10 PODOCARPACE (Stapf). | Podocar pus. 
in the east. 
falcatus (Falcate Yellow-wood) of the Natal Forestry Reports. The difference 
in the structure of the seed-shell of P. Henkelii and P. falcatus is very striking. 
Native name wm-Sonti or um-Sunti 
4. P. faleatus (R. Br. ex Mirb. Geogr. Conif. in Mém. Mus. 
Par. xiii. (1825) 75); a tall tree up to over 100 ft. high, with a 
straight cylindrical bole about 3 ft. (sometimes 8 ft.) in diam. 
timate branchlets of the mature tree stunted, crowded, terete 
= n. 
dark green or brown, moderately thick, in the mature tree crowded, 
subacute or those towa e base of the branchlets subobtuse 
obtuse, 1-14 3-2 lin., straight or nearly so, firmly coriaceous, 
ale green, midrib indistinct on the upper side, 
slightly raised below, with 1 resin-duct below the central strand ; 
stomata on sides; male strobiles solitary or in subsessile 
clusters of 2 or 3 or more, cylindric, lin. long, 1 lin. thick, each 
supported by broad-obovate obtuse bracts; scales imbricate, 
with a cordate-ovate subdenticulate blade, 3 lin. long; pollen- 
sacs almost } lo female strobiles (only seen in the mature 
and -mature state) peduncled, formed o which 
ovate obtuse scales up to 1 lin. long, all deciduous except the upper- 
out 3 li 
most, whic rts a seed; peduncles ab ong, mar. 
ith the scars of early deciduous coriaceous rotundate-ovate or 
sometimes leaf-like bracts; see ore less globose, about 6 
Handb. Conif. ed. 2, p- 44; Wilson, Plant Hunt. i 25, t. 4 and in 
Journ. old Arbor. ix. 145, t. 14. P. meyeriana, Endl. 1.c. 218 ; 
Parl. le. 512; Marloth, Kapland, 206. P. elongata, Pappe, Silva 
p. 32; Carr. Trait. Co : . 
Menger Je, 4 (4, 121); Burtt Davy in Transvaal Agric. Journ 
(not fig. 267-ii, iii); Engl. Pflanzenw. Ost.-Afr. C. ¢. 1, figs. C-H ; 
Sim, Tree Plant. Natal, 236, 285; For. Fl. Cape Col. 332, t. el. and in 
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