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4. TAXUS L. 
Flowers dioecious; male axillary, squamate at the base; anthers 6-14. 
peltate, 6-8 cells together with connate filaments. Female flowers axil- 
lary on squamate branchlets ; flower located in the axil of the uppermost 
scale, involucre of three equal decussate scales; buds containing 1-3 
rudimentary leaves, rarely in flowering projecting from the next to the 
last scale of the twig; single ovule in terminal flower erect; seed ellip- 
soid, testa woody, cupule campanulate, closed, red, thickly fleshy ; embryo 
placed in the upper part of the albumen, cotyledons 2, thick, pressed 
together. Trees or very much branched shrubs; leaves linear, spirally 
inserted, biseriate-spreading. 
Pilger recognizes only a single species; but it seems to me that his 
subspecies are really good species and I am so treating them. 
Taxus wallichiana Zucc. in Abh. Bayr. Akad. Wiss. 3 (1843) 803, t. 5; Endl. 
Syn. (1847) 244; Carr. Conif. (1867) 740. 
T. baccata subsp. wallichiana ( Zucc. ) Pilger in Engler Das Pflanzenreich 4 5 
(1903) 112; Perk. Frag. FI. Philip. (1904) 44; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 
5 (1910) Bot. 324. 
T. virgata Wall, ex Hook. f. FI. Brit. Indj 5 (1888) 648. 
T. contortus (?) Griff. Not. (1848) 351; Icon. PI. As. t. 376. 
T. baccata Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 1. c. 
Cephalotaxus sumatrana Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. 2 (1859) 1076. 
Cephalotaxus celebica Warb. Monsunia 1 (1900) 194. 
Branches laxly leafy; scales of buds at the base of persistent branch- 
lets larger, more rigid and more acute than in T. baccata. Leaves 
more or less falcate, narrowly linear, and base usually strongly curved, 
apex twisted, gradually long-acuminate, acute, 2.5-3 cm or more long, 
rarely in flowering specimens less than 2 cm. 
Luzon, Subproyince of Lepanto, Merrill 4595, Micholitz s. n., For. Bur. 10958 
Curran : Subprovince of Benguet, Loher 4850, Elmer 6244 > Williams 1002, Merrill 
4814, For. Bur. 5015, 10824, 10830 Curran, Mearns s. n , Bur. Sci. 4406 Mearns, 
For. Bur. 14186, 14191 Merritt, For. Bur. 18106 Curran, Merritt, c£- Zschohke, 
For. Bur. 18366, 18369 Alvarez, Bur. Sci. 8390 McGregor : Provinces of La Laguna 
and Tayabas, Mount Banajao, Vidal 3907 Loher 7129, 7 139, Bur. Sci. 2431 
Foxworthy ,. For. Bur. 7914 Curran & Merritt, Bur. Sci. 6059, 9823 Robinson, 
Calvin 315. 
Rendle 4 credited a sterile specimen collected by Whitehead in the highlands 
of Lepanto to Cephalotaxus mannii Hook, f., but later it was referred to this 
species. 
All of our material has been collected at elevations in excess of 1,500 m. 
Where this species occurs, it makes up a very considerable part of the stand. 
Distribution: Sikkim; Darjeeling; Manipur; Khasia; Burma; Sumatra; South 
Celebes; Philippines. 
4 Journ. Bot. 34 (1896) 355. 
