658 CONIFER. [Phyllocladus.. 
* Cladodes pinnately arranged. 
Tree 50-70 ft. Cladodes 4-lin. Female flowers on the 
margins of the cladodes i. a8 oe .. 1 P. trichoma- 
noides. 
Tree 25-40ft. Cladodes 1-24in. Female flowers pe- 
duncled on the rhachis below the cladodes .. 2. P. glaucus. 
** Cladodes simple. 
Shrub or tree 5-25ft. Cladodes 4-lin. Female flowers 
on the margins of the cladodes near the base .. .. 3. P. alpinus. 
1. P. trichomanoides, D. Don. in Lamb. Pin. ed. ii. App. — 
A tall graceful tree 50-70 ft. high; trunk 1-3 ft. diam.; branches. 
whorled, slender, spreading. Cladodes or flattened leaf-like branch- 
lets alternate and distichous on whorled rhachises 1-3 in. long,. 
each rhachis and its cladodes resembling a pinnate leaf; each 
cladode 4-lin. long, obliquely cuneate or rhomboid, thick and 
coriaceous, lobed or pinnatifid, the lobes truncate or erose ; veins 
spreading. Leaves of seedling plants $-$in. long, narrow-linear,. 
soon deciduous ; of older plants reduced to minute subulate scales at 
the base of the rhachises of the cladodes or of the cladodes them- 
selves. Flowers monecious. Males in fascicles of 5-10 at the tips. 
of the branchlets, $-4in. long. Females on the margins of modified 
cladodes at the tips of the branchlets, cladodes much reduced in. 
size, often little more than a peduncle, each flower in the axil of a. 
minute subulate bract. Nuts solitary, compressed, half exserted 
beyond the thickened and fleshy scales; aril cupular, with an 
irregularly crenulate margin.— A. Cunn. Precur. n. 326; Raoul, 
Choiz, 41; Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 549, 550, 551; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. 
Zel. i. 235; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 259; Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. 
x. (1878) 881; Forest Fl. t. 6,7; Pilger im Pflanzenreich, iv. 5, 97. 
P. rhomboidalis, A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 363 (not of L. C. Rich.). 
NortH Istanp: In forests from the North Cape to Taranaki and Hawke’s 
Bay, not uncommon, Sourn Is~tAnpD: Northern portions of Nelson and 
Marlborough, advancing along the West Coast as far south as Westport. 
Sea-level to 2500 ft. Tanekaha ; Toatoa; Celery-leaved Pine. 
Wood white, close-grained, free from knots and other defects, very service- 
able for sleepers, piles, the timbers of bridges, and probably for general building 
purposes. Bark often used for tanning, and by the Maoris for the preparation of 
a red dye. 
2. P. glaucus, Carr. Trait. Gen. Conif. 502.—A small hand- 
some tapering tree 25-40 ft. high; branches stout, whorled; trunk 
12-18 in. diam., rarely more. Cladodes or flattened leaf-like branch- 
lets alternate and distichous on a rhachis 4-12in. long, glaucous. 
when young, 1-24in. long, rhomboid or obliquely ovate-cuneate, 
extremely coriaceous, deeply or coarsely toothed or lobed, lobes 
obtuse or acute. True leaves on seedling plants 4-1 in. long, linear, 
