654 CONIFER. [Dacrydium. 
4itin. long, linear, obtuse, sessile by a comparatively broad base, 
flat, coriaceous; midrib usually distinct. Leaves on the upper and 
fertile branches small and scale-like, densely quadrifariously ap- 
pressed, =, in. long, triangular, obtuse, very thick and coria- 
ceous. Flowers diccious. Males solitary, terminal, sessile, +,—4 in. 
long. Female flowers near the tips of the branchlets. Nuts 1 or 
2, small, striate, compressed, obtuse, about 4, in. long.—Forest FI. 
t. 837; Pulger in Pflanzenreich, iv. 5, 46. 
Var. a, erecta, Kirk.—Main branches ascending or erect, giving the plant 
.a pyramidal or almost fastigiate outline. 
Var. b, reclinata, Kirk.—Main branches prostrate or horizontal. 
Norra Isnuanp: Summit of Moehau (Cape Colville), Adams! Ruahine 
Mountains, Colenso! lake Rotoaira, Tryon! Ruapehu, Rev. F. H. Spencer! 
SoutH Isuanp, SrEwart Is~taAnpD: Not uncommon in subalpine localities 
throughout. Usually from 2000-4500 ft., but descending to sea-level in Stewart 
Island. 
A near ally of D. biforme, principally differing in the smaller size and 
remarkably distinct habit, in the smaller linear leaves, which are sessile by 
a broad base, and in the more slender branchlets and smaller nut. When seen 
growing it is distinguished without any difficulty, but dried specimens not 
showing the linear leaves are easily confounded with slender states of 
D, biforme. 
4. D. cupressinum, Soland. ex Forst. Pl. Hscul. 80.—A tall 
forest-tree 60-80ft. or even 100ft. high, with a comparatively 
small round-topped head when mature, but pyramidal when young, 
with very long pale-green pendulous branches ; trunk 2-5 ft. diam. ; 
bark dark-brown, scaling off in large flakes. Leaves imbricating 
all round the branch ; of young trees lax, ascending, 4-4+in. long, 
linear - subulate, acute, almost acerose, decurrent at the base; 
gradually passing into those of the mature trees, which are much 
‘smaller and more closely set and more appressed to the branch, 
;,-+ in. long, linear, acute, trigonous, keeled at the back. Flowers 
dicecious. Males solitary or rarely 2 together at the tips of the 
branchlets, oblong ; connective broadly ovate, acuminate. Female 
flowers solitary on the curved tips of the branchlets. Nut ovoid, 
barely compressed, about $in. long, seated within a cup-shaped 
aril; receptacle and bracts sometimes enlarged, fleshy and coloured, 
at other times remaining dry and unaltered.—A. Rach. Fl. Nowv. 
Zel. 361; A. Cunn. Precur. nu. 332; Raoul, Choix, 41; Hook. f. Fl. 
Nov. Zel. i. 233; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 258; Kirk, Forest Fl. t. 18-22 ; 
Pilger in Pflanzenreich, iv. 5, 53. Thalamia cupressina, Spreng. 
Syst. iii. 890. 
Nort AND SouTH IsnANpDs, Stewart Istanp: Abundant in forests through- 
out. Sea-level to 2500 ft. Rimu ; Red-pine. 
A well-known tree, the young state of which, with its graceful shape and 
pale-green pendent branches, is perhaps as beautiful and attractive as any tree 
