy. 



No. 49. Podocaepus ferruginea, Don , the Rusty-coloured 



Podocarpus. 



Leaves in two rows, narrow, linear, somewhat falcate, very 

 dense, and acute -pointed, from three-quarters to one inch and 

 a quarter long, and one line broad ; those on the branches and 



