500 CONIFERE. [ Dacrydium. 
4), all parts glabrous; leaves variously shaped and of 2 sorts, 
the one scale-like and densely imbricate, ovate-linear, blunt, 
mucronate or truncate, the others acicular, about 4-8 lin. long, 
pungent-acute, somewhat 4-cornered, slightly curved ; male catkins 
linear-cylindrical, blunt, the anther-bearing bracts ovate, acute or 
acuminate, with 2 almost globular anthers underneath; female 
catkins and nuts solitary and arising laterally from long. slender 
branchlets ; nuts oval-oblong, blunt, about 14 lin. long. 
Has.—Burma, without locality (probably Tenasserim). 
NAGEIA, Gaertn. 
fleshy thickened rachis. Embryo at the summit of the mealy 
albumen.—Evergreen trees, rarely shrubs, with 1- or more-nerved 
broad or narrow leaves. 
Leaves opposite or nearly so, many-nerved, oblong-lanceolate . N. latifolia. 
Leaves scattered, 1-nerved, linear to linear-lanceolate . 3 ae 
arising by 2-5 from a short, few-bracted, axillary peduncle, 
cylindrical, blunt, the anther-bearing bracts ovate, acuminate, 
minutely toothed ; female catkins 1-flowered, on a fleshy thickened 
rachis; fruits almost globular, fleshy, the size of a small cherry, 
bluish black, solitary, and resting on a thick, fleshy, few-bracted 
receptacle. 
Has-—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of the Martaban and Tenas- 
serim hills, ascending into the damp hill forests.—s- = Meta: 
2. N. bracteata (Podocarpus bracteatus, Bl.) —Thit-min—A® 
evergreen tree (40—50+15—20+4—6), all parts glabrous ; 
leaves linear, 4-6 (in saplings up to 8) in. long, 1-nerved, more OF 
less rigidly coriaceous, acuminate, or in old leaves acute, Pe 
