334 PODOCABPUS. 



No. 13. PoDOCARPUS ELATA, R Broivn, the Lofty Podocarpus. 



Leaves alternate, spreading, linear, tapering to an obtuse 

 point at both extremities, from three inches and a half to four 

 inches long, and about four lines broad. Fruit axillary, soli- 

 tary, and one-seeded on a slender receptacle ; receptacle cylin- 

 drical, almost club-shaped, with the seed globular. 



A tree, of which little is known, found on the eastern part of 

 New Holland at Rockingham Bay. 



No. 14. PoDOCAEPUS ELONGATA, L'Heritier, the Elongated 

 Podocarpus. 

 Syn. Podocarpus pruinosa, Zeyher. 



„ „ linearis, Vcm Iloiitte. 



„ „ mucronata, Hort. 



„ Taxus elongata, Solander. 



„ „ Capensis, Lmnarch. 



Leaves linear, or oblong-lanceolate, straight, rarely falcate, 

 attenuated, stiff, tolerably thick, and rather smooth at the 

 edges; from one inch and a quarter to one and three-quarters 

 long, and two lines broad, of a dark green or glaucous blue 

 colour, with a rib along the upper surface, a little elevated, but 

 hardly visible on the under side, sessile, or regularly tapering 

 to a short foot-stalk at the base, very bluntly and regularly 

 rounded on the top, and terminating in a short mucro ; some- 

 times a little pointed or obtuse, but frequently wanting. 

 Branches opposite, or in whorls, upper ones ascending, lower 

 ones sometimes deflected, and spreading. Branchlets short, and 

 slightly angular. Male flowers cylindrical, with numerous 

 spirally imbricated anthers. Peduncles axillary, solitary, and 

 from four to five lines long, terminated by a much shorter re- 

 ceptacle. Receptacle frequently fleshy, thick, oblique, slightly 

 bifid on the top, and carrying an oval or globular seed about 

 the size of a gooseberry, which is marbled on the outside. 



A large tree, from 30 to 70 feet high, covered with a grayish- 

 -brown bark when old, and glaucous on the young shoots ; found 



