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scattered at irregular distances along the stem ; lateral ones, 

 rounded, spreading, or drooping, frequently abortive, but pro - 

 ducing numerous short ramules, full of leaves, which sometimes 

 are so plentiful as to entirely hide the branches, while at other 

 times they are very distant ; female flowers, solitary, terminal, 

 and without, or on very short footstalks ; receptacle, fleshy, 

 connected at the base, and open only on the top, which is ob- 

 tuse. Fruit, inversely egg-shaped, almost drupaceous, about 

 the size of a pea, and furnished on the apex with a little flexible 

 point. 



A large tree, growing 200 feet high in swampy places, with 

 a greyish-white bark ; found on the Northern Island of New 

 Zealand, where it is called by the natives ' Kahi-Katea ;' and its 

 little succulent fruit, which is sweetish, and produced in great 

 abundance, is eaten by the inhabitants. 



It is quite tender. 



