Podocarpus^ CLXV. conifers. 
283 
(4) P. deflexus Ridl. , . xi. 
Tree 15 to 25 ft. tall, branches spreading at right angles to the 
stem, branchlets stout, marked with close leaf scars. Leaves 
crowded at the end of the branches, very coriaceous and strongly 
deflexed linear or lanceolate-linear, shortly blunt acuminate, 
narrowed to the base, no distinct petiole, midrib thick, elevate 
above, channelled beneath. Male flowers unknown. Female 
flowers solitary in the upper axils, receptacle sessile, very thick, 
obconic, *25 in. long. Seed obovoid, base narrowed, -4 in. long, 
pruinose. Hab. On open rock slopes at 5000 to 7000 ft. altitude, 
Pahang, Gunong Tahan (Robinson, Ridley). 
This striking species is conspicuous from its strongly deflexed leaves 
crowded at the top of the branchlets, the lower ones having fallen off. It 
differs too from P fieriifolius, to which I at first referred it, m its sessile 
receptacle and larger glaucescent fruit. 
(K) P. imbricatus B/. Emm. PI. Jav. 89; Pilger, Pflanzenreich. 
Taxacea, 56, fig. 7 B. P- cupressinus R. Br. in Bennett Horsf. PI. 
Jav. Rar. 35, i. 10 ; Bl. Rtmphia 111. 218, t. 172; Ridl. Journ. Roy. 
As. Soc. S. Br. 6o, p. 58. r n x 
A straggling erect tree about 60 to 100 ft. tall, 4 to 5 ft. in dia¬ 
meter; branchlets slender. Leaves of 2 forms: (i) on branches, 
linear terete decurrent mucronate, *12 in. long, dark green; (2) on 
terminal shoots, distichous, flattened linear mucronate, glaucous, 
green *25 in. long. Leaves of seedlings often *5 m. long. Male 
cones’cylindric blunt, -36 in. long, on branchlets below the distichous 
leaves; peduncles -i in. long. Anther-scales 40, lanceolate. 
Female flowers on different trees. Ovules very small solitary on 
the ends of short branches, receptacle yellow papillose. Seed 
very small red. Hab. Hill forests at from 1000 ft. altitude upwards. 
Not rare.' Johor, Gunong Pulai. Pahang, K’luang Ter^ng 
(Barnes). Selangor, Bukit Hitam (Kelsall); Semangkok Pass 
Ridley). Perak, Gunong Batu Putih (Wray). Kedah Peak (Low). 
Distrib. Tenasserim, Hainan, Malay islands. 
The tree in the forest is usually weak and straggling, though Wray gives 
it as 100 ft. tall and 4 to 5 ft- through. Trees in the Botanic Gardens m 
open ground were about 40 ft. tall and densely branched to near the ground. 
Order CLXVI. CYCADEiE 
Palm-like trees or shrubs. Stem thick, simple or forked and 
covered with old leaf bases. Leaves in a terminal crown rigidly cori¬ 
aceous pinnate with narrow linear acute or lobed leaflets with 
circinate vernation as in ferns. Male flowers in a terminal cone of 
numerous scales bearing beneath numerous crowded i-celled anthers 
Female flowers on a different plant consisting of a terminal whorl 
of flat carpellary leaves usually pectinate lanceolate or flabellate 
fcarpophylls). Ovules large, sessile, in notches of the carpellary 
