CLXV. CONIFEILE. 
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Podocarpus!\ 
ovoid drupaceous, red or purple, or green on the thickened fleshy 
receptacle. Species 40, tropical or sub-temperate regions of both 
hemispheres. 
Leaves all similar. 
Leaves broadly ovate . . . . . (i) P, Blumei 
Leaves linear, spreading: fruit peduncled, rather 
large. 
Male spikes solitary or paired; leaves linear 
lanceolate acute . . . . . (2) P, neriifolius 
Male spikes numerous; leaves elliptic oblong 
blunt . ..{3) P. polystachyus 
Leaves linear very coriaceous, strongly deflexed; 
fruit receptacle sessile . . . . (4) P, deflexus 
Leaves of 2 forms, on branches linear, terete 
appressed; on terminal shoots distichous, 
linear flattened. 
Fruit minute.(5) P. imbricatus 
(1) P. Blumei Endl. Syn. {1847)! Pfianzenreich, Taxacem, 
60; Koorders and Valeton, Baumarlen i. 588. P. agathifolia BL 
Rnmphia, iii. 217, t. 173. P. Wallichianus Ridl. Joitrn. Roy. /Is. 
Sac. S. Br. 60, p. 57 (not of PresL). 
A tree 60 to 70 ft. tall. Leaves in distant pairs, opposite, 
ovate or lanceolate-ovate acuminate subacute, base narrowed, 
coriaceous, 4 to 7 in. long, 175 to 2-5 in. wide; petiole stout, -25 in. 
long. Male flowers in 3 to 5 cylindric spikes, fascicled on a very 
short axillary peduncle. Anther scales ensiform, acute. Female 
flowers solitary on a cylindric receptacle with a few short scale-like 
leaves. Seed oblong globose, green, -5 in. through. Hab. Dense 
lowland forests, sporadic. Singapore, Changi; Kranji. Johor, 
Mount Austin; Bukit Soga. Negri Sembilan, Gunong Angsi, 
Bindings, Gunong Tungul (Ridley). Perak, Kinta (Low). Disirib. 
Java to New Guinea. 
The only specimen I have seen with inflorescence is Low’s fruiting 
specimen. Indeed I have never seen anything but sporadic seedlings about 
4 ft. tall scattered over the southern part of the Peninsula, with no adult 
tree in the vicinity. The species is certainly very closely allied to P. Wal¬ 
lichianus. Presl., of India and Burma, but differs in the stiffer coriaceous, 
more ovate leaves with a shorter point. 
(2) P. neriifolius Don, in Lambert's Pinetum Ed. i. 21; Pilger, 
Pflanzenreich, Taxacece, 80, fig. 15, e-g. ; Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. 
Br. 60, p. 57. P. bracteata Bl. Ennm. PI. Jav. 88; Rmnphia, iii. 214. 
A tree 30 to 100 ft. tall, 8 to 15 in. in diameter. Leaves thinly 
coriaceous, linear-lanceolate, spreading, acuminate acute, narrowed 
to the base, 4 to 4-5 in. long, -5 in. wide, midrib broad elevate on 
both sides; petioles -i to -2 in. long. Male spikes one or two together, 
.5 to 75 in. long, on short peduncles with several short ovate thick 
scales at the base. Female spikes solitary or paired, axillary, 
receptacle -12 to -25 in. long, cylindric, on a slender pedicel as long, 
with a few acute scale-leaves near the tip of the receptacle. Ovule 
ellipsoid or sub-globose. Seed -25 in. long. Hab. Hill forests at 
