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The same species apparently i i3 in cultivation ed in this ow 
ind it is suggested in the * Gardeuers' Chronicle " (3rd series, xi. 
P 113), | that it might be the “ P. pectinata of ewes ind Gris, a 
ne o 
* the authors; but we have not sueceeded in discovering whether or no 
ur wc hai. been published." 
suggestion is a good one, and we have no hesitation in referring 
the plant to the species in question; but Brongniart and Gris did not 
T d it under Podocarpus. They deseribed it ( Bulletin de la Société 
7 ce, xvi. p. 330) as Dacrydium JPancheri, with a 
attached the name Podocarpus pectinata to the specimens. Bentham 
= Hooker (Genera Plantarum, iii. p. 435) refer this and some allied 
ies to their section aerycarpus of Podocarpus, and following this 
te must write PER. pectinata; Pancher. 
about 50 ka own species of PODOCARPUS, and they a 
istributed o over the sub-tropical an and sub-alpine regions "of both Bene 
The followin 
heres. g are. xao cer by. living examples in the Kew ` 
ollections:— —— 
ee in the open air: P. alpina, R. Br., Frsmanin; and P. 
a, Ri«h. (** Maniu,” * Pino”), Chili 
* Cultivated i in the ‘Temperate Hovse (Winter Garden): P. y 
BL, Java ; P. DIEA R: Br. (* Kimerak," “ vues etri "), Java; P. 
Eu Coal . Rich., New Zealand ; P. elon L'Herit. ( 
l et | Ob 






; P. pectinata, , Panch, New ene d. x 
eana, Wk, Tini, Cuba ; P.  salicifoli ia, Kl Karsi, Wes 





Straw Herria; are often tried in the s tropika, but with varyin success. 
the cool climate of the hills they do very well for a time, but even 
ere : appear to deteriorate, and: t require to be renewed 
onem packed in Wardian or dry cases travel - 
many Ai to one-half being lost in - 








Perot 
all be very y died à io ra, ‘the stra swberry duis wir miy attempts 
ne have not been a success hitherto ; ‘as = plants raised from 
Us harked back to the old Alpine va ety. 
nevertheless, v very good st wberries “both in Ootacanmund 
ls 
aie fying to Ong mesticate our. ph ila strawberry of ‘these hills, but Y 
js: I have done no wonders wi = 
A. Henderson Runnymed s Flr under ' date of foe 12, 





