PHILIPPINE GYMNOSPERMS. 
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of branchlets ; ovule inverted. Seed finally erect, terminal or a little in- 
fraterminal, ovoid, obtuse, subtrigonous, micropyle apiculate. 
Mindoro, Mount Halcon, For. Bur. 4419 Merritt, Merrill 5189 ; Mount Palong, 
For. Bur. 8521 Merritt. Pan ay, Province of Antique, Mount Midiaas, Yoder s. n. 
Negros, Mount Silay, For. Bur. 4221 Everett, For. Bur. 4543 P. del Villar, For. 
Bur. 13612, 13621 Curran & Foxworthy. Mindanao, Province of Misamis, Mount 
Malindang, For. Bur. 4541, 4548, 4131 Means' & Hutchinson: District of Zam- 
boanga, Copeland s. n., probably this species although not a typical form. 
This is distinctly a plant of high elevations. All the above were found at 
1,000 or more meters elevation. Where the tree occurs, it is abundant, forming 
a large part of the stand. Distribution: Monsoon region; Burma; Siam and 
Cochin China ; Tonkin, Than-Moi ; Malacca, Singapore ; Penang ; Sumatra ; Borneo ; 
Fiji Islands; and the Philippines. 
3. Dacrydium sp. aff. D: heccarii Pari. Foxworthy in Philip. Journ. Sci. 2 
(1907) 258. 
This form, with long, very slender, aciculate, 4-angled leaves is possibly a 
young form of D. elatum, although the very slender long leaves do not look like 
that species. 
Mindoro, Mount Halcon, at 2,400 m, Merrill 5114, Nov. 1906, a single sterile 
specimen from a young tree in a thicket on a ridge. 
2. PODOCARPUS L’Herit. 2 
Dioecious or very rarely monoecious. Male flowers rarely terminal 
like those of Dacrydium and single or several together sessile or pedun- 
culate in the axils of leaves, surrounded by the squamate sterile bases, 
sometimes aggregated or in an inflorescence at the apex of a shortened 
branch, rarely spicate (Stachy carpus) ; anthers often imbricate, always 
composed of 2 cells, apiculus usually small. Female flowers rarely spic- 
ate, ovules remote {Stachy carpus) , or rarely ovules 1 or 2 at the apex of a 
short, scarcely thickened branch ; flowers often single, pedunculate in the 
axils of leaves, receptacle fleshy and base squamate, in the fertile part com- 
posed of 1 or 2 carpidia ; carpidia always uni ovulate ; ovules and covering 
much exceeding the carpidia, rarely grown together with the carpidia at 
the apex ( Dacrycarpus ) ; epimatium smooth curved, with integument of 
the ovule inverted, the micropyle always facing the base of the connate 
carpidia. Seeds often large; often ± apiculate, testa double, involute, 
exteriorly fleshy or fleshy-coriaceous, inner layer thickly ligneous or 
scarcely different from the outer. Spreading shrubs or trees. ' Leaves 
rarely squamiform {Dacrycarpus) , often linear or elongate, lanceolate or 
ovate, often acute or mucronate and usually spirally inserted, spreading, 
distichous, rarely opposite or subopposite {Nageia). 
Of the five sections of the genus as recognized' by Pilger, four are 
represented in the Philippines. 
The genus contains about 60 species and is found in eastern Asia and Malaya 
and the temperate regions of the southern hemisphere. It seems to reach its 
2 One of the nomina conservanda of the Vienna Congress. 
