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138 SELECT PLANTS READILY ELIGIBLE
Myrtus Ugni, A. Gray.
The Chilian Guava. _A hardy shrub, freely bearing its small
but pleasantly-aromatic berries.
Nageia (Podocarpus) amara, Blume.
Java, on high volcanic mountains. A large tree, sometimes
2 0 0 feet high.
Nageia (Podo^rpus) andina, Poeppig. {Prumnopitlm
eleganSy Pbilippi.)
The Llenque of Chili. A stately tree with clusters of edible
cherry-like fruits. The wood is yellowish and fine-grained
and is chosen for elegant furniture work.
Nageia (Podocarpus) bracteata, Blume.
Burmah, Borneo, Java, np to 3000 feet. The close-grained
wood IS highly prized. The allied N. neriifolia from tbe
Himalayas has proved hardy here.
Nageia (Podocarpus) Chilina, Eichard.
The Manniu and Lahual of the Chilians. Height to 100
feet, with corresponding thickness of stem. Wood white
of excellent quality, ’
Nageia (Podocarpus) coriacea, Eichard.
West India. This tree attains a height of fifty feet, and
advances to elevations of 8000 feet. Cther species of botli
hemispheres should be tested here.
Nageia (Podocarpus) cupressina, E. Brown.
Java and Phillipine Islands. Height of tree 180 feet- furnishing
a highly valuable timber. ’
Nageia (Podocarpus) dacrydioides, A. Eichard.
In swampy ground of New Zealand; the “Kahikatea” of tbe
Maories, called White Pine by the colonists. Height of tree
150 feet; diameter of stem four feet. Tbe white sweet fruit
m eaten by the natives; tbe wood is pale, close-grained, heavy.
I t will not stand exposure to wet, but is one of the best for
fiooring-boards. The strength is equal to th a t of Eimu, according
to K irk ; but it is more readily attacked by boring insects.
Nageia (Podocarpus) data, E. Brown.
East Australia. A fine timber-tree of great height.
Nageia (Podocarpus) elongata, L’Heritier.
South Africa. With N. Thunbergi and with Erythrina
Cafira and Oreodaphne bullata, this is the tallest tree of
Capeland and Cafiraria, although it does not advance beyond
seventy feet. The yellowish wood is highly valuable, deal-
like, not resinous. The stems can be used for top-masts and
yards of ships.
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Nageia (Podocarpus) ferruginea, Don.
Northern parts of New Zealand. The Black Pine of the
colonists; native name “Miro.” Height of tree 80 feet; it
produces a dark-red resin of a bitter ta ste : tbe wood is of a
reddish colour, very hard; will stand exposure to sea-water.
Fruit, solitary.
Nageia (Podocarpus) Lamberti, Klotzscb.
Brazil, A stately tree, yielding valuable timber.
Nageia (Podocarpus) nubigena, Lindley.
Southern Cbili, generally a companion of N, Chilina, with
which it agrees in its dimensions and the utility of its
timber.
Nageia (Podocarpus) Purdieana, Hooker.
Jamaica, at 2500 to 3500 feet. This quick-growing tree
attains a height of 1 0 0 feet.
Nageia (Podocarpus) spicata. Brown.
Black Pine or Matai of New Zealand. Fruit spicate. Tree
80 feet high; wood pale, soft, close and durable; used advantageously
for piles, machinery, stringers, braces, mill-wrigbt’s
work, house-blocks, railway-sleepers, also weather-boards,
fiooring-boards. (Kirk.)
Nageia (Podocarpus) Thunbergi, Hooker.
South Africa. Superior in tbe quality of its wood to N.
pruinosa, E. Meyer, and even N. elongata; it is bright-
yellow, fine-grained and very handsome when polished
(Dr. Pappe).
Nageia (Podocarpus) Totara, Don.*
New Zealand. A fine tree, 120 feet high, with a stem of
twenty feet in circumference; it is called Mahogany Pine by
the colonists. The reddish close-grained and durable wood
is valuable both for building and for furniture, and is also
extensively used for telegraph-posts; it is considered the
most valuable timber of New Zealand. Used for piles of
bridges, wharves and jetties, and in other naval architecture;
the heart-wood resists for a long time decay, and the
attacks of the Teredo, according to Mr. Thos. Kirk. I t
ranks below Kauri in strength, but equals it in durability.
I t is one of the most lasting woods for railway-sleepers.
When used for piles, the bark should not be removed from
the timber. — Many other tall timber-trees of the genus
Podocarpus or Nageia occur in various parts of Asia, Africa
and America, doubtless all desirable, but the quality of their
timber is not well known, though likely in many cases excellent.
Nageia is by far the oldest published name of the
genus.
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