^6 DACRYDIUM. 



convex, and somewhat acutely keeled on the back, with the 

 inner face concave, and acute or obtuse-pointed, decurrent at 

 the base, and deep, glossy green, dotted on the outer sides with 

 a glaucous powder. Branches ascending or spreading, some- 

 times more or less deflected towards the bottom ; on the adult 

 trees, lateral ones very much loaded with branchlets. Branch- 

 lets, very numerous, dense, long, slender, and flexible. Male- 

 catkins, solitary, terminal on the ends of the branchlets, oval, 

 or rounded, and from one to two lines long. Fruit, small, and 

 in terminal spikes. 



A large, pyramidal tree, with spreading or pendant branches, 

 thickly clothed with spray, growing 100 feet high, and 20 feet 

 in circumference, found in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), on 

 the banks of the Huon River, and at Port Macquarrie. Timber 

 excellent for naval purposes. 



It is tolerably hardy in some situations in England. 



No. 6. Dacrydium laxifolitjm. Hooker, the loose-leaved 

 Dacrydium. 



Leaves, linear-obtuse, leathery, convex, and channelled on the 

 upper surface, tapering to the base, but not decurrent, the 

 lower ones loosely spreading, flaccid, and seldom exceeding 

 two lines in length, while those on the upper branches and 

 branchlets are oval, imbricated much shorter, and keeled on the 

 back. Branches loosely pendant or prostrate, branchlets very 

 slender and graceful. Fruit terminal on the end of the branch- 

 lets, solitary and erect. 



A dwarf little shrub, not growing more than three feet high, 

 but creeping along the ground, and very much resembling the 

 common crowberry (Empetrum nigrum). It is found on the 

 mountains of Nelson, at an elevation of from 6,000 to 7,000 

 feet, and on Mount Tongoriro in New Zealand. 



It will be tolerably hardy. 



