PODOCAEPUS. 357 



A fine tall tree, growing 180 feet high, well furnished with 

 spreading branches, clothed with vivid green foliage, found in 

 Java where it is called " Chomoro '), and in the Pulo-Penang, 

 and the Philippine Islands, where the natives call it "Kimerak " 

 and " Kiputrie." It constitutes one of the best timber trees on 

 the island of Java. 



No. 55. PoDOCARPUS CuMlNGil, Pwrlatove, Cuming's Podo- 



carpus. 



Leaves on the young branchlets in two rows, linear-lanceo- 

 late, falcate, somewhat four-sided, mucronate, spreading, and 

 from a quarter to one-third of an inch long, and half a line 

 broad, while those on the adult parts are linear-subulate, de- 

 current at the base, and shorter and flatter. Fruit solitary, 

 ovate-globose, pale yellow, shining, mucronate at the apex, and 

 two lines long, and about the same broad. Keceptacle broader 

 and longer, and sessile. 



A tree very full of branches and crowded branchlets, found 

 in the Philippine Islands by Cuming, and of which but little is 

 known. 



No. 56. PoDOCAEPUS DACRYDioiDES, Eicliard, the Dacrydium- 

 like Podocarpus. 



Syn. Dacrydium thuioides, Solander. 

 excelsum, Bon. 

 „ ferrugineum. Van Houtte. 



,, ' Podocarpus thuioides, R Brown. 



Leaves generally awl-shaped, decurrent, spiny-pointed, often 

 loosely imbricated, and from one to two lines long; those on 

 the larger branches and lateral ones scale-formed, scattered all 

 round, adhering at the base, more or less spreading, and very 

 acute-pointed, whUe those on the branchlets are flat, horizontal, 

 linear, curved backwards, sickle-shaped, and closely placed in 

 two rows; from two to three lines long, and about one-third of 

 a Una broad, and all more or less of a rusty-brown or copper- 



