456 Contfere—Cephalotaxus. 
distichous linear straight flat acute leaves about 3 inches long, 
dark shining green above and glaucous beneath. Fruit oval or 
oblong, one-seeded, with a thin purplish flesh. A very distinct 
and ornamental tree with spreading branches in regular whorls. 
It is a native of Northern China, and somewhat tender in this 
country. 
2. C. drupacea, syn. C. Fortinet femina.—A small tree 
from 20 to 30 feet high. Leaves crowded, in two ranks, rigid, 
linear, curved, from 1 to 14 inch long, yellowish glossy green 
above, glaucous beneath. Fruit purple, oval-oblong, about 1 
inch inlength. From China and Japan, rather hardier than the 
preceding, and said to succeed best in a moist shady situation. 
C. pedunculita, syn. C. Harringténit, is a Japanere species 
with long dark green leaves and large drupaceous fruits on 
long peduncles; and C. wmbraculiferu is another Japanesu 
species, with shorter leaves and still larger fruits. 
25. SALISBURIA. 
Only one species of this genus has been described. It is 
a deciduous tree with fan-shaped petiolate leaves, dicecious 
flowers, and pedunculate 1-seeded drupoid fruits upon a fleshy 
disk. Dedicated to an English botanist. 
1. 8. adiantifolia, syn. Gingho biloba. Maiden-hair Tree.— 
This is one of the most striking of hardy exotic trees, and one 
which differs so much in habit and foliage from all others 
belonging to this order that in the absence of flowers or fruit it 
would be almost impossible to assign it to its proper position in 
the Vegetable Kingdom. It forms a large handsome tree with 
fan-shaped coriaceous pale-green leaves on long peduncles. The 
veins of the leaves are very dense and parallel, and the blade 
is usually deeply bilobate. The male flowers are in slender 
axillary catkins, and the female flowers are fascicled and ped- 
unculate. The fruit is a one-seeded fleshy globular or oval 
drupe, about one inch in diameter, partially imbedded in the 
fleshy cup-shaped disk. This tree is a native of China and 
Japan, and was introdueed into this country a little more than 
a century since; but it is said that only the male plant is in 
cultivation. 
Nagéia includes several tender Japanese shrubs or trees 
usually incorporated with Podocétrpus. They have ovate or 
lanceolate ribbed leaves and drupaceous fruits. NV. Japdnica 
