— Pinus.) CONIFERS. 499 
1. P, kasya, Royle; Brand. For. Fl., 508.—Z%a-yu.—An ever- 
green tree (60—100+30—40+9—10), all parts glabrous, the 
shoots resinous; bark very thick, corky-lamellate and cracked 
leaves 7-9 in. long, arising by threes from a sheathed base, very 
thin, half-terete, suleate above, acute; ripe cones usually by 2 or 
3, more or less ovate, about 3 in. long, the scales woody, much 
thickened towards the apex and extended into an almost rhomboid, 
depressed-pyramidal, not zonate opercle transversed by a keel and 
terminated by a depressed umbonate tubercle. 
Has.—Forming forests in the Martaban hills at 3,000 to 7,000 ft. elevation ; 
om in the higher hills of Chittagong (Lushai country).—Fr. March.—l.—88.= 
etam, , 
REMARKS.—Wood fibrous, but rather close-grained, light, pale brown with 
darker waves, very resinous. 
acute ; cones about 8 in. long or somewha 
the scales woody, much thickened upwards and dilated into an 
almost rhomboid (or the lower ones 5-gonous) transversely zonate 
opercle thickened towards the end into a transverse ridge with a 
depréssed scar. 
Has.—Common in the hill Eng forests along the Salween river in Martaban 
ra Thoungyeen of Upper Tenasserim, at elevations from 500 to 2,500 ft.—Fr. 
r.—l, 
DACRYDIUM, Sol. 
Flowers dioecious, in catkins. Male catkins terminal, solitary, 
from ovoid to cylindrical, small. Anther-bearing bracts usually 
many, crowded and very shortly stalked. Anthers 2, l-celled, the 
cell almost globular, dehiscing outwards. Female flowers usually 
solitary, rarely collected by 3-9 in a stiff but lax spike, the rachis 
rather thick. Bracts somewhat fleshy, |-flowered. Ovary ovoid- 
the inner somewhat fleshy or coriaceous involucre gaping at the 
apex. Embryo at the summit of the mealy or granular albumen, 
With 2 eotyledons.—Evergreen trees or shrubs, with acicular laxly 
or densely imbricated leaves often dimorphous. 
1. D, elatum, Wall—<An evergreen tree (30—60+(?) +3— 
