142 PHYLLOCLADUS. 



No. 5. Phyllocladus trichomanoides, Don, the Maiden- 

 hair-like Phyllocladus. 



Leaflets, numerous and pinnated in two rows, obliquely 

 wedge-shaped, feathery-nerved, lobed, or pinnatifidly divided, 

 with the lobes terminating very abruptly, and toothed on the 

 edges, regularly flattened on the upper surface, furrowed, 

 alternate, and channelled at the base, deeply divided, with the 

 divisions somewhat two-rowed, without any footstalks, and 

 indented or crenated, but frequently a little undulated, of a 

 green or reddish-green colour when young, but of a brilliant 

 red or brown colour when old, and in winter. Branches, 

 frequently in whorls of five, spreading, and cylindrical ; 

 branchlets, leaf-like, slender, short, spreading, or deflected, and 

 either in whorls or somewhat in two rows ; male flowers 

 terminal, in close heads, and cylindrical ; female ones in small 

 clusters, and terminal. Fruit, connected in small heads, two or 

 three together. Seeds, very small, oval-pointed, nut-like, 

 solitary, and half enclosed in a fleshy covering. Seed leaves 

 in twos. 



A graceful tree, with a straight, cylindrical stem, and 

 spreading branches, growing 60 or 70 feet high, and three feet 

 in diameter, found in the forests of Tamesin, on the northern 

 island of New Zealand, where it is called by the natives — 

 ' Tanekaha,' or *Toa-Toa.' 



Timber excellent, and so heavy, as almost to sink in water. 



It is not hardy. 



