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Seeds singly in each fruit, with the kernel ruminated 

 like the inside of the common nutmeg, and covered 

 with a hard, smooth, bony shell. 



Gen. Cephalotaxus, Siebold. Leaves linear, alternate, or op- 

 posite, and in two rows. 



Flowers, male and female on separate plants. 



Fruit drupaceous, and two or three in a head. 



Seeds solitary, nut-like internally, and with a hony 

 shell, enclosed in a fleshy covering, but naked at the point. 



Gen. Salisbueia, Smith. Leaves fan-shaped, on long foot-stalks, 

 lobed, or jagged on the margins, and covered on both 

 sides with fan-shaped straight nerves. 



Flowers, male and female on separate plants. 



Fruit drupaceous, mostly single from abortion, and 

 enclosed at the base in a small fleshy cup. 



Seeds solitary, and covered with a hard bony shell. 



Gen. Phyllocladus, Richard. Leaves minute scale-hke bodies 

 on the margins of the branchlets. Branchlets leaf-like, 

 opposite, pinnated, or fan-shaped, and feather-nerved. 



Flowers, male and female separate, but on the same 

 plant. 



Fruit in small connected heads, with a fleshy disk. 

 Seeds solitary, very small, half enclosed at the base, 

 and nut-like, with a thin shell. 



Teibe II. PODOCARPE^, the Podocarpus Tribe. 



Flowers monoecious or dicecious. 



Fruit drupaceous, seeds inverted. 



Leaves linear or lanceolate, and one or many nerved. 



Gen. PoDOCAEPUS, L'Heritier. Leaves either opposite, alter- 

 nate, or scattered, linear or oblong, and ona-nerved. 



Flowers, male and female mostly on separate plants, 

 •but sometimes monoecious. 



Fruit drupaceous, inverted, and adhering. 

 Seeds bony shelled. 



