26 A HANDBOOK OF CONIFERS 



plants are rarely met with, although at least half of them ought to 

 succeed out of doors in the mildest parts of the country. 



Pilger in Pflanzenreich, 18, iv, 43 (1903). 



Dacrydium araucarioides, Brongniart and Gris. 



A tree of candelabrum form, seldom exceeding 20 ft. in height. 

 Branches erect, fastigiate. Branchlets short, thick, cylindrical. 

 Leaves of young plants linear, erect or slightly spreading, those of 

 mature plants scale-like, linear-oblong, about | in. long, and densely 

 overlapping in many rows, rigid, strongly curved, keeled beneath, 

 blunt at the apex. Male floivers terminal, oblong-cylindric. 

 Female floivers on shoots which become purple and fleshy at the 

 apex when the seeds are ripening. Seeds 1-3, ovoid, up to about 

 I in. long. 



A remarkably distinct species found only in New Caledonia, 

 where it is generally distributed in dry situations on serpentine 

 rocks. 



Economic properties of no importance. 



Compton, Joum. Linn. Soc. XLV, 427 (1922). 



Dacrydium Balansae, Brongniart and Gris. 



A tree up to 25 ft. high with ascending fastigiate branches. 

 Leaves arranged in many rows, thick, rigid, scale-like, densely 

 overlapping, narrowly lance-shaped, strongly curved. Male 

 flowers solitary, cylindrical. Seed ovoid, compressed. 



Native of New Caledonia. 



Of no economic importance. 



Compton, loc. cit. 427. 



Dacrydium Beccarii, Parlatore.^ 



A little-known species, described as a shrub of elegant habit 

 12-15 ft. high. Leaves crowded on the branchlets, awl-shaped, 

 rigid, prickly, keeled. Seed broadly ovoid, about i in. long. 



Native of Borneo, where it appears to be of no economic value. 



Dacrydium Bidwillii, Hooker fil. 

 Mountain Pine 



Bog-pine ; Tarwood. 



An erect or prostrate, densely branched shrub 2-10 ft. high, 

 the lower branches sometimes rooting and forming plants up to 

 20 ft. across. Leaves very variable, those of young plants and of 

 the lower branches of old plants, spreading, crowded, linear, 

 stalkless, |-J in. long ; the leaves of upper branches, particularly 

 of old specimens, small, scale-like, triangular, blunt, leathery, 

 sV-tV in. long. Male flowers solitary, yV-i in. long. Seeds one or 

 iDe Cand, Prod. XVI, 2, 494 (1868). 



