AND ON PODOCARPUS TOTARRA. 573 
Has. New Zealand: the northern island. Banks of the Kowa- 
Kowa: and, no doubt, in various other localities not spe- 
cified by collectors, from the borders of rivers to the 
summit of Tongariro amid eternal snows. Bennett, Allan 
Cunningham, Colenso, Diefenbach, Edgerley 
Arbor excelsa. Truncus 80-90 pedalis; diametro 2-6 pe- 
dalis (All. Cunn., 5-7 ped. Bennett); cortice fibroso; ligno 
levi, rubro, tenaci. Ramuli teretes, (siccitate) striati, flavi, 
dichotome divisi, vel sepissime terni, foliis undique tecti. 
Folia pleraque horizontaliter patentia, unciam sesquiunciam 
longa, sepius aversa, lineari-lanceolata, rigida, acutissima, 
pungentia, obsoletissime striata, basi angustata, supra flavo-vi- 
ridia, nervo medio impresso, subtus pállida etiam glaucescentia, 
nervo medio parum elevato, margine recurvata. PLANTA 
masc.: Amenta longitudine foliorum, axillaria, solitaria, ses- 
silia, cylindracea, (siccitate) fusca, basi squamulis 3-4 viridi- 
bus fimbriatis vacuis. Anthere numerose, arcte imbricate, 
late ovate, apice laciniato-dentate, superiores minus dentate, 
breviter stipitate, loculis duobus marginales extrorsum ver- 
ticaliter dehiscentibus. PLANTA fem.: Pedunculi solitarii, 
axillares, nudi, vix lineam longi, superne in receptaculo ear- 
noso, primum oblongo demum subgloboso pisiformi 1-2- 
floro dilatati. Fructus junior oblongus v. ellipticus, maturus 
magis ovatus, 1. v. non raro 2 ex eodem receptaculo. 
The first account I find of this noble tree, is in a letter of 
George Bennett, Esq. to Mr. Lambert, (appended by 
this gentleman to the last edition of his splendid work on 
Pines), * On the Coniferous Plants of New Zealand," where 
it is said that:—‘ it is an unpublished species of Podo- 
carpus, called by the natives, Totara. It attains the 
height of 80 or 90 feet, and a circumference of 15 and 20 feet, 
and is considered the next in diameter to the Kowri. The 
timber produced from it is of a reddish colour, becoming 
darker from age and exposure; the wood is of excellent 
quality both in plank and spar, and is held in high estimation 
among the natives, particularly for the construction of their 
