PODOCARPUS. 359 



A diffuse shrub, with numerous divaricate branchlets, a little 

 tortuose, found in the mountain woods of Poila and Diane in 

 New Caledonia. 



UNCERTAIN AND LITTLE KNOWN KINDS. 



No. 58. Podocarpus tenuifolta, Parlatore, the Slender- 

 leaved Podocarpus. 



Syn. Dacrydium elatum tenuifolium, Carriere. 

 tenuifolium, Parlatore. 



Leaves on the young branchlets alternate, very slender, 

 linear-falcate, compressed, closely placed in two rows, and 

 nearly half an inch, long and half a line broad, while those 

 on the adult parts are linear-subulate, and convexly-keeled on 

 the back ; all of them are decurrent at the base, and mucronate 

 at the apex. 



A tree with erect, curved branches, and slender branchlets ; 

 found on the wooded mountains in New Caledonia. 



No. 59. Podocarpus Vieillardii, Parlatore, Vieillard's Podo- 

 carpus. 



Syn. Dacrydium elatum compacta, Carriere. 

 Vieillardii, Parlatore. 



Leaves on the young shoots scattered/ or somewhat two- 

 rowed, spreading, glaucescent, and from a quarter to half an 

 inch long, and very narrow ; while those on the adult parts 

 are scattered, adpressed, and convexly-keeled on the back; all 

 of them are decurrent at the base, and mucronately-subulate 

 at the apex. Male catkins solitary, erect, linear, and terminal, 

 and from a quarter to half an inch long. Fruit unknown. 



A tree found growing among the rocks, along the banks of 

 running streams at Poila, in New Caledonia. 



