356 PODOCARPCJS. 



Section III. DACRYCARPUS. Endlicher, ou the Dacrt- 



DIUM-FRUITED PoDOCARPS. 



Flowers solitary and terminal. 



■Receptacle fleshy with the axis of the short spike, without 

 bracts. 



Leaves many-formed, either three-sided, needle-shaped, and 

 in five rows, or in two rows, spreading, linear, and fiat. 



Large trees, natives of Java and New Zealand. 



No. 54. PoDOCAEPUS CUPEESSINA, R. Brown, the Cypress-like 

 Podocarpus. 



Syn. Podocarpus imbricata, Blwme. 



„ Horsfieldii, Wallicli. 



„ Taxodium Horsfieldii, Knight. 

 „ Glyptostrobus Horsfieldii, Knight. 



Leaves opposite, linear-falcate, and spreading, in two rows 

 on the lesser branchlets, but arranged in five rows, loosely im- 

 bricated, needle-shaped, three-sided or awl-shaped, acute, and 

 spiny-pointed on the principal and lateral branches; from 

 three to eight ]ines long, and from one half to three-quarters 

 of a line broad, of a bright glossy green colour on both 

 faces, very slender, soft, slightly concave, tapering to each 

 end, but least to the base, and very acute at the point on 

 the adult ones. Branches slender, reflected, or pendent, 

 but sometimes with the upper ones ascending, regtdarly 

 divided, very numerous, and covered with scale-formed leaves 

 of various lengths, closely adhering at the base ; lateral ones 

 much divided, very slender, alternate, in two rows, and more 

 or less distant. Branchlets very short, slender, two-rowed, 

 and thickly covered with spreading leaves, until they almost 

 touch each other. Fruit solitary, terminal, on short pendent 

 branchlets, surrounded by leaves, a little longer, and more 

 spreading than the others. Receptacle fleshy, almost the 

 length of the fruit, and a little thickened. , 



