330 PODOCARPITS. 



No. 7. PoDOCARPUS Chinensis, Wallich, the Chinese Podo- 



carpus. 

 Syn. Podocarpus macrophylla Maki, Endlicliev. 

 Makoya, Pin. Wob. 

 Maki, Siebold. 

 Makayij Lawson, 

 Makoyi, Hort. 

 Vriesiana, Hort. 

 Miquelia, Hort. 

 „ Taxus Chinensis, Roxburgh. 



„ Makoyi, Hort. 

 „ Juniperus Chinensis, Roxburgh. 

 Leaves linear-lanceolate, reflexed on the margins, slightly 

 pointed, closely placed, alternate, somewhat two-rowed, and 

 reflected on the margins, green above and glaucous below on 

 the younger ones, but the older ones are of a paler colour, with 

 an elevated straight rib along the middle on the upper surface, 

 terminating in an obtuse point, and from one and three- 

 quarters to three inches long, and from two to three lines wide. 

 Branches erect, spreading, alternate, or opposite, or some- 

 times somewhat vertical. Branchlets short and slender. Male 

 flowers numerous, axillary towards the extremities of the 

 branches, frequently connected in threes on the same peduncle, 

 and rather more than an inch long ; female flowers on lateral 

 foot-stalks, with a fleshy receptacle nearly an inch long. Fruit 

 cylindrical, oblong, obtuse-pointed, or slightly tapering to the 

 base when young, but when old more globular, of a shining 

 green, tolerably intense, and covered with a glaucous powder. 

 The males and females are on separate plants, the male one 

 being in general more delicate, its branches more erect, mucli 

 shorter, and not so thickly furnished with leaves, which in 

 general are more glaucous, not so long, a little broader, and 

 more obtuse than those on the female plant. 



A large bush, or small tree, with a straight stem, found 

 abundantly in China and Japan. 



The Chinese name for this species is " Sin-koja-Maki " (the 



