14 FAMILIES OF FLOWERING PLANTS. 
usually invested with a hard or pulpy integument known as an aril. 
Frequently the fruit resembles a plum in having an outer fleshy coat- 
ing and a hard seed within. The foliage exhibits more diversity than 
in the Pine family. 
Tribe Podocarpeae.—Four genera, three of eastern Asia, and one 
containing a single Patagonian species. The largest genus, Podocar- 
pus, includes about 40 species, several of which are cultivated as or- 
namental shrubs, 
Tribe Taxeae.—Four genera, two confined to eastern Asia and 
Malaysia; the others are Zazus, the yew, with about 8 species of tem- 
perate regions; and Zumion (Torreya) an interesting genus with a re- 
markable distribution, namely, one species in Florida and California, 
and two in China and Japan. The English yew (Zaxus baccata) be 
comes a large forest tree, and is highly valued for its timber, as is also 
the Oregon yew (7. brevifolia). The yews of the eastern United 
States, on the other hand, are low straggling shrubs, ornamental only 
for their red, cup-shaped fruits, which are eagerly sought by birds. 
The stinking cedar of Florida (Zumion taxifol/um) is one of the rarest 
North American trees, being confined to a linited area on the Apala- 
chicola river. The name isin allusion to the odor exhaled by the 
herbage when bruised. The foliage is dark green and very handsome 
(see Fig. 9). The fruit is large and plum-like in appearance. 
