Dacrydium. | CONIFER. 655: 
in New Zealand. The wood is deep-red, strong, hard, and heavy, but often 
twisted in the grain. It is largely used for building purposes of all kinds and for 
the manufacture of furniture, but is not nearly as durable as either kauri or 
totara. 
5. D. intermedium, 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. x. (1878) 
386, t. 20.—A small tree 20-40 ft. high or more; branches spread- 
ing; trunk 1-2 ft. diam., rarely more; bark brownish-grey. Leaves: 
of very young plants lax, spreading, ++in. long, narrow linear- 
subulate, acute, curved, terete ; gradually passing into the leaves of 
young trees, which are closer-set, squayrose or erecto-patent, 4-1 in. 
long, broadly subulate, trigonous, acute. These again pass by im- 
perceptible transitions into those of mature trees, which are densely 
quadrifariously imbricate and appressed to the branch, ;4—4, in. 
long, ovate-triangular or rhomboid, obtuse, keeled, very thick and 
coriaceous. Flowers dicecious or rarely moneecious. Males usually 
abundantly produced, solitary, terminal, sessile, about +in. long; 
anthers numerous; connective broadly triangular, acute. Female 
flowers solitary at the tips of the branchlets. Nut oblong, obtuse 
or apiculate, faintly striate, not compressed, 4-4 in. long, enclosed 
at the base in a short cup-shaped aril.—VForest Fl. t. 86; Pilger in 
Pflanzenreich, iv. 5, 51. 
NortH Is~tanp: Between the Bay of Islands and Whangarei, R. Mair! 
Great Barrier Island, Kirk ! from Cape Colville to the Thames goldfields and 
Te Aroha, Kirk ! Adams! T.F.C.; from Lake Taupo to the Ruahine Mountains. 
and the Tararua Range, Colenso! Tryon! Mair! A. Hamilton! Souru Isuanp,. 
Stewart IsuanD: Not uncommon in mountain forests, chiefly on the western 
side of the island. Sea-level to 4000 ft. Mountain-pine ; Yellow Silver-pine. 
Wood reddish-yellow, highly resinous and very inflammable, of great 
strength and durability; largely used in Westland (together with D. Colensoi), 
for railway-sleepers, telegraph-poles, &c. 
6. D. Colensoi, Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 548 (not of Hook. f.).—A 
small tree 20-40 ft. high or more, very similar in mode of growth 
to D. intermedium, but rather taller and more conical, with a 
straighter and cleaner trunk; branchlets more slender, often 
flexuous, j,—;4,1n. diam. Leaves of very young plants lax, spread- 
ing, +4 in. long, narrow linear-subulate, terete, decurrent at the 
base; gradually passing into the leaves of young trees, which are: 
more closely set, 4-4 in. long, lanceolate or narrow - triangular,. 
acute, falcate, flat, decurrent at the base, often more or less spreading 
in one plane, giving the branchlets a distichous appearance. These: 
pass by insensible gradations into those of mature trees, which 
are small and scale-like, densely quadrifariously imbricate and 
appressed to the branch, ;4,-;4, in. long, rhomboid, obtuse or sub- 
acute, thick and coriaceous, keeled, apex often incurved. Flowers 
dicecious. Males solitary, terminal, sessile, 4-4in. long; anthers 
numerous ; connective broad, triangular, acute. Female flowers at 
the tips of the branchlets. Nuts 1 or 2, oblong, obtuse, not com- 
