992 BENGAL PLANTS. ( Podocarpus. 
cicled, or spicate, with imbricate bracts; females solitary, or few 
and hone bract large. 3g Anthers sessile, spirally crowded on 
the column; cells 2, lad slits extrorse or lateral; connective 
witha an apical claw or appendage. ¢ Bract forming a peduncle 
to the fleshy, ovuliferous scale; ovule sige adnate to the 
scale, reflexed. Sced small, globose or ovoid, seated on an 
enlarged, ee peduncle, composed of scale and bract; testa 
rd n fleshy externally; albumen fleshy; cotyledons 2. 
3. ya orrpi NERIIFOLIA Don; F. B. I. v. 649; E. 
. 1006. 
ties 
A aakeea evergreen tree, 30-50 feet high. 
883. Thuya Linn. 
Evergreen trees or shrubs; leaves small, opposite, scale- like, 
adpressed, imbricate in 4 series, all subequal, or often on the 
branchlets i with the lateral series keeled, the facial 
ries rather smaller. owers moncecious; males terminal, soli- 
tary; females in ei or oblong cases. ¢ Anthers decussately 
opposite, shortly stipitate on the column; cells 2-4, subglobose, 
slits subbasal. ? Bracts oie opposite, many-seriate, 1 oF 
rarely 2 lowest “Ge and 1 or rarely 2 inmost pairs & empty , 
scale ; ovules 2-3, rarely 5 at the base of the scale, erect. Frut 
an ovoid or Ee cone, scales coriaceous, long persisting. Seeds 
2-8, rarely 4-5; testa coriaceous, oblong, expanded or not into 
lateral narrow or ‘oa wings ; albumen fleshy; cotyledons usually 2. 
2004. Tauya onrenTaLIs Linn. Thuja orientalis F. 1. iii. 653 5 
F. B. I. v. 644. Biota orientalis E. D. B. 51 
Often planted. 
A small tree 
Order CXXIV. CYCADACEA, 
Shrubs or small trees, with a thick, simple, rarely forking stock: 
and a terminal crown of leaves, or stemless, with leaves arising 
from a simple or branched rhizome. Leaves in alternate series ° 
short, coriaceous scales, and of palm-like, pinnately, rarely sie 
A: divided leaves, with oe or coriaceous eee 
Flowers dicecious; males in one or more terminal cones, —_ 
of numerous fleshy, flat, or variously aia scales, crow 
