Podocarpus. | PODOCARPACE& (Stapf). 13 
5. P. gracilior (Pilger in Engl. Pflanzenreich, iv. v. Taxac. 71); 
a tall tree up to t. or more high with a bole over 4 ft. in diam. ; 
rib indistinct above, slightly raised below; male strobiles solitary 
or in subsessile clusters of 2 or 3, sup tapes ie broad roundish 
bracts, often up to 9 lin. and occasionally over 1 in. long; scales 
imbricate, with = adly ovate- “isinnaaias iui blade, in. long ; 
female strobiles sessile at the end of shor t branchlets, carrying 
reduced ae often early deciduous a the strobiles formed of a 
short axis, 1-1} lin. long, with 1-3 barr n short ultimately deciduous 
scales, dry and sued or pometiiees foliaceous, spreading and 
rec urved, the uppermost supporting an ovule; seeds ellipsoid- 
globose, rounded or slightly attenuated at the base, 7-10 lin. long, 
6-8 lin. across, glaucous-green to pur lish-brown ; inner layer 
of —— very pies bony, slightly tubercled, up to 1 lin. thick, 
outer usually thinner and dry or sometimes as ves as the inner 
sip slightly fleshy, resinous inwards. Engl. Pflanzenwelt 
. 86, fig. 86, and V Hara and Rg eae ny {sphalm. P. 
fi d. 
Soc. Bot. xxi. 404 (as forma. ?); Hutchins, Forests of Kenia in Col. 
Rep. Miscell. no. 41, 17; not of L’Hérit. P. falcata, Engl. in Hochge- 
birgsfl. Trop. Afr. Le. and Veget. Usambara, 68; Pirotta in Ann, 
Ist. Bot. Roma, vi. 156; not of R. Br. Taxus "elongata Roth, in 
Harris, Highl. Aeth. ii. 708 ; : ge of Ait. 
TRANsvAaL: Zoutpansberg, Houseman, Col. Herb., 5248! Pietersburg 
Dist.; The Downs, Rogers, 30210 ! (juvenile form). 
Apparently throughout eastern tropical Africa as far as Abyssinia. 
Podocarpus gracilior resembles P. falcatus so much that it has for a long 
time been considered identical with it. Both exhibit a scape —* of variation 
loweri S, an e attaining more 0: which, 
as well as the floral and fruit-characters, are beech of the two a 
never ve nounced, P. gracilior and P. falcatus may with alae show of 
_ Teason tees collage oe ‘geographical subspecies or r varieties of a P. falcatus in 
