PODOCARPUS NUBIGENA AND P. TOTARA 245 
where it has contrived to keep the even tenor of its 
way, and one such city of refuge has a specimen 
found at Lianarth (Mr. P. D. Williams), near the 
Lizard in Cornwall. The leaf is half the size of that 
of the P. Chilina, and shows without microscopic 
aid two very distinct stomatic bands between two 
green margins and central bands, each nearly as wide 
as the stomata row. 
The P. Neriifolius is mentioned in our Table, a 
tree sometimes called P. Macrophylla var. Acutissima. 
_ It is described in Plante Wilsoniane (Sargent) “ as 
a handsome tree growing in the warmer part of 
Szechuan, and more especially on Mt. Omei.” — If 
the latter situation may read promising, the sentence 
preceding seems to hold out no hope for it here on 
earth with us. 
The P. Alpinus is only a four-foot bush with us, 
but highly recommended as hardy in Veitch’s book 
of Conifers. Whether it is a more mountainous 
relation of the P. Totara—it was once called the 
P. Totara Alpina—or not, it comes from the same 
quarter of the globe. 
The P. Totara we have previously alluded to. As 
a tree it has yet its spurs to win with us. 
In New Zealand it is a tree ornamented with 
dark-green leaves, and much in request for timber 
purposes. Here its leaves, so far, in early stages 
present a dingy yellow colour. In a four or five 
years’ experience of it here (Stanage Park, Radnor- 
shire), at an elevation of 750 ft. above the level of 
the sea, it wears the aspect of a plant, with a de- 
pressing lack of healthful joy about its appearance, 
engaged in an uphill struggle for existence which so 
far it has maintained. 
We must confess from this, our own, experience 
of an attempt to extend to it a welcome, that it does 
not look so well pleased a guest in'our midst as we 
