of young plants to take its place. As to its habitat, D. Bidwillii may either 

 form an appreciable part of the subalpine vegetation on the slopes of the 

 mountains, where the ground is firm and often somewhat stony, or it may 

 grow in peat bogs. In this latter case it is often seen in clumps or scattered 

 singly over a surface covered with Sphagnum, Oreobolus, Carjyha, and other 

 bog-plants. 



The great difference between the leaves of the juvenile and adult states 

 of D. Bidwillii is well shown in the figure A of the accompanying plate, where 

 it will also be noticed that the larger linear spreading leaves of the juvenile 

 form pass most abruptly into the snuxller scale-like imbricating leaves of the 

 adult. In this respect D. Bidwillii agrees with D. biforme and D. Kirkii, 

 and differs altogether from the renuiinder of the New Zealand species, in 

 which the leaves of the juvenile plant pass by gradual transitions into those 

 of the adult. It should be mentioned that the linear leaves are not confined 

 to young plants, but can always be found on the lower branches of old ones. 



The genus Dacrydiwni is better developed in New Zealand than in any 

 other country, no less than seven species out of the sixteen that are known 

 being found in it. Of the remainder, four are from New Caledonia, three 

 from Malaya and the Philippine Islands (one of them being also recorded from 

 the Fiji Islands), one from Tasmania, and a single isolated species from South 

 Chile and Patagonia. These facts seem to point without much doubt to a 

 Malayan and Polynesian origin for the genus. 



Plate 187. Dacrydium, Bidwillii, drawn from specimens collected on the Nelson mountains, 

 at an elevation of 4,000 ft. A, branch from a young plant ; B, from a male plant ; C, from a female. 

 Fig. 1, juvenile leaves (x 2) ; 2, tip of branchlet, with male inflorescence (x 4) ; 3, leaf from mature 

 branch (x 5) ; 4 and 5, anthers (x 8) ; 6, tip of branchlet, with female inflorescence ( x 6) ; 7, female 

 flower (x8); 8, the same in longitudinal section ( x 8) ; 9, section of ovule (x8); 10, longitudinal 

 section of nut (x 8) ; 11, section of seed, showing embryo (x 12). 



