DACRYDIUM. 75' 



forests on the southern and middle islands of New Zealand, 

 particularly on the great mountains behind Dusky-Bay, where 

 the settlers call it the Native Spruce Fir, and the New 

 Zealanders ' Dium,' or * Rium.' 

 It is not hardy. 



No. 4. Dacrydium elatum, Wallich, the Lofty Dacrydium. 

 Syn. Juniperus elata, Roxburgh. 

 „ „ rigida, Sieber. 



„ „ Philippsiana, Wallich. 



Leaves, either needle-shaped, four-cornered, acute-pointed, 

 somewhat erect, and spreading, or scale-formed, ovate -obtuse, 

 rarely acute, and closely depressed, alternate, very dense, and 

 from four to seven lines long ; those on the stem and lower part 

 of the principal branches much shorter, more distant, wider, 

 decurrent, and slightly spreading at the points, while those on 

 the lesser branches and branchlets are needle-shaped, almost 

 cylindrical, spreading, slightly angular, compressed, and very 

 much smaller on the adult trees. Branches, numerous, scattered 

 along the stem, with the lower ones spreading, or bent down- 

 wards, and the upper ones mostly ascending ; branchlets, 

 slender, pendant, numerous, and thickly clothed with foliage ; 

 those of the adult trees being very much shorter, and covered 

 with small, scale-formed leaves, regularly imbricated. Fruit, 

 ovate, bluntly four-cornered, and solitary on the ends of the 

 branchlets. 



A lofty tree, with a cylindrical stem, covered with an ash- 

 grey bark, slightly furrowed, and very full of branches, found 

 on the mountains of Sumatra and Pulo-Penang, in the East 

 Indies, where its native name is ' Gambinur.' 



It is very tender. 



No. 5. Dacrydium Franklinii, Hooker, Capt. Franklin's 



Dacrydium, or Huon Pine. 



Syn. Dacrydium Huonense, Cunningham. 



Leaves, small, scale-formed, very closely pressed, and some- 

 what spirally decussate, ovate, rhomboid, and closely imbricated, 



