14 PODOCARPACEZ (Stapf). | Podocarpus. 
area and P. falcatus proper of extratropi a with occasional 
es in one a the other direction. oO 8 speci m Dp 
berg (a fair branch with adult foliage a — Tuit, pcos here 
acilior, agrees exactly in its pong th typical specimens of this species 
from Ken 598), whilst eee fruit i is rather large with the outer 
layer of its shell too soft for typical P. gracilior ; but it has, on the other hand 
its coun specimens of Icatus collected by Fourcade in 
e Hu rp Div: ape Province termination of this arisen: 
e de 
therefore remains waneiind doubtful for the present, and the same applies 
Rogers’s specimen from The Downs, which is in the juvenile state. 
6. P. gracillimus area in Prain, Fi. Trop. Afr. vi. ii. 343) ; 
a tree of great height (a “ mammoth tree,” according to Nelson), 
only known from a few aaah in the adult state and some 
nd 
bears ra scars of 1 or 2 barren scales, and b the fertile scale 
which is eopeirieetin > lin. long an d clos sely - habrreaa to the 
seed. Burtt Davy, Man. Flow. Pl. Transvaal, i. 100, 101 
TRANSVAAL: Houtboschberg, Nelson, 423! Burtt Davy, 5083. 
A very doubtful and i incompletely known spec It may represent mere 
a state of P. gracilior, in which the lication of th the eaves in length and bresdth 
characteristic of the oe argree has been carried to excess. Sim has a ady 
Pag ict this e ie ar state was gi ctr ny y A. Whyte in 
OrDER CXXVII. B. CUPRESSACEZ. 
(By O. Srapr.) 
Moneecious or occasionally diccious.  Strobiles small, mostly 
solitary and terminal. Male strobiles : scales Opposite or in whorls 
of 3, squamiform and more or less shield-shaped, bearing basi- 
dorsally 2-6 slledicekes pollen grains without vesicular appendages. 
Female strobiles: sca t fertile, beari 
rarely united in a stone, mostly with wing-like expansions of the 
_crustaceous to woody testa ; cotyledons 2, rarely 3-6. 
