652 CONIFERZ. [Dacrydium. 
near the tips of the branchlets, the bracts hardly differing from the 
foliage leaves. Ovuliferous scale free, at length exceeding the 
bract ; ovule solitary, at first more or less reversed, at length erect. 
Seeds ovoid, nut-like, seated within a membranous or fleshy cup- 
shaped aril. Cotyledons 2. 
About 16 species are known, natives of the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Aus- 
tralia and Tasmania, New Caledonia, New Zealand, and Chili. All the species 
found in New Zealand are endemic, 
A. Leaves of young plants spreading, linear, flat, abruptly passing imto the 
smaller mature scale-like leaves. Nuts 1-5 together. 
Height 50-80 ft. Leaves of young trees 1-1} in., shortly 
petiolate. Mature branchlets nearly terete. Nuts 
1-5, usually 3-4... is Fe es oe) LDDs) Karka. 
Height 15-30ft. Leaves of young trees 4—3in., shortly 
petiolate. Mature branchlets tetragonous, stout. 
Nuts 1-2 .. A ac tc Ae .. 2. D. biforme. 
Height 2-10ft. Leaves of young trees }-4in., sessile. 
Mature branchlets tetragonous. Nuts1-2 .. .. 3. D. Bidwitlii. 
B. Leaves of very young plants spreading, linear, terete, passing by gradual 
transitions into the mature scale-like imbricating leaves. Nuts usually 
solitary. 
Height 60-100ft.; branchlets pendulous. Leaves of 
mature plants ;,-tin., subulate, trigonous. Receptacle 
below the female flower often fleshy .. ve oh 
Height 20-40 ft.; branchlets not pendulous. Leaves of 
young trees (second stage) trigonous, not distichous. 
Mature branchlets ;,in. diam.; leaves ~,—1, in. long, 
obtuse. Nuts solitary ; aril short : ac 48 
Height 20-50ft., branchlets not pendulous. Leaves of 
young trees (second stage) flat, triangular, decurrent, 
often distichous. Mature branchlets ;4—; in. diam. ; 
leaves #)-jyin. long, subacute. Nuts often 2; aril 
large, sometimes reaching the middle of the nut .. 6. D. Colensot, 
Prostrate, 3-18 in. long; branches straggling. Leaves of 
mature plants either spreading, 4{—,in. long, or im- 
bricating, s—s5 in. is 3c *s 
1. D. Kirkii, F. Muell. ex Parl. in D.C. Prodr. xvi. ii. 495.—A 
tall tree 50-80 ft. high; trunk 2-3 ft. diam.; bark greyish-brown ; 
lower branches spreading, upper more erect. Leaves of two forms : 
those of young trees and on the lower branches of old ones large, 
erecto-patent, 1-14 in. long, linear, subacute, narrowed into a very 
short twisted petiole, flat, pale-green, coriaceous ; midrib distinct ; 
margins slightly cartilaginous. Leaves of the upper and fertile: 
branches small and scale-like, densely quadrifariously imbricate 
and appressed to the almost terete branchlets, #,-4 in. long, ovate- 
rhomboid, obtuse, thick and coriaceous, obtusely keeled on the 
back; margins thin, membranous. Flowers dicecious. Males soli- 
tary, terminal, sessile, }+in. long. Females at the tips of the 
branchlets, forming a short oblong head ++4in. long. Nuts 1-8. 
4, D. cupressinum. 
5. D. intermedium. 
7. D. laxifolium. 
