THE INCENSE CEDARS. 133 



half an inch long, solitary, ovate, obtuse, and borne erect on the 

 points of the short branchlets. Scales, in two opposite pairs, 

 woody, with a solitary two- winged seed under each scale. 



A tree from thirty to seventy feet high, and two or three feet 

 in diameter ; found on the northern island of New Zealand, in 

 forests along the river Hokianga, near the Bay of Islands, also 

 on the wooded mountains more to the north, and on the higher 

 mountains of Nelson, at an elevation of from 4,000 to 6,000 feet, 

 where it is called * Kawaka' by the natives. Timber, hard, 

 resinous, and of a beautiful reddish colour. 



It is tolerably hardy in favourable situations in England. 



No. 3. LiBOCEDRUS TETRAGONA, EndUcher, the Tetragonal 

 Arbor- Vitse. 

 Syn. Thuja tetragona, Hooh.tr. 

 ,, Juniperus uvifera, Don. 

 „ Pinus cupressoides, Molina. 



Leaves, in four rows, oval, blunt-pointed, concave, hardly 

 two lines long, and closely adpressed, keeled on the back, much 

 sharper towards the apex, and of a light green colour. Branches, 

 horizontal, irregularly scattered along the stem ; branchlets, 

 placed in two rows, spreading, four-sided, and completely 

 covered by the leaves. Cones, solitary, ovate, erect, small, and 

 placed at the extremity of the short branchlets. Scales, woody, 

 or somewhat leathery ; alternate in three pairs ; the lower ones 

 small, and mostly abortive, the whole of them furnished with a 

 terminal, small, incurved spine near the apex. 



A magnificent evergreen tree, from just below the snow line 

 of the Andes of Patagonia, inhabiting the swampy places between 

 the mountains. It is also found in South Chili, as far as the 

 district of Magellan, where it becomes little more than a bush, 

 while on the mountains in the neighbourhood of Valdivia, and 

 on the Cordilleras, it becomes a large tree from sixty to a hun- 

 dred feet high, and eighteen or twenty feet in circumference, 

 with a straight stem. Timber, excellent, and very durable. 



It no doubt will prove quite hardy, but not yet introduced. 



