GneUm.] CLXiv. gnetace^. 277 
(Cantley). Selangor, Ulu Gombak (Burn-Murdoch). Perak, Water¬ 
fall, Thaiping Hills (Wray, Kunstler). Penang, Hill (Curtis). Native 
names: Akar Tutubo; Akar Suburus. 
This plant is very near Blume’s G. funiculare if it is distinct from that 
species, as Gamble thinks it is. 
(ii) G. tenuifolium Ridl. Joiirn, Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 60, p. 66. 
Slender twiner. Leaves herbaceous oblong-lanceolate acumin¬ 
ate, base shortly narrowed, 4 to 7 in. long, i to 2*25 in. wide; nerves 
raised, 6 to 8 pairs; petioles *25 in. long. Male spikes one or two 
together, unbranched; peduncle i in, long; spike as long. Female 
spike solitary, 2 to 3 in. long; ovule-whorls *12 in. apart. Seed 
spikes 4 in. long. Seed ellipsoid acute, *5 in. long, on a pedicel 
•5 in. long. Hab. Forests, Malacca, Bukit Sadanen; Chabau; 
Selandor (Cantley). Negri Sembilan, Tampin Hill; Gunong 
Angsi. Selangor, Kwala Lumpur. Pahang, River bank (Ridley). 
Perak, Thaiping Hills. Bindings, Gunong Tungul. Penang Hill 
(Curtis); Balik Piilau. Kedah, Yan. Lankawi. Distrih. S. Siam 
(Kasum). Native names: Akar Putat; Akar Dagun; Akar 
Mantadu. Use: Fruit eaten by Sakai. 
Order CLXV. CONIFEIGE 
Trees (or shrubs). Leaves coriaceous, rigid, usually alternate, 
ovate, linear, acicular or scale-like, usually sessile. Flowers uni¬ 
sexual, usually on different trees. Males in catkins of small scales 
bearing 2 or more anther-cells. Females of i or more sessile ovules, 
on a scale or on a fleshy peduncle (receptacle). Ovules naked. 
Seeds in cones {Araucarice, Ahielinem) winged, attached at first to 
the scales, or {Taxace^) drupaceous on a fleshy receptacle. 
Genera 33, species about 300, whole world, but chiefly in temperate 
regions, very rare in the tropics and absent from Peninsular 
India and Ceylon. 
I. Ar.\ucari^. 
Female flowers in a cone of numerous scales. 
Anther cells 5 or more; seed winged . . .1. Agathis 
II. Taxace.e. 
Female spike of i to 6 minute scales; seed drupaceous 
on a receptacle. 
Ovule erect ........ 2. Dacrydium 
Ovule reversed . . . . . . • 3- Podocarpus 
1 . AGATHIS, Salisb. 
Lofty trees with whorled branches. Leaves coriaceous, ovate, 
finely nerved; no midrib. Male cones cylindric, solitary peduncled, 
scales numerous, with 10 or 12 anther-cells. Female cone ovoid 
or more or less globose, of large scales spirally imbricate, broad- 
tipped. Ovuliferous-scale thin confluent with the scale. Ovule i, 
