56 THE GYMNOSPERMS OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
D. Beccarii, Parl. Dec. Prodr. XVI. 2 294 Pilger, le. 52. 
A dwarf bushy tree about 15 feet tall or less, leaves all 
acicular, half-an-inch long in barren stems, 4 inch long in 
fertile branches, angled and groved. Male cones not yet 
known. Female flowers ovule ellipsoid, ovoid, blunt, § inch 
long, one or two on a short branch with numerous short 
acicular leaves. 
Malacea, Mt. Ophir (Hullett, Ridley 3155) Perak, Bujong 
Malacca at 4000 feet (Curtis 3302) Selangor, Mengkuang Lebar 
at £800 feet (N. Dennys) Also Borneo on Mt. Poe (Beccari. 
Foxworthy.) 
A very distinct species in its dwarf habit and absence of 
any scale leaves. The ovules are much bigger than in D. 
elatum. It seems to take the place of this latter in the southern 
part of the peninsula. 
falciforme, Pilger. Pflanzenreich 1V. 5 Taracee 45 Pi, 4 
Podocarpus falciformts Parl. Dec. Prod. XVI. 685. 
A big tree with dark colored bark leaves, distichous, 
obliquely linear sigmoid coriaceous, flat,acuminate, mucronulate, 
midrib grooved, inconspicuous, 1 to 1% inch long ¢—#% inch 
wide. Male’cone cylindric half-an-inch long, scales very small, 
ovate acute, or cuspidate. Female flowers forming a very short 
branch, scales numerous, triangular, acuminate, keeled, ovule 
1 terminal, pedicel very thick, concave above the base, when 
further advanced the branch becomes thicker and the scales 
fleshy. 
Selangor, Semangkok Pass towards the Sempang mines 
(Ridley 12068). Also in Lingga island on Gunong Dai at the 
foot of the hill up to 1000 feet (Hullett 5695) and in Sarawak 
top of Mt. Matang (Ridley 11669) and reported from the 
Philippines. 
I have seen no female flowers. The tree attains a height 
of about 80 feet with a trunk girth of 10 to 12 feet. 
PODOCARPUS. 
Trees usually unisexual. Leaves of one form ovate, 
acuminate, or linear, or of two forms acicular and linear, dis- 
tichous on the same bvanch. Male inflorescence a catkin, 
scales numerous, lanceate, acuminate with 2 anther cells. 
' Female flowers solitary, axillary or several in a short raceme. 
Bracts one or more forming a fleshy peduncle. Ovule adnate to 
the ovuliferous scale, reflexed with the micropyle below, Seed 
large or small, globose or ovoid, drupaceous, red or purple on the 
thickened fleshy peduncle. Species 40 Tropical and soxth 
temperate regions of both hemispheres. 
Jour. Straits Branch 
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