54° THE GYMNOSPERMS OF THE MALAY PENINSULA, 
CONIFERAH, 
Trees or shrubs usually evergreen, with coriaceous ovate, 
linear or acicular leaves sometimes reduced to scale leaves. 
Flowers unisexual usually on distinct trees, Perianth none, 
Males in catkins of scales bearing two or more anther cells, 
Females in catkins of scales each bearing one or two winged 
seeds, or solitary terminal ovules, on a seale leaf. Ovules naked, 
erect or decurved, winged, when in cones; drupaceous when 
solitary. 
Distribution whole world chiefly in temperate climates. 
Leaves ovate, fruit a cone Agathis 
Fruit drupaceous, Ovule erect, Dacrydium 
Ovule decurved adnate to the scale. Podocarpus 
AGATHIS. 
Big tree with coriaceous ovate leaves. Male cones cylin- 
dric of numerous scales bearing ten or twelve pollensacs, 
Female cone large more or less globose of large scales spirally 
arranged imbricate with broad tips. Ovuliferous seale thin and 
confluent with the scale. Ovules 1 or 2 adn’ate to the scale. 
Seed 1 compressed winged, albumen fleshy, cotyledons 2. 
A. loranthifola, Salisb.- Trans. Lion Soe. VIII. 312-4. 995 44: 
rhomboidalis, Warburg Monsunia J, 184 t. VIII. « A. 
Danmara, Rich. Conifer 83.-t. 19. Dammara alba, Ramph. 
Herb.Ambon II. 174 t. 57. D. Onrentalis, Lamb. Pin. Ed. 
OF ting Coe ks 
A lofty straight-stemmed tree with flaky bark very resini- 
ferous. Leaves in pairs stiffly coriaceous, lanceolate, elliptic 
lanceolate or ovate obtuse, base very shortly narrowed, 2 to 3 
inches long, 1-14 inch wide with a decurrent petiole ¢ inch 
long. Male spike cylindric obtuse, 2 to 24 inches long. Seales 
; inch long, oblong, obovate with a straight claw, apex broadly 
rounded. Pollensacs 10 or 12. Female spike cylindrie obtuse 
2 inches long. Cone sub-globose, flattened at the top. 
Pahang, Gunong Tahan (Robinson). Selangor, Bukit 
Kutu: Semargkok Pass, track to Sempang mines. Perak 
Waterfall Hill Taiping (Wray} Common at Maxwells hill and 
upwards. Penang Hill 2500 feet (Curtis), (Fox 12706) Kedah, 
Gunong Jerai (Ridley). 
Distrib. Malay Archipelago. ~ Poko Damar Minyak.”’ 
Warburg. le. broke up the Agathis of the Malay region into 
a number of species very imperfectly described. The Malay 
peninsular one of which he seems only to have seen a specimen 
from Lambert’s collection of doubtful origin, but probably 
Penang, he describes as A. rhomboidalis. The differences in 
his various species seem to be so slight, and probably either 
Jour, Straits Branch 
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