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axils of scales at the base of undeveloped branches, back of excrescences, 
pedicellate, or sessile on phylloclades or occupying cavities in phyllo- 
clades; carpidia uniovulate decussate or spirally arranged, thick, apex 
truncate, forming with the fleshy axis hollows of the shape of the ovules ; 
ovules erect, the base at last surrounded by a lobulate, white cupule 
equaling the seed or surpassing the smaller seeds. Leaves very short 
squamiform, spirally arranged on the branches, in the axils of terminal 
branchlets resembling leaves, i. e. phyllocladia, rudimentary leaves ar- 
ranged on the margins, the upper part variously lobed, pitted. 
There are 5 or 6 species in the genus and one of these is found in 
the high mountains of the Philippines. 
Phyllocladus protractus (Warb. ) Pilger in Engler Das Pflanzenreich 4 5 
(1903) 99; Perk. Frag. FI. Philip. (1904) 44; Foxworthy ex Merr. in Philip. 
Journ. Sci. 2 ( 1907 ) Bot. 259. Plate XXXI. 
P. hypophyllus Rendle in Journ. Bot. 34 (1896) 355 non Hook. f. in Hook. 
Icon. PI. (1852) t. 889. 
P. hypophyllus var. protracta Warb. Monsunia 1 (1900) 194. 
Buds of branches globose, inner scales imbricate, shortly acute, outer 
scales long, subulate-acuminate, divaricate, rarely all shortly acute. 
Leaves on the branches at the base of the phylloclades, squamiform, 
deciduous, linear, very small. Phylloclades rather distant, large, nar- 
rowly elliptic or ovate, apex long attenuate, shining above, below slightly 
fuscescent, cuneate narrowed from about one- third the length to the 
base, or base almost ovate-rounded, the upper part with dentate lobes, 
the apex itself obtuse deeply incised, terminal lobe narrow, elongate, 
obtuse, or deeply sinuate, rarely irregularly grossly crenate ; lobes of 
phylloclades slightly crenulate, bearing setaceous- dentiform, acute, rudi- 
mentary leaves; phylloclades 4-6 to 10.5 cm long, up to 4 cm broad; 
midrib prominent above, the place of lateral nerves taken by narrow 
furrows. Male catkins 5-7 mm long and 2 mm in diameter on pedicels 
of about the same length or shorter. Female flowers in sinuses at the 
apex of the phylloclades or at the sides or even taking the place of the 
phylloclades at the end of a branch; flowers subglobose, carpidia few. 
Seed smooth, compressed, with acute margins, apex rounded, obtuse; 
cupule short, white, shorter than the seed, scarcely projecting beyond the 
carpel. 
Luzon, Province of Isabela, For. Bur. 18567 Alvarez: Subprovince of Lepanto, 
For. Bur. 10957 Curran, Jan. 1909, with flowers: Province of Abra, For. Bur. 
11/587 Darling: Subprovince of Benguet, Loher 5203, Merrill 1/753, For. Bur. 
18361/ Alvarez, Jan. 1909, in fruit. Mindoro, Merrill 5788. Mindanao, Province 
of Misamis, For. Bur. 1/679 Means & Hutchinson. 
Found in all the above cases at elevations greater than 1,000 m. 
This species is said to differ from P. hypophyllus by its more incised phyllo- 
clades and by the fact that it is never glaucous on the under side of the 
phylloclades. 
Distribution: Monsoon region : Philippines; Moluccas; British New Guinea. 
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