Recently Saxton ('30) in a interesting paper outlined the principal features of an investigation into the organisms present in the root nodules of Podocarpus latifolius R. Br. (P. Thunbergii Hook).' It seems that absence of bacteria and the presence of endotrophic fungal hyphae, or mycorhiza, were established from investigation of histological preparations as well as from microbiological cultures. The root material was collected from natural habitats (Table Mountain), whcreifn no legunzinons plants occurred for a considerable distance. I stress this point, as Saxton ('30, 325) has suggested that certainly possibly, and perhaps probably, leguminous root nodule bacteria were absent from the natural habitats of Podocarpus latifolius, and of Plicrosphacra which he also examined. It is scarcely necessary for me to record that E. R. Spratt ('I2),2 in her investigation of the nodules of all but two of the genera of the Podocarpaceae, established by histological and cultural methods the consistent presence of Pseudomonas radicicola (Beijk.) Moore-universally associated with noduiles on the roots of the Leguminosae. Her findings were supported as regards two Australian species of Podocarpus by McLuckie ('23), who also reported presence of mycorhiza in certain nodules. In my monograph (Phillips, '31) on the ecology of the Knysna Forests, South Africa, I very briefly touched upon the fact that in 1922 I established the presence of Pseudonmonas radicicola in the nodules of P. latifolius R. Br., and outlined the results of certain investigations with bacterial and seedling cultures. The results of Spratt, McLuckie, and myself are opposed to the classic findings of Nobbe and Hiltner ('99), who described the presence of endotrophic mycorhiza only, in Podocarpean nodules,3 except that Spratt and myself did find occasional fungal hyphae in the outer, empty cortical cells-