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with a sharp, rigid mucro at the point, slightly thickened and 

 convex on the upper surface, with a slight furrow, or little 

 concave glaucous bands on the under part, on each side, 

 of a reddish mid-rib. Branches verticUIate, very rarely alter- 

 nate, spread out, or declining, and not numerous or branching. 

 Branchlets few in number, spreading, opposite, or in threes, 

 very rarely scattered singly, but slightly channelled. Fruit 

 unknown. 



A tall tree, with a straight cylindrical stem, found on the 

 east coast of New Holland. 



No. 24. PoDOCAKPUS Lamberti, Klotzsch, Lambert's Podo- 



carpus. ' 



Leaves regularly linear, sharp-pointed, and tapering to the 

 base, straight or falcate, without any foot-stalks, slender, and 

 loosely scattered, smooth, or nearly so, on the upper surface, and 

 flat, from one inch and a quarter to one inch and three-quarters 

 long, and two lines broad. Male catkins short, in fascicules, 

 on axillary foot-stalks, scaly at the base, foot-stalks of the fruit 

 much longer than those of the receptacle, which is one-fruited. 

 Fruit globular or oblong, shining, small, and about a quarter 

 of an inch long. 



A robust tree, found on the mountains of Brazil. 



No. 25. PODOCAEPUS LEPTOSTACHYA, Blume, the Slender- 

 spiked Podocarpus. 

 Leaves somewhat in whorls, linear-lanceolate, alternate, 

 straight, or sometimes slightly falcate, leathery, and closely 

 placed on the shoots, from two to five inches long, and from 

 three to six lines broad, tolerably thick, acute, with a pungent 

 point, flat, shining, and tapering to the base, which is frequently 

 a little twisted, of a dull green colour on the upper surface, but 

 much paler below. Branches and branchlets much divided, 

 somewhat in whorls, cylindrical, and with the stem and prin- 

 cipal branches covered with a rough bark, full of cracks. Male 

 catkins sometimes solitary, or in pairs, or in threes, furnished 

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