Female Strobilus in Podocarpus. 
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Description of Species. 
§ Dacrycarpus. 
Flores terminei terminates : receptacidum parvulum , verrucidosum, 
carpidium fertde unicnm , cum ovulo tota longitudine connatum , ovulum 
breviter apice obtuso superans . 
In § Dacrycarpus we get a very reduced strobilus, but the most 
highly organized in Podocarpus itself. The cone consists of a peduncle or 
‘ fertile branch clothed with scale leaves, terminated by the strobilus of 
two to four bracts, of which one to three of the apical ones may be fertile. 
The lamina of the fertile bract or ‘ carpel * is fused with that of the 
ovuliferous scale or ‘ epimatium ’, and bears a solitary ovule, medianly placed, 
on its ventral surface near the apex. 
In the sterile bracts the lamineae are long in comparison with those in 
the other sections, terete, and through not showing secondary development, 
remain distinct and green. 
The bract bases, on the other hand, though unmodified in the early 
stages, subsequently swell up, fuse, and change colour, the entire surface 
showing verruculose swellings. Subsequent growth in the ovuliferous scale 
carries it well above the bract bases, and it forms with the lamina of the 
fertile bract the whole protective covering of the ovule, which it surrounds 
and enfolds completely. 
P. imbricata. 
Morphology. This species was first described by Blume ( 5 , p. 89) in 
1827. It is figured by Bennett and Brown (2, p. 35, t. 10) and by Blume 
( 5 , 218, 1. 172, f. 2 et 172 B. f. 2). These plates give a very good idea of the 
foliage of the tree and its dimorphic habit, and both show the same con- 
dition as material collected at Buitenzorg in December (PI. XLIX, Fig. 1), 
viz. last year’s strobilus with this year’s above it. 
P. imbricata is a graceful forest tree, about 70 ft. high, with straight 
trunk and compact crown, occurring plentifully in the mixed montane 
forests of Fiji, and recorded for New Caledonia, New Hebrides, the Malay 
Archipelago, and N. Burma. Seen in the virgin forest of Java and on the 
sheltered slopes of Kinabalu in N. Borneo, the tree assumes a larger size and 
a more branching and spreading habit, with the crown not so markedly 
compact as observed in Fiji. It is a true mesophyllous mixed forest type, 
and occurs always singly. As it runs up the exposed slopes of Kinabalu, 
however, it is finally, in the sclerophyllous dwarf forest subsummit zone 
(11,500 ft.), reduced to a compact shrub 5-6 ft. high, where, associated with 
Phyllocladus hy pop hy llus , Hook., Dacrydium Gibbseae , Stapf., and Podocarpus 
