316 OUDEK 129. PALMACE/E. 



Lcares linem. Anthers 5 8 on each scale. Seed sitting in a fleshy cup TAIOS. 1 



Leaves lance-linear. Anthers 4. Seed Heshy -coated or dry, Lot in a cup TORREYA. 1 



1 Leaves linear to orate, 1-veined. Anthers 2. Seed inverted, in a shallow cup PODOCARPDS. 3 



Leaven flabelliform, fork-veined. Anthers 2. Seed erect, in a deep cup SALISBUKIA. 4 



1. TAXUS, Toum. YEW. Flowers axillary, the $ in aments. Stain, 

 or bracts peltate, ;-8-lobed, with 5 8 anther-cells. $ Flower solitary. 

 Ovule erect, becoming a nut-like seed, sitting in a deep fleshy cup-shaped 

 disk. 5 *) Leaves rigid, alternate, in 2 rows. 



1 T. Caiiadensis L. Dwarf T. (Fig. 166.) Shrub low or prostrate, branches as- 



cending; Ivs. mucronate, revolute-edged, 9 12"; stain, with 5 anther-cells ; fruit de- 

 pressed-globous, a black seed in an amber-colored cup. Rocky polls', northward. 



2 T. BACCATA. English Y. Tree of low stature, widely spreading ; Ivs. falcate, acute, 



flat, 10 lit" ; stain, with 6 8 anther-cells ; fruit oblong-bell-form. Europe. 



3 T. bre vilolla N. Tree 15 50f, branches ascending ; Ivs. 710", very narrow ; sta. 



with 6 anther-ce.ls ; fruit oval. Fla. f and Greg. The species are all closely related. 



2. TORREYA, Arn. Flowers axillary, the 6 many in the ainent, 

 bracts in 4 rows. Stamens with 4 anther-ceils. ? Ovule with few bracts, 

 becoming drupe-like, at length a dry ovoid bony nut or seed. J> J> Leaves 

 rigid, alternate, 2- rowed, pungent, lance-linear. 



T. taxilolia Arn. Tree 15 30f, with erect strict form, dark green ; Ivs. 1 If long, 

 2-ranked as well as the branchlets ; fruit smooth, glaucous, ovoid, 9 11". Fla. t 



3. PODOCARFUS, L'Her., contains some rare evergreens with remark- 

 ably large leaves (2 3' long). As yet very sparingly cultivated. 



4. SALISBURIA ADIANTIFOLIA (or Giukgo biloba). Tree 40 80f, from 

 Japan, strict and pyramidal. Lvs. fan-shaped, 2-lobed, fork-veined and petiolate, in struc- 

 ture much tike the Maidenhair Fern. The flower* and fruit are seldom seen. 



PROVINCE, ENDOGENS, 



THE MONOCOTYLEDOXOUS PLANTS. Steins without the distinc- 

 tion of bark, wood, and pith, endogenous in growth ( 421). 

 Leaves mostly parallel-veined and alternate. Flowers 3-parted 

 (rarely V). Embryo with one cotyledon. (Prov.Acrogens.360.) 



CLASS III. PETALIPER^E. Endogenous plants having 

 flowers either with a whorlcd perianth or without one, but 

 never glumaceous. (Class IV. GLUMIPER^E. Page 355.) 



COHORT 5. SPADICIFLOR.E. Flowers crowded on a 

 thickened or club-shaped rachis (spadix), mostly naked, 

 rarely with a scale-like perianth. (Cohort 6, p. 322.) 



OKDKU CXXIX. PALMACE^E. PALM.S. 



Trees or shrubs, chiefly with unbnmchcd trunks growing by the tcrminju 

 bud. Leawi large, plaited, on sheathing petioles, collected in one terminal 



