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THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS 



branches and pendent branchlets; the trunk with gray, shallowly fissured 

 bark: leaves alternate, pinkish when unfolding, more or less spreading, 

 narrowly lanceolate, narrowed toward the apex and acute or obtusish, at the 

 base gradually narrowed into a short petiole, bright green and lustrous and 



with a distinct midrib above, paler 

 below, 3-4 inches long and more 

 than 3^ inch broad: staminate 

 flowers fascicled, sessile, about 1 

 inch long: seed ovoid, 3^-^ inch 

 long, borne on a fleshy purplish- 

 violet receptacle. Japan. — Intro- 

 duced to England by Wm. Kerr 

 in 1804, to this country in 1862 

 by Dr. G. R. Hall. A tree of somber 

 aspect, hardy as far north as South 

 Carolina and perhaps farther. 



Var. Maki, Sieb. (P. chinensis. 

 Wall. P. macrophylla var. chi- 

 nensis, 'Maxim. P.japonica, Sieb.). 

 Branches upright: leaves more 

 upright, linear-lanceolate, obtuse or 

 obtusish, 1M~3 inches long and 

 M~/€ in<^^ broad: seed globose- 

 ovoid, 3^ inch long or slightly 

 longer. Japan. — Introduced to 

 England about 1800. Tenderer than the type. Two variegated forms of 

 this variety are in cultivation. 



2. P. Totara, D. Don (P. Totarra, A. Cunn.). Tree to 80, or occasionally 

 to 100 feet or more, tall; bark reddish-brown, fibrous, separating in long slu-eds, 

 on old trees thick and deeply furrowed; branches spreading with distichous 

 ramification: leaves spreading in two ranks, short-petioled, linear to linear- 

 lanceolate, 3^-1 inch long, acute and pungent, dull green above and plane or 

 slightly grooved, paler beneath and with indistinct midrib : staminate catkins 

 axillary, cylindric, 3^-% inch long: fruit axillary, short-stalked, con- 

 sisting of 1 or 2 subglobose seeds often slightly narrowed at the apex and 

 about }/2 inch long, with a red, swollen, rarely shriveled receptacle at the 

 base. New Zealand. — Introduced to Great Britain about 1850. Cultivated 

 in California. 



A species similar in foliage though belonging to a different group charac- 

 terized by the staminate flowers being arranged in terminal spikes, by spike- 

 like fertile flowers, and by the absence of a receptacle is P. andinus, Poepp. 



23. Podocarpus macrophylla. 



