Contferea— Torreya. 455 
with similarly ruminated albumen. It is found on the Sierra 
Nevada Mountains of California. 
3. LT. nucifera.— small tree of extremely slow growth with 
linear sharply-pointed scattered or distichous dark green shin- 
ing leaves from 1 to 14 inch long. Fruit oblong-ovate, about 
9 lines long. Native of Japan. 
4. T. taxifolia.— A tree with spreading branches from 20 to 
40 feet high in its native habitat, but of exceedingly slow 
growth in Britain. Leaves rigid, linear, very acute, yellowish 
green, from 1 to 14 inch long. Fruit usually more than an 
inch long, oblong, glaucous green. A native of Florida. 
23. PODOCARPUS. 
Evergreen shrubs or trees with linear-lanceolate or oblong 
seittered or distichous leaves. Flowers sub-dicecious. Female 
flowers solitary, axillary. Fruit drupoid, on a thick fleshy ped- 
uncle, which suggested the generic name, from rods, a foot, and 
xap7ros, a fruit. This genus is numerous in species, but they 
are chiefly from warm or tropical countries, from Japan south- 
wards to Australasia, and in South America. A few are suffi- 
ciently hardy to bear our climate. 
1. P. Japénica, syn. P. Chinénsis, P. coridcea of gardens 
(not of Richard), and Tévus Japénica.—An erect slow-growing 
shrub, closely resembling the Irish Yew both in habit and 
foliage, but the branches are stouter and the leaves from 2 to 3 
inches long and 2 to 3 lines broad, and silvery beneath. A 
handsome hardy shrub, native of Japan. 
P. Andina, syn. Prumnopitys élegans, is a Chilian specics 
with lanceolate coriaceous glossy dark green foliage, silvery 
beneath. P. nubigena, from the same country, with linear- 
lanceolate leaves; and P. Korawna is a very ornamental 
Japanese species of recent introduction. 
24, CEPHALOTAXUS. 
This genus with the foliage of the Yews has the dicecions 
flowers in clusters, and the fruits large and plum-like, and 
two or three together. The name is a compound of xepanri), a 
head, and td&s, arrangement, from the disposition of the 
flowers. About five or six species are known, natives of China 
and Japan. 
1. (. Fortinet, syn. C. Fortinet mas, C. Fortinet péndula, 
and (. filiformis.—A tree from 40 to 50 feet high with 
