Agathis. | CONIFER. 645 
Leaves usually dimorphic, of mature trees small and scale- 
like. Peduncle of fruit dry or fleshy. Ovule at first 
reversed but ultimately erect. Seed seated in a mem- 
branous or fleshy aril . 4. DacRYDIUM. 
Branchlets expanded into broad and flat coriaceous leaf- 
like cladodes. True leaves reduced to minute scales. 
Ovule erect ne as ae ae .. 5, PHYLLOCLADUS. 
’ 1, AGATHIS, Salisb. 
Evergreen moncecious or dicecious trees, often of great size. 
Leaves subopposite or alternate, broad, flat, coriaceous ; nerves 
parallel. Male flowers solitary, axillary, peduncled ; peduncle fur- 
nished with imbricate scales at the top. Anthers densely spirally 
arranged on a cylindrical column ; cells 5-15, pendulous from the 
top of a rigid stipes. Female cones terminating short branchlets, 
broadly ovoid or globose; scales densely spirally arranged, tips 
broad. Ovules solitary or rarely 2 at the base of each scale and 
adnate to it, reversed. Mature cone globose or nearly so; scales 
closely imbricating and appressed, broad, flattened, hard bu, 
scarcely woody. Seeds 1 to each scale, very rarely 2, reversedt 
compressed, ovate or oblong; testa thin, produced into a mem- 
branous wing ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons 2. 
A genus of 6 or 7 species of timber-trees, ranging through the Malay 
Archipelago, north-east Australia, the Pacific islands, and New Zealand. The 
New Zealand species is endemic, although stated by Parlatore (D.C. Prodr. 
xvi. 2, 376) and Hichler (Naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien ii. 1, 67) to occur in 
‘Australia. 
1. A. australis, Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. viii. (1807) 312.— 
A lofty forest-tree, with a straight columnar trunk and rounded 
somewhat bushy head, highly resiniferous in all its parts, usually 
ranging from 80 to 100 ft. high, with a trunk 4-10 ft. diam., but 
attaining an extreme height of 150 ft., with a trunk 15-22 ft. diam. ; 
bark glaucous-grey, deciduous, falling off in large flat flakes. 
Leaves subopposite or alternate, sessile, very thick and coriaceous ; 
ot young trees lanceolate, 2-4in. long, +-4in. broad, gradually 
passing into those of mature trees, which are 3-14 in. long, linear- 
oblong or narrow obovate-oblong, obtuse. Blac oe Panicdcionat 
males #-14in. long, cylindrical. Female cones obovoid in the 
flowering stage, becoming almost spherical when ripe, erect, 2—3 in. 
diam. ; scales broad, flat, rather thin, falling away from the axis at 
maturity. Seeds 1 to each scale, ovate, compressed, winged.— 
Kirk, Forest Fl. tt. 79 to 81. Dammara australis, Lamb. Pin. 
ed. 1.2,14; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 325; Raowl, Choix, 41; Hook. f. 
Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 231; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 256. Podocarpus zamiz- 
folius, A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 360. 
Nort Isuanp: Abundant in forests from the North Cape to Tauranga and 
Kawhia. Sea-level to 2000 ft. Kauri, of the resin kapia. 
