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tapering at the base into a short stout foot-stalk, regularly and 

 briefly terminating in a thick obtuse point, never acute, but 

 frequently black. 



A large tree, supposed to be found on the Andes of Pata- 

 gonia and Chili, but of which little is known. 



No. 11. PODOCAEPUS DISCOLOR, Blume, the Discoloured 

 Podocarpus. 



Leaves thickly set on, or scattered along the shoots, linear- 

 lanceolate, fj^uite straight, leathery, stiff, and tapering to a 

 sharp pungent point, from one inch and a half to two inches 

 and a half long, and rather more than a quarter of an inch 

 wide, attenuated at the base, and more or less reflected on the 

 margins, slightly concave, and of a bright glossy green above, 

 glaucous below, with an elevated rib on both faces, but most 

 projecting on the under one. Branches in whorls, lateral ones 

 ascending ; buds oval, terminal one solitary, and covered with 

 scales. Flowers and fruit unknown. 



A large tree, covered with a reddish bark ; foimd in the vast 

 forests on the eastern part of Java, particularly on the most 

 elevated parts of the volcanic mountains of Tjerimai and Te- 

 ribon. 



It is very tender. 



No. 12. PoDOCAEPUS Deouyniana, Mueller, Drouyn'a 

 Podocarpus. 



Leaves thickly scattered along the branchlets, erectly spread- 

 ing, rather leathery, straight, linear, tapering to a somewhat 

 fine spiny point and with a short and somewhat twisted foot- 

 stalk, and from two to two and a half inches long and one 

 line broad. Eeceptacle thick and oblong. Fruit ovate-globose, 

 with an acute point at the apex, and three-quarters of an inch 

 long and half an inch broad. 



A small tree found along the banks of the Tom River in the 

 south-western part of New Holland. 



