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THE GYMNOSPERMS OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
Johor, Bukit Banang, Batu Pahat (Ridley 11192). Immense 
trees over 100 feet tall and thick in proportion. The leaves I 
got of this are 6 inches long by # inch wide, broadly linear and 
abruptly acuminate at the tip. No flower procurable. 
Pahang, Gunong Tahan (Robinson 5452) at 5-6000 feet. 
A form with very thickly coriaceous leaves rather narrow. 
Malacca Mt. Ophir, Padang Batu (3158 Ridley and 10016) 
3000 feet alt. Moderate sized tree with stiff leaves 1esembling 
specimens from Nepal (Wallich). Selangor, Bukit Hitam 
(Kelsall 2000) Penang Government Hill, (Curtis 3079) and Balik 
Pulau, a tree about 50 or 60 feet with thinner and in adults 
rather shorter leaves, resembles a plant from Tayabas, Luzon 
(Merrill 1992.) 
The distribution of this species is recorded by Pilger from 
Nepal and Khasiya, China, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes, 
Batehian, and New Guinea. 
P. polystachyus, R. Br. Mirb. Mem: Mus. XIII. 75. Bennett 
Horsf. Pl. Jav. 40. Parl: Dec. Prodr. X V1. blo. Eseries: 
A rather short much branched tree about 20 to 40 feet 
tall, with flaky bark. Branches spreading sub-whorled densely 
leafy at the tips. Leaves lanceolate, linear, narrow, narrowed 
at the tip and still more at the base, blunt, coriaceous, dark 
ereen, witha prominent midrib, 3 inches long, + inch wide, 
petiole ‘5 inch long, trees unisexual. Flower spikes male, very 
numerous, crowded in axillary tufts, yellow, 1-14 inch long, % 
inch through, anthers densely crowded. Female flowers seve- 
ral together or solitary in the axils of the upper leaves, pedun- 
cle very short, zo inch long, receptacle swollen, cylindric, 
¢ inch, with a longitudinal groove and a single short, conic, 
acute leaf. Ovule club-shaped. Ripe seed red, ¢ inch long, 
ellipsoid. 
Common in mangrove swamps; Singapore Kranji, Changi 
(Ridley 165) Serangoon (3367); Pahang, Rumpin river and 
Kwala Pahang (Ridley 1441); Johor. Also in Sumatra. 
Native name S’tada, Sintada. 
A curious form from the Changi beach No. 6001 of my 
collection, has longer leaves, 6 inches long and 4 inch wide 
with very slender spikes 1 to 2 inches long with remote 
anthers. 
Podocarpus cupressinus, R. Br. Mirb. Geogr. Conif. in Mem. Mus. 
XITI. 75. -Bennett.:R. Br. Pl. Jav. rar. 1. 35 t 0s same 
Rumphia TTT, 248.t 172 f.-2; 172 B. f. 9) Pariseiceanene 
XVI. 2 521. P. embricatus, B1. Enum. Pl. Jay. 89. Pilger le. 56. 
A tall tree about 60 feet high rather straggly in forest, 
forming a compact cone-shaped tree when in the open, much 
branched, Bark smooth on the branches, reddish brown, 
Jour. Straits Branch 
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