. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada. Evergreens; Conifers. ENUMERATION OF CONIFERS 181 (Prumnopifys elegans, Phil.). A small tree or shrub: leaves crowded, slightly 2-ranked, linear. ;h long, obtusish or mucronate, dark green and with a slightly raised midrib above, with a distinct midrib and 2 stomatiferous glaucous bands beneath: fruit subglobose, usually solitary on a slender drooping stalk, dark bluish-black and about 3^ inch across. Chile.—Intro- duced to Great Britain abo
. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada. Evergreens; Conifers. ENUMERATION OF CONIFERS 181 (Prumnopifys elegans, Phil.). A small tree or shrub: leaves crowded, slightly 2-ranked, linear. ;h long, obtusish or mucronate, dark green and with a slightly raised midrib above, with a distinct midrib and 2 stomatiferous glaucous bands beneath: fruit subglobose, usually solitary on a slender drooping stalk, dark bluish-black and about 3^ inch across. Chile.—Intro- duced to Great Britain about 1860. Hardier than the preceding species. 3. P. Nagi, Makino (P. Nageia, R. Br. Nageia japonica, Gaertn.). Nagi Podocakp, Fig. 24. Tree to C'O feet in its native country, with spreading or ascending-spreading branches; the trunk with smoctl brownish-purple bark peeling off in thin gray flakes; branchlets opposite or sometimes alternate, green: leaves opposite, 2-ranked by a twist of the short petiole, elliptic-lanceolate to lanceolate, sometimes ovate, acute, narrowed at base, 2-3 inches long and about ^ inch broad, many- nerved, bright green and usually lustrous above, slightly paler beneath, sometimes somewhat glaucescent: stammate flowers cylindric, about 1 inch long, in clusters of 3-5; fertile flowers over 3^ inch across, plum-like, dark purple, bloomy, on a but slightly thickened peduncle. Southern Japan.—Introduced to Europe about 1830 by Siebold. Hardy only in southern California and Florida. A beautiful tree with its lustrous foliage and smooth broad 24. Podocarpus Nagi. litary or in pairs: fruit globose, little 2. PHYLLOCLADUS, Rich. Evergreen trees or shrubs; branches often whorled; branchlets flattened and expanded into rigid and coriaceous toothed or lobed leaf-like cladodia: true leaves reduced to linear scales: flowers monoecious or dicecious, the male flowers fascicled at the tips of the branchlets, the fertile flowers sessile on the margins of t
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