Podocarpus. | PODOCARPACE& (Stapf). 5 
or in old trees coming off in sheets (C. Ross) ;. the young branchlets 
f the mature tree more or less angular, glauc s; terminal buds 
globose- ed, scales very broad, shortly pointed with brown 
margins or the tips foliaceous ; leaves ete! arranged, loose in 
the juvenile state, moderately crowded in the mature state, drooping, 
linear to lanceolate-linear, long tapering to a slender acute point, 
gradually narrowed at the base into a short petiole, 3-6 in 
straight or frequently slightly falcate, suberect or spreading, thinly 
coriaceous, more or less glaucous, midrib slightly raised on bot 
sides with 3 resin-ducts below the central strand, stomata confined 
to the lower side ; male strobiles solitary or in. clusters of up to 5, 
iy ic, 3-13 in. long, glaucous-pinkish, with rotundate-ovate 
coriaceous bracts, 1 to almost 2 lin. long at the base scales imbricate, 
of the bracts barren, with a slightly lower insertion 
broadly ovate with a short slender tip, the upper, with a narrow 
very delicate hah, seecatlas be es the r emainder of the Aon 
hard-leat athery, and very gritty, more or less r oman = to 
thick. Burtt Davy, Man. Flow. Pl. Transvaal, 100, 1 sg Thun. 
bergit, Bane Davy in Transvaa 1 Agr. Journ. 1907, 31. P. Thun- 
bergii var. falcata, Sim, Tree Plant. Natal 236, 285, fig. 94; Forest 
Fit Cape Col. 332 (in part), fig. opp. p. 55, t. exlix. fig. ee x ‘falcatus, 
Marloth, Fl. South Afr.; Suppl. Dict. Comm. Names of PI 161; 
Sim, Fl. Trees & Shrubs ‘f. use in §. Afr. 183, Native Timb. S. Afr. 
102, fig. 1; not of R. Br 
Eastern Recron: “ British Kaffraria,”’ Cooper, 1298! East Griqualand, 
Mt. Ayliff Div., Fort Donald, Sim, Nat. Herb., 19016! Cockrane ! —— 
forest, Cockrane in Forest Dept. Herb., 2172! Forest Dept. Herb., 1248 ! 
land : taft Div. ; Tonti Forest, Whibley, Forest Dept. Herb., 2167 ! Cont 
in Forest spt. Herb., 1249! 
N. : Div.: Riverside, ave sa —— Pike Fee — 
2170! 2171! In an, , Xalingena Fores ous. orest Dept. 
194’ Em anergy Reserve, Howshold, For erb., 1880 ! 
Pietermaritzbi - Zwartkop, 4000 ft., Sim, Nat. Herb., 19007 ! Blink- 
ane. ee Herb., 19014! Kar kloof, 3000 ft., Sim, "19019 ! Maritz- 
burg, 2300 ft., Nat. Herb., 19011! 19121 1913 ! and without precise 
locality, Henkel, Foret Dept. Herb., 2331a & b 
Swazitanp: Forbes Reef Bush, ‘5100 ft., Burtt Davy, 27 
TRANSVAAL : ee , Legat, 3467! Pietersburg Distr. ; iain, 
' Nelson, 420! 
