Podocarpus.) CONIFER. 991 
as a slender, exserted tube, with often a toothed or fimbriate 
mouth. Seed drupe-like 
Male bracts closely imbricated; seeds usually cat scaly, the stipes 
stout, never exceeding -25 in., usually much shorte scandens 
She bracts apis. imbrieated seeds glabrous, the stipes slender, - 
lon 
funic sete 
2001. ——o SCANDENS Roxb.; F. I. iii. 518; F. B. 1. v. 642; 
810. 
eee ; Chota Nagpur, Singbhum. 
A large dicecious climber 
2002. GNetTuM FUNICULARE BI. ; r. B. I. v. 648. 
Chittagong 
A large dicecious climber. 
Order CXXIII. CONIFERZ. 
‘Trees or shrubs ; wood-cells studded with disks. Leaves usually 
alternate, rigid, linear or subulate, rarely broad, solitary or fas- 
cicled in membranous sheaths. Flowers monecious or dicecious; 
males in deciduous catkins, females solitary or in cones. Perianth 
0. ¢ Stamens many; ae elrres in a globose, ote 
oblong or cylindric column, sea n the se sides of the ca 
thers 1- or more-celled, peri stipitats or sessile round the 
axis of the column. ¢ Ovules 1 or more, sessile, naked, o: - 
tropous, on a scale (open carpel) which is free or adnate to the scale 
(bract) of a cone, eee often winged; testa thick or thin; albu- 
men dense, fleshy ; embryo axial, straight; cotyledons 2 or more ; 
tadicle terete, bitte attached to a crumpled, thread-like suspensor. 
Seales of the female cone very few, spirally crowded ; ovules 1 under 
each scale, reversed: leaves latwe: cuss... sccctnenccqeoekescosawetct ocarpus. 
Scales of the ienale: cone opposite in several series ; ovules 2 or more on 
each scale, erect ; leaves very small Thuy 
882. Podocarpus L’Herit. 
green trees or shrubs; leaves opposite et ogee 
etediceas and linear, or distichous or broad and oblong, w nail 
. ay or with parallel nerves; or tec aa some oe and 
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