572 ON A NEW SPECIES OF THUJA, 
spinula foliosa horizontali, fere semiunciam longa, donata. 
Semina 2, ovata, bialata; alis ineequalibus; unica superiore 
maxima appendiculiformi ; altera inferiore angusta. 
This seems to have been first made known to European 
botanists by Mr. George Bennett, who brought specimens 
from New Zealand to Mr. Lambert, and spoke of the tree 
as attaining *a height of from 60 to 70 feet, with a trunk 
from eight to ten feet in cireumference. "The timber is of a 
red colour, and of an excellent quality for either plank or 
spar. No gum-resin is produced by this tree. The natives 
informed me that it derived its name Kawaha from the 
branches growing out regularly on each side of the tree." 
Mr. Yates says of it, that the wood is elegantly grained, 
close and heavy, and would make beautiful picture-frames 
if they were required of a deep stain, but that it is not much 
known, and has never yet been sought after to be applied to 
any useful purposes. The fruit seems to be rare, for it was 
unknown to every collector till Mr. Edgerley brought me 
fine fructified specimens in the summer of 1842, from which 
the accompanying figures were made. It is singular that 
Mr. Don and Mr. A. Cunningham should refer this plant, 
whose habit is so completely that of a Thuja, to Dacrydium. 
Of the four species placed under Dacrydium by Mr. A. 
Cunningham in his Botany of New Zealand, only one truly 
belongs to that genus. 
Tas. XVIII. Thuja Doniana. Fig 1. capsule; f. 2. the 
same expanded ; f. 3. ditto, the seeds removed ; f. 4, 5. seeds: 
all more or less magnified. 
Popocareus Torara, (Tas. XIX.) 
Foliis undique patentibus lineari-lanceolatis pungenti-acutis 
basi angustatis uninerviis utrinque (siccitate) obsolete striatis, 
subtus obscure glaucescentibus, fructibus axillaribus soli- 
tariis brevi-pedunculatis. 
Podocarpus? Totara, Don in Lamb. Pin. ed. 2. App. (excl. 
syn.) All. Cunn. Bot. of N. Zeal. in Tayl. Ann. of Nat. 
Hist. v. 1, p. 212, (excl. syn. Dacrydii taxifol.) 
