Dacrydium. | CONIFER. 653 
(usually 3-4), oblong, obtuse, compressed, striate, about 4 in. long. — 
Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. x. (1878) 390, t.19; Forest Fl. t. 97; 
Hook. f. Ic. Plant. t. 1219; Pulger in Pflanzenreich, iv. 5, 46. 
Nort Isuanp: In forests from Hokianga to the Manukau Harbour, rare 
and local. Whangaroa, Hector and Buchanan! between Hokianga and the 
Northern Wairoa, Petrie! between the Bay of Islands and Whangarei, R. Mair! 
T. F.C.; Great Barrier Island, Kirk! Titirangi (near Auckland), 7. F.C. 
Sea-level to 2000 ft. Monoao. 
A handsome tree, distinguished from its immediate allies by the large size, 
the large leaves of the young trees and lower branches of the old ones, the 
almost terete fertile branchlets, and the usually numerous nuts. The transition 
from the long linear leaves of the young state to the small scale-like leaves of 
the old plant is most abrupt. Both forms can often be found on the same 
branch. The wood is pale brownish-red, strong and compact, and exceedingly 
durable. 
2. D. biforme, Pilger in Pflanzenreich, iv. 5, 45.—A small tree 
15-30 ft. or 40ft. high, in alpine localities often dwarfed to a 
few feet; trunk short, 1-2ft. diam.; bark dark-brown ; branches 
stout, clothed with the persistent and indurated leaves; mature 
branchlets tetragonous. Leaves of two forms; those of young 
plants and on the lower branches of old ones spreading, $-$in. 
long, #,-;4,in. broad, linear, acute, narrowed into a very short 
broad often twisted petiole, flat, coriaceous ; midrib distinct. 
Leaves of old or fertile branchlets small and scale-like, densely 
quadrifariously imbricate and closely appressed, 34-7; in. long, 
triangular or rhomboid-triangular, obtuse, very thick and coriaceous, 
stoutly and prominently keeled on the back. Flowers diccious. 
Males solitary, terminal, sessile, about 4in. long; anthers 4-6; 
connective ovate, obtuse. Female flowers near the tips of the 
branchlets. Nuts 1-2 (usually solitary), oblong, obtuse, striate, 
compressed, about ;1, in. long.—D. Colensoi, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 
i. 234, and Handb. N.Z. Fl. 259 (not of Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 548) ; Kirk 
in Trans. N.Z. Inst. x. (1878) 890; Forest Fl. t.96. Podocarpus(?) 
biformis, Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 544. 
Norte Istanp: Mountain districts from Tongariro and the Ruahine 
Mountains southwards, not common. SoutH Isuanp, Stewart Isnanp: Not 
uncommon in mountain forests throughout. Usually from 2000 to 4500 ft.,. 
but descends to sea-level in the south-west of Otago and on Stewart Island. 
Yellow-pine ; Tar-wood. 
This is for the most part the D. Colensoi of the Flora and the Hand- 
book ; but, as shown elsewhere, not the plant originally described under that 
name by Sir W. J. Hooker. 
3. D. Bidwillii, Hook. f. ex T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. x. 
(1878) 888.—A closely branched erect or prostrate shrub 2-10 ft. 
high ; lower branches spreading, sometimes reclinate and rooting ; 
upper more erect, frequently giving a pyramidal form to the plant ; 
trunk short, 3-9in. diam. Leaves of two forms; those of young 
plants and on the lower branches of old ones spreading, crowded, 
