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CLXV. CONIFERiE. 
1000 to 2000 ft. altitude, Johor, Banang, Batu Pahat (trees gigantic, 
Ridley); Gunong Belumut (Holttum). Malacca, Mount Ophir 
(Maingay, Ridley). Negri Sembilan, Tampin. Selangor, Bukit 
Hitam. Perak, Thaiping Hills by the Waterfall up to looo ft. 
altitude (Wray, Kunstler). Penang Hill and Balik Pulau (Curtis, 
Ridley). Distrib. Indo-Malaya, China. 
The Mount Ophir plant has more coriaceous and narrower leaves than the 
other forms. I have only seen foliage of it. 
Fig. 228.—Podocarpus polystachyus. 
(3) P. polystachyus R. Br. in Mirh. Mem. Mus. xii. 75, and 
in Bennett in Horsf. PI. Jav. rar. 40; Wall. Cat. 6052; Ridl. Jotmi. 
Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 60, p. 58. 
A low dense bushy tree about 30 ft. tall. Leaves crowded, 
lanceolate-linear or elliptic-lanceolate, very shortly narrowed at 
each end, usually blunt at tip, sometimes acute, thickly coriaceous, 
dark green, midrib prominent, 3 in. long, *25 in. wide, subsessile, 
or petiole *1 in. long. Male spikes very numerous, crowded, in 
tufts, yellow, i to 1-5 in. long, -12 in. through. Anther-scale tri¬ 
angular-ovate acute or subacute. Female flowers on different 
trees solitary or several together in the axils, pedicels -i in. long, 
receptacle swollen -25 in. long, cylindric. Seed ellipsoid, *25 in. 
long, red. Hab. Sandy woods behind the mangroves near the sea, 
abundant, Singapore (Wallich); Kranji; Changi; Serangoon, 
Johor near the town. Pahang, Rumpin River; Kwala Pahang 
(Ridley). Distrib. Sumatra, Native names: S’tada; Sintada. 
A curious form occurred at Changi with leaves 6 in. long, -5 in. wide, 
and very slender male spikes i to 2 in. long, the anther-cells remote. 
