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Stiles. — The Podocarpeae. 
of Podocarpus , and similarly the name Podocarpus as it was first used in 
1806 is replaced by the later name Phyllocladus. 
The chief character distinguishing Podocarpus from other genera is to 
be found in the greater extent to which fusion of parts has taken place in 
the female reproductive structures. Whereas in the genera already noticed 
the outer integument is to a great extent separate from the inner, which is 
itself separate from the nucellus, in P odocarpus the fusion of these parts is 
always more or less complete. In all the species of this genus also the 
ovule is not sessile on the megasporophyll, but is borne in an inverted 
position at the end of a short stalk, so that the micropyle faces towards the 
base of the stalk. For the upper part of its length the stalk is fused with 
the integuments, so that it is impossible to define the limits of the stalk and 
of the outer integument. 
Pilger 1 divides the genus into five sections : 
1. Dacrycarpus, in which the fusion of parts has included the mega- 
sporophyll, which is connate with the ovulate structure. This has taken 
place in none of the following sections. 
2. Microcarpus, in which the leaves are squamiform. 
3. Nageia, where the leaves are plurinerved. 
4. Stachycarpus, with linear or lanceolate leaves, but when in fruit 
without a fleshy receptacle formed by the fusion and swelling up of the 
sporophylls. In two species, P. andinus and P. spicatus , the megaspo- 
rangiate strobilus consists of a branch bearing about eight megasporophylls 
separated by appreciable internodes. The other species of the section, 
however, are reduced in this respect like the species of other sections. 
5. Eupodocarpus, with linear or lanceolate leaves and with a receptacle. 
Species have been examined representative of the last three sections 
mentioned above ; it was not found possible to obtain for examination any 
but herbarium material of the three species of Dacrycarpus , or of the single 
species of Microcarpus . One species, P. nagi , (Thunb.) Pilger, was examined 
of the section Nageia ; two species, P. andinus , Poeppig, and P. amarus , 
Blume, of the section Stachycarpus ; and eleven species of the section 
Eupodocarpus : P. elatus , R. Br., P. spinulosus , (Smith) R. Br., P .poly st achy us, 
R. Br., P. macrophyllus , (Thunb.) Don, P. neriifolius , Don, P. salignus , D. 
Don, P. Totara , A. Cunn, P. alpinus , R. Br., P. elongatus , (Ait) L’Her., 
P . latifolius , (Thunb.) R. Br., and an unknown species. It is unnecessary 
to indicate the external features of each of these species, which are treated 
of at length by Pilger. 
There is a wide range of habitat from tall trees like P. elatus reaching 
a height of 100 feet, through smaller trees such as P. andinus , about 20 
feet high, to low shrubs like P. alpinus and P. nivalis , found on the 
mountains of Tasmania and New Zealand respectively. 
1 Pilger (’ 03 ), p. 55 - 
