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straight, but sometimes slightly falcate, tapering to a long acute 

 spiny point, somewhat lanceolate at the summit, and tapering 

 into a very short twisted foot-stalk, decurrent at the base; from 

 two to two inches and a half long, and one line and a half 

 broad, of a pale yellowish green, without any mid-rib, and 

 slightly convex on the upper surface, but much paler on the 

 under one, and marked longitudinally on each side of the centre 

 nerve, with a narrow sunken band, whitish when young, but 

 afterwards assuming a brown colour. Buds covered with per- 

 sistent oval scales. Male catkins axillary, and solitary ; female 

 flowers in twos or threes on short peduncles, and axillary. 

 Fruit elliptic, and from one inch and a quarter to one inch and 

 a half long, with a thin fleshy or leathery green covering, quite 

 smooth when ripe outside, and very similar to that of Torreya 

 taxifolia. Seeds with a hard bony shell. Seed-leaves in twos. 



A small bushy-headed tree, growing from twenty to forty 

 feet high, with spreading more or less horizontal branches ; 

 found growing on the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. 



Timber yellowish, heavy, and fine-grained ; but all parts of 

 the tree emit a very disagreeable odour, when either bruised 

 or burned, and is called by the Californian emigrants the 

 Stinking Yew, or Californian Nutmeg. 



It is quite hardy. 



No. 2. ToEREyANUCiFERAj^iiCcarmi, the Nut-bearing Torreya. 



( Thunberg, not Wallich, and 

 Syn. Taxus nucifera, ( ^^^^^ j^^^i^^ ^^^ ters; 



„ Caryotaxus nucifera, Zuccarini. 

 „ Podocarpus nucifera, Persoon. 



„ Coreana, Van Houtte. 



Leaves linear, rounded at the base, and somewhat two-rowed 

 on the branchlets, but more or less distant, and scattered round 

 the leading shoots, quite straight, flat, leathery, and tapering to 

 rather a long, spiny acute point, mostly curved downwards ; 

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



