TORREYA. 411 



straight, but sometimes slightly falcate, tapering to a long acute 

 spiny point, somewhat lanceolate at the summit, and tapering 

 into a very short twisted foot-stalk, decurrent at the base; from 

 two to two inches and a half long, and one line and a half 

 broad, of a pale yellowish green, without any mid-rib, and 

 slightly convex on the upper surface, but much paler on the 

 under one, and marked longitudinally on each side of the centre 

 nerve, with a narrow sunken band, whitish when young, but 

 afterwards assuming a brown colour. Buds covered with per- 

 sistent oval scales. Male catkins axillary, and solitary ; female 

 flowers in twos or threes on short peduncles, and axillary. 

 Fruit elliptic, and from one inch and a quarter to one inch and 

 a half long, with a thin fleshy or leathery green covering, quite 

 smooth when ripe outside, and very similar to that of Torre} a 

 taxifolia. Seeds with a hard bony shell. Seed-leaves in twos. 



A small bushy-headed tree, growing from twenty to forty 

 feet high, with spreading more or less horizontal branches ; 

 found erowinsf on the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. 



Timber yellowish, heavy, and fine-grained ; but all parts of 

 the tree emit a very disagreeable odour, when either bruised 

 or burned, and is called by the Californian emigrants the 

 Stinking Yew, or Californian Nutmeg. 



It is quite hardy. 



No. 2. TORREYA NUCIFERA, Zuccarini, the Nut-bearing Torreya, 



( Thunberg, not Wallich, and 

 Syn. Taxus nucifera, j other Indian ^^ 



Caryotaxus nucifera, Zuccarini. 

 Podocarpus nucifera, Persoon. 

 Coreana, Van Houtte. 



Leaves linear, rounded at the base, and somewhat two-rowed 

 on the branchlets, but more or less distant, and scattered round 

 the leading shoots, quite straight, flat, leathery, and tapering to 

 rather a long, spiny acute point, mostly curved downwards ; 

 from one to one inch and three-quarters long, and one line and 



