PHILIPPINE GYMNOSPERMS. 
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known. Fruit ovoid, 8—10 mm long, on a fleshy receptacle which lias 
two minute • subulate bracts at the base. 
Mindoro,- Mount Halcon, at 2,150 m alt., Merrill 5754, Nov. 1906: Negros, 
Mount Canlaon, at 1,450 m alt., Phil. PI. 241 Merrill, Apr. 1910. Mindanao, 
Mount Malindang, at 2,790 m alt.. For. Bur. 4673 Mearns £ Hutchinson, May- 
1996. 
First collected by Warburg in the mountain forest on Wawo-Kraeng in Celebes. 
7. Podocarpus costalis C. Presl Epimel. Rot. (1851) 236 pro parte (Spec. 
Haenke) excl. syn. Brown et Blume et Cuming 803; F.-Vill. Noviss. App. (1880) 
211; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. 2 (1859) 1074; Ceron Cat. PI. Herb. (1892) 187; 
Warburg, Monsunia 1 (1900) 193; Pilger in Engler ' Das Pflanzenreich 4 3 
(1903) 78. 
P. sp. aff. costalis Presl; Yidal Sinopsis Atlas (1883) xliii, t. 97, f. D. 
Tree, 5-15 m tall. Branches few, short, spreading, densely leafy 
above. Leaves turned in all directions, spreading or erect-spreading, 
coriaceous, narrow or broadly linear-lanceolate, of uniform width 
almost to the apex, which is abruptly rounded, obtuse, gradually 
changing at the base into the short rather broad petiole, shining above, 
on drying ± fuscous .above and below, 5-7 cm long, 10-12 mm broad 
or 3-4.5 cm long and about 6 mm broad or much larger in leaves from 
robust seedling plants, midrib scarcely conspicuous above or in a broadish, 
irregular obtuse ± prominent furrow, beneath broadly marked, but 
scarcely or but little prominent, irregularly slightly impressed in drying. 
Male inflorescence single, sessile, thick, 'cylindraceous, base surrounded by 
a rigid, short, obtusely-rounded bract, 3 cm long. Female inflorescence 
single, axillary; peduncles about 2 mm long; receptacle fleshy, scales 2, 
subequal, connate at apex, forming a fleshy rounded apex, about 7 mm 
long, with 2 very small bracts at the base. Seed elliptical, apex slightly 
obtusely produced, in drying fuseo-nigrescent, 9-10 mm long. 
Known only from the Philippines. First collected by Haenke, probably on 
Mt. Banajao, in the island of Luzon, from which come all the other collections 
of this species, Loher 2140, 7128, 1906; Bur. Sci. 2393, 2423 Foxworthy , Mar. 
1907, For. Bur. 7913 Curran & Merritt, Nov. 1907. 
8. Podocarpus polystachyus R. Br. ex Mirb. in Mdrn. Mus. 3 (1825)- 75 
(nomen) et ex Bennett in Horsf. PI. Jav. Rar. (1838) 40 (nomen !); Endl. 
Syn. (1847) 215; Carr. Conif. (1867) 662 (?); Pari, in DC. Prodr. 16 2 (1868) 
515; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 3 (1908) Bot. 394; Pilger in Engler Das 
Pflanzenreich 4 3 (1903) 79. 
P. neriifolia Don p. parte in Lamb. Pin. ed. 2, 2 (1828) 122. 
I can not be sure that this species is distinct from P. elatus R. Br. 
The following description is taken from Pilger, with the exception 
of what is said concerning the seed, which is taken from our Palawan 
material. 
