AND ON PODOCARPUS TOTARRA. 571 
Conifere Juss., what he considered, from his then imperfect 
materials, one species of Phyllocladus, two of Podocarpus and 
four of Dacrydium. Recent investigations in that island, 
especially those of Mr. Colenso, still resident in the Bay of 
Islands, (where his kindness and attention to the Botanist and 
other officers of H. M. Discovery-Ships, Erebus and Terror, 
when they wintered there in 1841, demand, even in this 
place, our grateful acknowledgments), of Dr. Diefenbach and 
Mr. Edgerley, have contributed some additional species, and 
enabled us to describe more correctly those that have been 
previously noticed. My present object is to give a figure 
and brief description of the two mentioned at the head of 
this article, and I shall first notice the 
Tuusa Donrana, Hook. (Tas. XVIII.) 
Ramis compressis, folis quadrifariam imbricatis late 
ovatis breviter obtuse acuminatis dorso carinatis, capsulis 
erectis ovatis profunde 4-valvibus, valvis oblongis dorso 
spina elongata subulata, duabus exterioribus quadruplo mi- 
noribus, seminibus bialatis, ala altera maxima. 
Dacrydium? plumosum. Don, in Lamb. Pin. ed. 9. App. 
All. Cunn. Bot. of N. Zeal. in Tayl. Ann. of Nat. Hist. 
vol. 1. p. 213.—Kawaha indig. 
Has. Forests near the Bay of Islands, &c. Bennett, A. Cun- 
ningham, Colenso, (* only on the high ridges of hills"). Near 
Hokianga ; Edgerley, in forests. 
Arbor 60-70-pedalis (Bennett, Edgerley ; Ee eg All. 
Cunn.) Truncus diametro 2-31 pedalis. Rami teretes, de- 
nudati, cortice fusco (epidermide deciduo) tecti; vel foliis 
Sparsis vetustis squamosi: ramulis omnibus distichis, 
compressis, dense foliosis. Folia parva, arcte imbricata, qua- 
drifariam inserta, late ovata, breviter sed obtuse acuminata, 
dorso carinata. FLORES, masc. et fem. mihi ignoti. Fnuc- 
TUS: capsule solitariz, erecte, sessiles, ex apicibus ramulorum 
brevium, ovate, obtuse, semiunciam longe, demum in 
valvis 4 inzqualibus dehiscentes; valvis 2 exterioribus mi- 
noribus, 2 interioribus quadruplo majoribus, omnibus dorso 
