90 
T 0 R R E Y A. # 
(Arnott.) 
Natural Order , Taxine^e, (Richard.) Linncean Classifica- 
tion, Dioecia Monadelphia. 
Dioecious. — Male ament subglobose, at length elongated. Scales stami- 
niferous, pedicellate, subpeltate, one-sided, each bearing a 4-celled pen- 
dulous anther. Female ament ovate, 1 -flowered, the base with imbri- 
cated bractes in the same manner as in the male. No fleshy hypogynous 
disc. Ovulum erect. Seed naked, large and ovate, with the bractes at 
its base not becoming enlarged, the shell thick, carnosely coriaceous, 
within fibrous, integument hard and crustaceous. Albumen ruminate. 
Embryo subcylindric and short ; cotyledones connate. 
An evergreen tree resembling the Yew, with spreading distichally forked 
branchlets. Leaves distichal, linear, rigid, bilineate, mucronately pun- 
gent. 
# Named in honour of the well known botanist, Professor Torrey of 
New York. 
