456 Conifer ce Cephalotaxus. 



distichous linear straight flat acute leaves about 3 inches long, 

 dark shining green above and glaucous beneath. Fruit oval or 

 oblong, one-seeded, with a thin purplish flesh. A very distinct 

 and ornamental tree with spreading branches in regular whorls. 

 It is a native of Northern China, and somewhat tender in this 

 country. 



2. G. drupacea, syn. C. Fortunei fcemina. A small tree 

 from 20 to 30 feet high. Leaves crowded, in two ranks, rigid, 

 linear, curved, from 1 to 1^ inch long, yellowish glossy green 

 above, glaucous beneath. Fruit purple, oval-oblong, about 1 

 inch in length. From China and Japan, rather hardier than the 

 preceding, and. said to succeed best in a moist shady situation. 



C. pedunculata, syn. C. Harringtonii, is a Japanese species 

 with long dark green leaves and large drupaceous fruits on 

 long peduncles ; and C. umbraculifera is another Japanese 

 species, with shorter leaves and still larger fruits. 



25. SALISBtTRIA. 



Only one species of this genus has been described. It is 

 a deciduous tree with fan-shaped petiolate leaves, dioecious 

 flowers, and pedunculate 1 -seeded drupoid fruits upon a fleshy 

 disk. Dedicated to an English botanist. 



1. S. adiantifolia, syn. GingkobMoba. Maiden-hair Tree. 

 This is one of the most striking of hardy exotic trees, and one 

 which differs so much in habit and foliage from all others 

 belonging to this order that in the absence of flowers or fruit it 

 would be almost impossible to assign it to its proper position in 

 the Vegetable Kingdom. It forms a large handsome tree with 

 fan-shaped coriaceous pale-green leaves on long peduncles. The 

 veins of the leaves are very dense and parallel, and the blade 

 is usually deeply bilobate. The male flowers are in slender 

 axillary catkins, and the female flowers are fascicled and ped- 

 unculate. The fruit is a one-seeded fleshy globular or oval 

 drupe, about one inch in diameter, partially imbedded in the 

 fleshy cup-shaped disk. This tree is a native of China and 

 Japan, and was introduced into this country a little more than 

 a century since ; but it is said that only the male plant is in 

 cultivation. 



Nageia includes several tender Japanese shrubs or trees 

 usually incorporated with Podocdrpus. They have ovate or 

 lanceolate ribbed leaves and drupaceous fruits. N. Japonica 



