. 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. 182 THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS derived from the Greek phyllos, leaf, and klados, branch, in reference to the leaf-like branchlets called phyllodia or cladodia.) Six species, Malaysia to the Philippines and New Zealand. Besides the species described below, the following have been introduced into European gardens: P. alpinus. Hook, f., P. glaucus, Carr., and P. trichomanoidcs, D. Don, from New Zealand, and P. hypophylla. H
. 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. 182 THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS derived from the Greek phyllos, leaf, and klados, branch, in reference to the leaf-like branchlets called phyllodia or cladodia.) Six species, Malaysia to the Philippines and New Zealand. Besides the species described below, the following have been introduced into European gardens: P. alpinus. Hook, f., P. glaucus, Carr., and P. trichomanoidcs, D. Don, from New Zealand, and P. hypophylla. Hook, f., from Borneo. P. rhomboidalis L. C. Rich. {P. asplenifalius. Hook. f.). Tree up to 60 feet, or shrub on mountain tops; persistent branches more or less reticulate, cladodia cuneate or rhomboidal: leaves very small, subulate: male catkins 2 or 3 together; female catkins globular, with 1, 2, or 3 fertile scales sur- mounted by 1 or 2 barren ones. Tasmania.—Introduced to Europe in 1825. A small tree or shrub of peculiar and distinct appearance, occasionally seen in California gardens and in eastern conservatories. 3. CEPHALOTAXUS, Sieb. & Zucc. PLUM-YEW Evergreen trees or shrubs; branchlets opposite, with a resin-canal in the center of the pith: leaves linear, pointed, with a prominent midrib above and with 2 broad glaucous bands beneath, arranged in 2 rows, with a resin-duct in the middle: flowers dioecious, staminate in 1-8-flowered, short-stalked clusters, fertile, consisting of a small cone with several bracts, each bearing 2 naked ovules: seed inclosed in a fleshy envelope, drupe-like, about 1 inch long, reddish- or greenish-brown. (Name derived from Greek kephale, head, and Taxus; a Taxus-like plant with the flowers in heads or clusters.)—Six species in Asia, from the Khasia Mountains to Japan. Besides the two species here described, C. Oliveri, Mast., from China is occasionally cultivated in Europe; it is easily distinguished by its very closely set, rigid a
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