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Arbor magna, pyramidalis, cortice fusco, la?vi, ramis patentibus, gracilibus, laxius- 
culis, fuscis, tuberculatis, subdistiche ramulosis. Folia approximata, patentia, falcata, 
verticalia, bifaria, alterna, linearia, uninervia, cuspidato-acuta, pollicaria, supra 
atroviridia, lucida, subtus glauca. Petioli planiusculi, vix sesquilineani longi, bast 
utrinque lineola per raiiiuni decurrentes. Amenta mascula (fig. 1. 2.) copiosissirna, 
axillaria, solitaria, foliis quadruple breviora, ovata, brevissiine pedicellata, subsecunda, 
faciern raniuli inferiorem spectantia, basi circumdata bracteolis pluribus, imbricantibus, 
valde inaequalibus, obtusissimis, lsevibus, interioribus obovatis, subrotundisque, paten- 
tiusculis, calyculum majusculumformantibus,exterioribus sensim ntinoribus, perpedicel- 
lum brevissimum sparsis. Columna (fig. 8.)// lament or um brevis, teres, flava, carnosa, 
bractearum calyculo vix longior, apice leviter incrassatft divisa in filamentula 
brevissinta, capillacea, distincta. Ant fierce (fig. 4.) pallidissime fiavicantes, peltata?, 
quadri- vel quinquelobse, lobis patentibus, obtusis, subtus dehiscentes, approximate in 
capitulum supra ealyeulum parumper elevatum. Flores fceminei haud visi. Nux 
immatura (fig. 5.) in distincta arbore, axillaris, solitaria, subrotunda, apiculata, Icevis, 
nitida, magnitudine seminis coriandri, fere occulta calyculo , (fig. 6.) multibracteato, 
pedicellato. 
Observation. 
This tree seems to be much like Kaempfer's figure and description, quoted above ; 
yet I aim not certain that they belong to one and the same species. The leaves are 
represented as being more distant, and somewhat broader than those of our tree; 
but this may be an accidental circumstance. I have not seen the ripe fruit; but its 
unripe state clearly points at a nut, supported by a subtruncate calycle of numerous 
bractes. The wood is light, compact, of a brow nish color. 
Both Capt. W. S. Webb and Dr. Govan, have kindly supplied me with 
specimens, which are undoubtedly Taxus baccata , without fructification, which had 
been gathered on the Himaleya. I possess, besides the above, other specimens, pre¬ 
sented to me by those gentlemen, as species of Yew; but not having seen their 
inflorescence, I am unable to afford any useful information respecting them. My 
first mentioned friend sent me branches of a Yew, which he gathered on the confines 
of Tartary : he observes, that it is berry-bearing, and that the. natives call it Tooner. 
It is certainly a new species. 
Carpology of TJiunberg'ia coccinea , (continued from p. 49.) 
Having succeeded in causing several seeds to germinate, which ripened this season, 
for the first time, in the garden, I am able to add some account of their internal struc¬ 
ture. 1 must, however, candidly confess, that I have not quite overcome the difficulty of 
determining the precise nature of the radicula, and the figure and relative position of 
the cotyledons. The latter appear to me to vary considerably in those respects, as 
well as in their size ; the ventral one is, however, always the largest. Before germina¬ 
tion, they are scarcely to be distinguished from each other by a faint and interrupted 
line, observable in a section of the seed ; and it is only during its progress, that their 
margins become somewhat separable by the aid of a knife, especially towards their 
base, where they send oirthc small, flattened, longish petiols, by w hich they are attach¬ 
ed to the infant plant. In every other respect, they continue firmly attached to each 
other, forming a seemingly uniform substance, which never rises above the ground. 
The seeds of Thunb. grandiflora , Roxb. appear to have precisely the same structure. 
Those of Thunb. Hawtayneana , Wall, have the back of the ventral, at least four times 
larger, cotyledon marked by a flat, obicular cavity, in w hich the dorsal cotyledon is 
placed. This latter is almost circular, very slightly convex on the outside ; its margins 
truncate, and concealed within those of the cavity, in which it is received. 
Th coccinea: Cotyledones duse, carnosa?, albie, dispares, piano-convexae, incum- 
bentes, paginis internis arete conferruminat®, ita ut limites, nisi inceptA germinatione, 
