CHARACTERISTICS OF CEPHALOTAXI = 24t 
flower—and rdéfos (Yew); while the other effort in 
nomenclature, Podocarpus, is traced to sodés (foot) 
and xapzros (fruit), in reference to the swollen stalk 
or peduncle of the fruits; an example of word- 
painting that we must remark, en passant, must be 
to some painfully reminiscent of that human frailty 
we commonly call gout. 
Their appearance too, comely as we think it in 
approved places, hardly incites pictorial notice. 
There is no record, poetical or even prosaic, as far 
as we know, of Youth sporting with Amaryllis in their 
subtle shade, or Dryad dancing beneath their canopy. 
Maori maidens may, for all we know, have played 
such pranks under their spacious boughs, for the 
Podocarpus Totara, in its native soil, is second only 
in repute to the giant Kauri Pine (Agathis Australis) 
of New Zealand fame ; and the New Zealander, on 
a visit to the Mother Country, in spite of the rather 
abject appearance it presents here, if perchance a 
sight of it meets his eye, hails it as an old friend and 
pays meet adoration to it as a household god. 
We will now treat of the family differences of the 
Cephalotaxi, inter se. The C. Drupacea is easily 
distinguished from the C. Pedunculata and the C. 
Fortunei by its shorter leaves, with their fewer stomata 
and other differences referred to in the table, p. 298. 
When we attempt to explore the shifting grounds 
of the family differences of the C. Pedunculata and 
the C. Fortunei we near trouble. Parents, and those 
very intimate with them, can, it is said, often when 
others farther afield signally fail, recognize human 
twins of closest resemblance. Whether it may be 
accounted a confession of weakness or not, the 
differences between these two species of trees must 
have caused many novices as much bewilderment 
in dissociation as ever pair of heavenly twins caused 
any one inside a nursery, or outside a family circle. 
