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tivation under glass in that establishment. P. bracteata, Blume, 

 Java ; P. dacrydioides, A. Rich. New Zealand ; P. elongata, 

 L'Heritier, South Africa ; P. elata, R. Br. Australia ; P. japoniea 

 and var. variegata, Siebold, Japan ; P. neriifolia, Don, Nepal ; 

 P. spioata, R. Br. New Zealand ; P. tasifolia, Kunth in Hunib. 

 etBonpl. Nov. Gen.., New Granada ; P. eoriacea, Richard, Jamaica ; 

 P. pectinata, Pancher MSS., New Caledonia ; P. Purdieana, 

 Hook., West Indies ; P. salicifolia, Klotzsch, West Indies. Descrip- 

 tions of most of these will be found in Parlatore, 1. c. 507, et seq. 

 Figures of the New Zealand species will be found in Kirk's Forest Flora 

 of New Zealand. 



PRUMNOPITYS (= Podocarpus, § Stachycarpus, Endlicher ; 

 Benth. et Hook. iii. 435.) Stachycarpus (gen.), VanTieghem, Bull. 

 Soc. Bot. France, 1891. (Taxace^, Tribe Podocarpe^.) 



Evergreen tree or shrub, like Podocarpus, but with the fruits on a 

 loose spike instead of solitary on a fleshy stalk. According to Yan 

 Tieghem, the root structure is also peculiar in having resin canals 

 within the pericycle, such as exist in the root of Araucaria and Dam- 

 mara, but not in the Cupressinese nor in the Taxaceae. 



1. P. elegans, Philippi ; Lindley in Gard. Chron. Jan. 3, 1863, p. 6 ; 

 Carriere, ed. 2, p. 682 ; Veitch, 316. 



SyjVOJVFMS: — Podocarpus andina, Poeppig ; Parlatore, 520 ; Beissner. 

 Stacliycarjms andina, Yan Tieghem, 1. c. 



Introduced from Chile by Pearce in 1860. 



PSEUDOLARIX, Gordon, Pinetum, 292 (1858) ; Eichler, Pflanzen- 

 famil. ii. 69, fig. (Tribe Abietine.e.) 



This genus, established by Gordon, was not taken up by Bentham 

 and Hooker, who considered it allied to Cedrns, or as likely to form 

 a new genus when further information came to hand. This is now 

 forthcoming, and Gordon's genus may be considered as confirmed. It 

 is like the Larch in habit, but the spike-like male fliowers are in 

 umbellate tufts as in Ginkgo. 



1. P. Ksempferi, Gordon, Pinetum ; Beissner, 310, fig, from Gard. 

 Chron. ; Masters, Gard. Chron. May 3, 1884, p. 584, fig. 112, male 

 flowers ; August 23, 1884, p. 241, fig. 48, cones; Joiirn. Linn. Soc. 

 xxii. 209. The Golden Larch. 



Smom^MS : — Larix Keempferi, Carriere ; Yeitch, 129 ; Garden, Oct. 

 1875, fig. Pmits Xcemp/em, Lambert ; Parlatore, 413. AhiesKsemp- 

 ferii, Lindley in Gard. Chron. July 15, 1854, p. 455, and 1855, p. 644, 

 cut. P. Fortunei, Mayr, Mon. Ahiet. Japan. 99 (1890). 



Northern China. 



Fruited at Lucombe & Pince's Nursery, Exeter, in 1887. For cones 

 and male flowers, I am indebted to Messrs. Rovelli of Pallanza. ]\Iayr 

 says that the true Krempfer's Larch is the species known as Larix 

 leptolepis, and proposes to shift the name accordingly. 



