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Section II. STACHYCARPUS, Endlicher, or the Spike- 



FETJITED PODOCARPUS. 



Flowers, in spikes, provided with bractsj and frequently all 

 abortive except the upper ones. 



Fleshy receptacle, wanting. 



Leaves, alternate, or more frequently in two rows, linear, and 

 one-nerved. 



All trees or bushes, natives of the Cape of Good Hope, New 

 Zealand, and the temperate parts of South America. 



No. 47. PoDOCARPXJS Alpina, Eooher, the Alpine Podocarpus. 



Leaves thickly scattered, or somewhat two-rowed, along the 

 branches, linear, obtuse, with a small spine at the apex, straight, 

 or slightly falcate, and flat, with a slight furrow along the 

 middle, and deep green above, pale green with a prominent rib 

 on the under side, decurrent, and somewhat twisted at the 

 base, and from three to four lines long, and nearly one line 

 broad. Branches long, slender, and very spreading. Branch- 

 lets very slender, and of various lengths, mostly in distinct 

 whorls, and bright green. Male catkins solitary, or in fascicles, 

 cylindrical, sessile, and one-third of an inch long. Fruit 

 small, with a fleshy peduncle, unequal sided, oblique, and bifid 

 at the top. 



A spreading bush, from ten to twelve feet high, found on 

 the Alpine mountains, in the south-eastern part of New Hol- 

 land, and on Mount Wellington, and the elevated plains of 

 Marlborough in Tasmania, at an elevation of from 3000 to 

 4000 feet. 



No. 48. Podocarpus Andina, Poeirpig, the Andes Podocarpus, 



\ or Plum Fir. 



Syn. Podocarpus spicata, Pceppig, not Brown. 

 „ Taxus spicata, Bombey. 

 „ Prumnopitys elegans, Pliilippi. 



Leaves regularly linear, tapering to both ends, and either 

 thickly scattered or two-rowed along the branchlets, those on 



