4 PODOCARPACE# (Stapf). [ Podocarpus. 
triangular to ovate-rotundate, rarely — blades, and 2 
relatively large dorsal pollen-sacs near the [ ollen with 2, 
rarely 3, win, Female strobiles iehiibaal’6 or Peeters: “aeunlly 
reduced to a few sterile lower scales, which are more or less fused 
with each other and with the axis and erminal fertile 
scales, the whole plexus often boone oy fleshy aa 
—rarely spike-like with few numerous usually distant fertil 
po 
arising the face of the scale and adnate to the single integument 
Seeds deciduous together with the fleshy receptacle or with the 
unm remainder of the strobile or falling from the scales of 
bs or trees, often of great height. Leaves squamiform or linear or 
lanceolate to ovate, usually spirally arranged, but placed dorsiventrally, rarely 
ale strobiles solitary or clustered or disposed i un 
inflorescences, rarely apical. s and receptacles, where present, greenish 
or brown or sometimes vividly coloured, the seeds always conspicuously 
exposed. 
Distr. About cies, mostly in the mountain forests of the Tropics, 
a few in the feet egions of the Southern Hemisphere and in Japan. 
aaa mostly transformed n aturation into a flesh 
ptacle, or at _ thickened and clavate. Inner layer of seed- 
shell — thin and crustaceous Ze const asia hypoderm 
rma 
corer oe dermis continuo stomata on the lower side 
of the leat only (at Teast j in the South African species). 
— = er adult tree 1-2} in. long, straight, shortly 
= almost obtuse; receptacle distinctly 
ane 
Leaves 33-63 lin. wide ie Ces a - (1) latifolius. 
Leaves 2 lin. wide 
Leaves of the adult tree 3-6 in. bys -4 lin. owen 
er acute point ; oot. saa hard fleshy ; 
though thickened and clava. z : . (3) Henkelii. 
- (2) elongatus, 
Section 2. Sracuycarpus, Endl.—Axis and scales of the female 
sbiotiles not transformed during maturation into a fleshy receptacle 
the axis ultimately dry with the scales or Har of the lower scales 
Tnner layer of seed-shell (testa) thick and bony. Sclerenchymatic 
h rma be stomata 
on both aid sides of the MY oh i P not continuous ; 
