348 PODOCARPUS. 



leathery, spreading in all directions, pungent, smooth, and 

 thick, from one to one inch and three-quarters long, and one 

 line broad, tapering to a very sharp point, thickened on the 

 edges, and with an elevated rib along the middle. Branches 

 slender and spreading. Male flowers in clusters, and axillary. 

 Fruit on axillary foot-stalks, much longer than those of the 

 receptacles, which are somewhat club-shaped, and one-fruited. 

 Seed globular, solitary, and about as large as a pea. 



A tree, found growing about Port Jackson, and in the eastern 

 part of New Holland. 



It is not hardy. 



No. 42. PoDOCAEPTTS Sprucei, Parlatore, Spruce's Podocarpus. 



Leaves thickly crowded along the branches; erectly-spread- 

 ing, linear-lanceolate, acute, and somewhat spiny-pointed, 

 leathery in texture, tapering to a short petiole, somewhat 

 twisted at the base, very slightly revolute on the margins, and 

 marked along the upper surface by the sunken mid-rib, and 

 from one to two inches long, and two lines wide. Fruit small, 

 solitary, and globular. 



A ^tree, found on the Andes of Peru, of which little at 

 present is known. 



No. 43. PoDOCAEPUS Teysmanni, Miquel, Teysmann's Podo- 

 carpus. 



Leaves scattered or subverticillate, broadly-lanceolate, 

 leathery in texture, straight or somewhat falcate, tapering to 

 the foot-stalk, and somewhat twisted at the base, with the mid- 

 rib on the upper side very prominent, and on the under one 

 but slightly so, and from four to five inches long, and three- 

 fourths of an inch broad. Fruit unknown. 



A kind found along the sea-shore, in the western part 

 of Sumatra, and on Mount Poe, and at the base of the 

 mountains of Gunang and Mattang, near Sarawak in the 

 Island of Borneo. 



