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Cycadaceae, Taxaceae, Gnetaceae, 

 Pandanaceae , Smilaceae , Commelinaceae, 

 Amaryllidaceae, Taccaceae, Dioscoreaceae 



by C. H. Ostenfeld — Copenhagen. 



Cycadaceae. 



Cycas L. 



1. €. drcinalis L., Sp. pl. J 658; Hook, f., Fl. Brit. India, V, p. 656; 

 C. sphaerica Roxb., Fl. India, III, p. 747. 



Male cone, female carpophylls with ripe seeds and a young plant 

 were brought home, preserved in alcohol. 



Koh Kahdat, sandy seashore, plentiful (No. 548). 



Area (after Warburg, Monsunia I): India, Ceylon, Nicobar Islands, Burma, 

 Sumatra, Java, South China. 



Taxaceae. 



Podocarpus L'Hérit. 



1. P. Wallichianus G. Presl, Botan. Bemerk., p. 1 10, 1844 ; R. Pilger, 

 Taxaceae in Engler: Das Pflanzenreich, Heft 18, 1903, p. 59 ; P. latifolia 

 Wallich, Plantae As. rarior., 1830, p. 26, tab. 30 (non P. latifolia (Thunb.) 

 R. Br.); Hook, f., Fl. Brit. India, V, p. 649. 



A young plant about 50 cm. high has been collected. The leaves 

 are 10 — 11 cm. long and 2—2,5 cm. broad; R. Pilger 1. c. quotes 3 — 4 cm. 

 broad, but perhaps the leaves are broader in the grown-up plants. 



There have also been collected sterile branches of a plant which I 

 consider as a unusually broad- leaved P. Wallichianus. The leaves are 

 broadly ovate, 11—13 cm. long and 5 — 6 cm. broad, long acuminate. 

 The branches resemble closely branches of Agathis, but the buds and 

 their scales are acute as in Podocarpus, sect. Nageia, while Agathis has 

 obtuse bud-scales and rounded buds. 



Very common in the jungle near Lem Dan and Klong Munsé (No. 399). 

 Area: East India, Burma. 



