342 PODOCARPUS. 



quarter to two inches long on the principal branches, but gene- 

 rally only from three-quarters to an inch long, and from one 

 and three-quarters to three lines broad on the other parts of 

 the tree. Branches in whorls and spreading ; branchlets angu- 

 lar and glaucous. Male catkins cylindrical, solitary, or two or 

 three together, in short, erectly-spreading, axillary, bracteate 

 fascicles, and from three to four lines long ; receptacle thick, 

 fleshy, oblique, and slightly bilobed. Fruit globular, half an 

 inch long, and about the same wide, and covered with a glau- 

 cous bloom. 



A large tree, with a spreading head, and verticUlate branches, 

 and angular glaucous branchlets, found at the Cape of Good 

 Hope. 



It is tender. 



No. 30. PoDOCAEPUS KEGLECTA, Blume, the Neglected Podo- 



carpus. 



Syn. Podocarpiis Junghuhniana, Miquel. 



Leaves somewhat in two rows, or scattered, linear-lanceolate, 

 acute-pointed, and more or less reflected on the margins, from 

 two to four inches long, and from half to three-quarters of an 

 inch broad, with an elevated rib on both sides, but most on the 

 under side, and tapering into a very short twisted foot-stalk. 

 Branches opposite, or in whorls, cylindrical, and reddish- 

 brown; branclilets opposite, two-rowed, and almost angular; 

 buds covered with scales. Male catkins cylindrical, in bundles, 

 on short, axillary peduncles, surrounded at the base with con- 

 cave membranaceous scales, which soon fall off". 



A tall tree, growing tipwards of 100 feet high, found in 

 forests on the western part of the Island of Java, at an eleva- 

 tion of 5000 feet, particularly at " Karang," in the province of 

 Bantam, and about " Pangaranghu." 



It is very tender. 



