ENUMERATION OF CONIFERS 



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(Prumnopifys elegans, Phil.). A small tree or shrub: leaves crowded, slightly 



2-ranked, linear. 



;h long, obtusish or mucronate, dark green and 



with a slightly raised midrib above, with a distinct midrib and 2 stomatiferous 

 glaucous bands beneath: fruit subglobose, usually solitary on a slender 

 drooping stalk, dark bluish-black and 

 about 3^ inch across. Chile. — Intro- 

 duced to Great Britain about 1860. 

 Hardier than the preceding species. 

 3. P. Nagi, Makino (P. Nageia, 

 R. Br. Nageia japonica, Gaertn.). 

 Nagi Podocakp, Fig. 24. Tree to C'O 

 feet in its native country, with 

 spreading or ascending-spreading 

 branches; the trunk with smoctl 

 brownish-purple bark peeling off in 

 thin gray flakes; branchlets opposite 

 or sometimes alternate, green : leaves 

 opposite, 2-ranked by a twist of the 

 short petiole, elliptic-lanceolate to 

 lanceolate, sometimes ovate, acute, 

 narrowed at base, 2-3 inches long and 

 about ^ inch broad, many- 

 nerved, bright green and usually 

 lustrous above, slightly paler 

 beneath, sometimes somewhat 

 glaucescent : stammate flowers 

 cylindric, about 1 inch long, 

 in clusters of 3-5; fertile flowers 

 over 3^ inch across, plum-like, dark purple, bloomy, on a but slightly 

 thickened peduncle. Southern Japan. — Introduced to Europe about 1830 by 

 Siebold. Hardy only in southern California and Florida. A beautiful tree 

 with its lustrous foliage and smooth broad leaves. 



24. Podocarpus Nagi. 

 litary or in pairs: fruit globose, little 



2. PHYLLOCLADUS, Rich. 



Evergreen trees or shrubs; branches often whorled; branchlets flattened 

 and expanded into rigid and coriaceous toothed or lobed leaf-like cladodia: 

 true leaves reduced to linear scales: flowers monoecious or dicecious, the 

 male flowers fascicled at the tips of the branchlets, the fertile flowers sessile 

 on the margins of the cladodia or on peduncle-like divisions of the same: 

 ovuliferous scales 1 or several and spirally arranged around an axis, thick 

 and fleshy, free; aril coriaceous, as long as or shorter than the seed. (Name 



