The Morphology of the ‘Flowers * of 
Cephalotaxus K 
BY 
W. C. WORSDELL, F.L.S. 
With Plate XXXV. 
I HAVE lately, through the kindness of Miss M. Benson, 
Lecturer in Botany at the Royal Holloway College, 
Egham, had placed at my disposal for investigation some 
abnormal female flowers of Cephalotaxus Fortunei , to the 
study of which a large part of the present memoir will be 
devoted. 
I desire, however, to take the present favourable opportunity 
to enter into a general consideration of the morphology of the 
‘ flowers ’ of both sexes in this important genus, for it appears 
to me that some uncertainty prevails with regard to the real 
morphological nature and relationships of the flowers. This 
is due in part to the fact that Cephalotaxus is much less frequent 
in gardens and parks than its ally Taxus , and in part to the 
minuteness and obscure position of the flowers. 
The Structure of the Male Flower. 
In the axils' of the foliage-leaves of the previous year are 
borne small stalked, somewhat globose cones or capitula, the 
bracts of which are arranged spirally (PI. XXXV, Fig. i) 2 . In 
the axil of each bract of the cone is placed a short axis bearing 
1 From the Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 
2 This figure is taken from a photograph, for which I am indebted to Mr. L. A. 
Boodle, F.L.S. 
[Annals of Botany, Vol. XV. No, LX, December, 1901,] 
