8 PODOCARPACEZ (Stapf). | Podocarpus. 
in diam., dark glaucous-green ; inner layer of seed-shell thinly 
crustaceous. Mirbe , Geogr. onif. in Mem. Mus. : 
L. C. & A. Rich. Comm. Bot. Conif. (1826) 13, t. i. fig. 2; Lo udon, 
Arb. & Frutic. Brit. iv. 2101, fg. 1997 ; Endl. al Conif. 
. 224; 
ed. i. 470; ed. ii. 671 (partly) ; : Gord. Pinet. ar i. 273 foie) 
ed. ii. 334 (partly); Henk. & Hochst t. Syn. Nadelhélz (partly) ; 
e% r ngl. Pflan 
axac. 89 ; n 
247 ; Edmonds & Marloth, Elem. Bot. 8. Afr. fig. 267 (?) (not text) ; 
— Pl. & their — A aay fig. 216 (2) a text) ; Dallimore 
ackson, Handb. P. pruinosa, Meyer ex Endl 
-§ 
.2 @ 
Slants erin Ait. Hort. Kew, ed.i. iii. 415 ; ed.ii. v. 416. 1. capensis 
Lam. — ii. 229. T. falcata, Thunb. Herb. ex Juel, Plant. 
Thunberg, 
Sours Arrica: without locality, Masson! Pappe! Zeyher 3889 
Carre PRovINcE Div. ; Zonderend, 400 f pe 
5682 ! Div., sandy islands and banks of the Breede River, Herb. 
orest Dept. 1247! Btelies bosch Div. ; precise locality, Miller ! 
Harvey! Malme i iebeck’s Salegl ee : uys Drift, 
rages Paarl Div. ; by t the Berg Riv tl, Drége! Worcester 
r Paa. ! 
v.; Dutoit’s Kloof, 1000-2000 ft., Dike t. Piqu ueibae: Dive: by the Ber 
River near Dooreboom, Bachmann, 1522, 1523; near Von deling, achma 
2211. anwilliam Div. ; Kradouw Krantz above = Oliphants River, among 
rocks in the cliffs, facing west. Pearson, 5328! Pillans, 5297 ! Cedarberg 
Rang e, Kaakadouw Kloof, 1150 ft., Diels, 937 ! 
is a collector’s note with the see. from the Breede river to the 
effect that the plant differs from P. ¢ longat 
re swollen succulent and scarlet “ aril,’’ the -stalk having 
two berries ! The specimen agrees exactly with Schlechter’s from the erend 
river and both much resemb! e except that their leaves show a 
tendency to become longitu wrinkled, which i observed in the 
mainder e herbarium material of P. elongatus. The plant is gured 
Sim. Cape G Hope, on t. 149, fig. 3, as P Thunbergii var angusti 
folia (Sim, l.c. 332). It requires ieee 8 investigatio: specimen collected 
y Pillans at the foot of the eastern cli: 
of Kradouw Krantz no. 5297) bel 
no doubt to P. tego although the fae are 34-5 lin. ae and ‘Suen 
hose . lati in shape. 
In cultivation in oe with oe pens at Lee, Kent, 1777! i 
ore eo ; ent, 1777! Dr. Salisbury, 
From pho ches oe ne originals of this nd the f wing 
species in the | =. herbarium, it t appear that Thunberg wrote = — 
: rgiane, that is, Taxus compe 
western and 7’. elongata for the eastern t, whilst the localiti i 
ss “ Flora Capensis,’’ ed. oy Cl fon vi 
Jat as we ts statio in sylvis t un 
mistakably to the name falcata having been intended for it, ia not for the 
wes’ pea: which, moreover, was early in apt er Engla nd under the 
ly from t by M 
journey tl 
‘ a 
hroug western a when they passed 
es Riebeck’s Risitel and crossed the Berg river at Veiccaeces Drift in i773 or 1774. 
