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Po clo carp us elata, R.Br. 
The Brown or She Pine.* 
(Natural Order CONIFERS.) 
Botanical description. —Genus, Podocarpus, L’ Her. 
Floivers .—Dioecious or rarely monoecious. 
.Vale amenta. —Cylindrical. 
Stamens. —Numerous, slightly contracted at the base, the scale-like apices closely imbricate ; 
anther cells two. 
Female amenta. —Of two to four bracts or scales, more or less succulent, and united with the 
rhacliis in an oblong receptacle, unequally two or four toothed at the apex. 
Ovules. —One or two, exserted, reversed, and adnate to an erect stipe from within the larger teeth 
or bracts of the receptacle. 
Seeds. —Drupaceous, the nucleus enclosed in a double integument, the outer one succulent, the 
inner one long. 
Embryo. —With two short cotyledons and an inferior radicle. 
Trees or shrubs. 
Leaves. —Alternate or rarely opposite, usually distichous and flat, with a prominent midrib. 
Buds. —Scaly. 
Amenta. —Axillary or terminal, solitary or several together, sessile or shortly racemose. 
Botanical description. —Species, P. elata, R.Br.; Mirb. in Mem. Mus. Par. 
XIII, 75. 
A tree of 50 to 100 feet. 
Leaves. —Oblong linear or broadly linear-lanceolate, very variable in size, on some specimens with 
young flowers to 2 inches long and f inch wide and quite straight; in the ordinary form 
3 to 6 inches long and 4 to 6 lines broad, straight or slightly falcate, acute or rather obtuse, 
the midrib prominent, the petiole very shoit. 
Male amenta. —Clustered two or three together, sessile, 1 to 1A inches long, surrounded by several 
short scales or bracts. 
Female peduncles. —Two to 3 lines long, solitary in the axils of the lower leaves or more 
frequently of small bracts at the base of the year’s branches. 
Fruiting receptacle. —Oblong, 4 to 6 lines long, with usually only one seed, ovoid or globular, 
4 to 6 lines diameter. (B. FI. vi, 247.) 
Botanical Name. — Podocarpus, from two Greek words— pous, podos, a 
foot, and karpos, a fruit, referring to the thick, fleshy fruit-stalk of these plants ; 
elata, Latin, lofty, referring to the tallness of the tree. 
White or She Pine on Plate. 
