396 TAXUS, OR 



branches to tlie ground, found plentiful on the mountains of 

 Guajolota and Keal del Monte, in Mexico. 

 It is tolerably hardy. 



No. 7. Taxus Wallichiana, Zuccarini, Dr. Wallich's Yew. 

 Syn. Taxus virgata, Wallich. 



■f ( Royle, and other writers on 

 nuciiera, | ^^^.^^ Ooniferse. 



„ „ baccata Indica, Madden. 



Leaves linear, tapering to an acute point, rather distant, 

 slightly curved or falcate, regularly two-rowed, alternate, con- 

 vex above, and revolute on the margins, from one inch to one 

 inch and a half long, and one line broad, with rather a long, 

 twisted foot-stalk, decurrent at the base, of a deep glossy green, 

 with an elevated nerve along the middle on the upper surface, 

 much paler and not glossy below ; buds small, with persistent, 

 ovate, blunt-poiated scales. Branches long, slender, much 

 spreading, and of a light-brown colour. Branchlets very 

 slender, long, undivided, more or less pendent, and nearly the 

 same size all their length. Male flowers lateral on the under 

 side of the branchlets, and consisting of a number of scales, out 

 of which eight or ten connected anthers grow, like minute 

 clusters of primroses ; the female ones, which are on a separate 

 plant, are enveloped in scales, from which they gradually 

 emerge, and when ripe, are open at the top, displaying the nut 

 or bony-sheUed seed seated in a red, fleshy cup. Seed-leaves 

 in twos. 



A fine evergreen tree, forming beautiful forests in Northern 

 India, some trees measuring fifteen feet in girth four feet from 

 the ground. It is common on the Mountains of Nepal, between 

 8,000 and 10,000 feet of elevation, and in Kamaon, Gurhwal, 

 Kedarkantft, Sirmore, on the Mountains of Tibet, and between 

 Moulmein and Northern Siam, as well as in Sikkim, where it 

 does not descend below 9,000 feet. 



This species is common in the British Himalayas and Bho- 

 tan, flourishing best between 8,000 and 9,000 feet of elevation^ 



