74 DACRYDIUM. 



No. 2. Dacrydium cupressiforme, Carriert, the Cypress- 

 formed Dacrydium. 



Leaves, scale-formed, dense, thick, short, and closely pressed 

 at the base, slightly convex, and keeled on the outer side, and 

 marked with a glaucous band on each side of the rib. Branches, 

 thin and spreading, lateral ones and branchlets slender, some- 

 what cylindrical, or slightly angular, from the leaves being 

 arranged in four rows. Fruit unknown. 



A compact bush, thickly covered with numerous small 

 branches, and resembling Dacrydium Franklinii, in a small 

 state, but said to be found on the mountains of New Zealand. 



It is quite tender. 



No. 3. Dacrydium cupressinum, Solander, the Cypress-like 



Dacrydium. 

 Syn. Thalamia cupressina, Sprengel. 



Leaves, awl-shaped, more or less four-sided, very dense, 

 rigid, alternate, irregularly decussate, sometimes loosely imbri- 

 cated, or spreading, fully adhering at the base, and decurrent ; 

 a quarter of an inch long, thickest at the base, tapering to an 

 obtuse, rounded point, and of a pale, yellowish-green colour. 

 Branches, scattered along the stem, lower ones spreading or 

 deflected, upper ones more or less ascending, regularly forked, 

 and much divided ; lateral ones, at irregular distances, forked, 

 slender, long, and pendant ; branchlets, filiform, very slender, 

 quite straight, seldom divided, gracefully drooping, thickly 

 covered with foliage, and of a pale, yellowish green, sometimes 

 a little copper-coloured. Male catkins without footstalks, 

 oblong, or ovate, and terminal ; female flowers, terminal, and 

 enclosed in an involucrum, which forms a sort of cup. Fruit, 

 solitary and terminal, in the form of a small red berry, con- 

 taining a black seed, and eaten by the natives. 



A noble tree, growing 200 feet high, and 15 feet in circum- 

 ference, with pendant branches, and long, slender, drooping 

 shoots, thickly clothed with small, spiny leaves, and very much 

 resembling some of the Lycopodiums. It is found in vast 



