Con ifertz Torreya. 455 



with similarly ruminated albumen. It is found on the Sierra 

 Nevada Mountains of California. 



3. T. nucifera. A small tree of extremely slow growth with 

 linear sharply-pointed scattered or distichous dark green shin- 

 ing leaves from 1 to 1^ inch long. Fruit oblong-ovate, about 

 9 lines long. Native of Japan. 



4. T. taxifolia. A tree with spreading branches from 20 to 

 40 feet high in its native habitat, but of exceedingly slow 

 growth in Britain. Leaves rigid, linear, very acute, yellowish 

 green, from 1 to 1^ inch long. Fruit usually more than an 

 inch long, oblong, glaucous green. A native of Florida. 



23. PODOCARPUS. 



Evergreen shrubs or trees with linear-lanceolate or oblong 

 scattered or distichous leaves. Flowers sub-dioecious. Female 

 flowers solitary, axillary. Fruit drupoid, on a thick fleshy ped- 

 uncle, which suggested the generic name, from Trouy, a foot, and 

 KapTros, a fruit. This genus is numerous in species, but they 

 are chiefly from warm or tropical countries, from Japan south- 

 wards to Australasia, and in South America. A few are suffi- 

 ciently hardy to bear our climate. 



1. P. Japonicct-) syn. P. Chinensis^ P. coriacea of gardens 

 (not of Richard), and Tdxus Japonica. An erect slow-growing 

 shrub, closely resembling the Irish Yew both in habit and 

 foliage, but the branches are stouter and the leaves from 2 to 3 

 inches long and 2 to 3 lines broad, and silvery beneath. A 

 handsome hardy shrub, native of Japan. 



P. Andlna, syn. Prumnopitys elegans, is a Chilian species 

 with lanceolate coriaceous glossy dark green foliage, silvery 

 beneath. P. nubigcena, from the same country, with linear- 

 lanceolate leaves ; and P. Koraina is a very ornamental 

 Japanese species of recent introduction. 



24 CEPHALOTAXUS. 



This genus with the foliage of the Yews has the dioecious 

 flowers in clusters, and the fruits large and plum-like, and 

 two or three together. The name is a compound of /cs(j>a\TJ, a 

 head, and -rafts, arrangement, from the disposition of the 

 flowers. About five or six species are known, natives of China 

 and Japan. 



1. C. Fortune^ syn. C. Fortunel mas, C. Fortunei pendula, 

 and C. filiformis. A tree from 40 to 50 feet high with 



