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Dacrydium elatum, Wallich. 



A tall tree of pyramidal habit with spreading branches and 

 weeping branchlets. Leaves of young plants and barren branch- 

 lets awl-shaped, densely arranged, spreading, deeply grooved, 

 -^-| in. long ; those on fertile branchlets small, scale-like, densely 

 overlapping, blunt or minutely pointed at the apex. Male 

 flowers cylindric. Seeds scattered on the sides of the fertile 

 branchlets, ovoid, \ in. long. 



Native of the Malay States, Borneo, the Philippine Islands, and 

 the Fiji Islands. 



The timber has no special economic importance. 



Dacrydium falciforme, Pilger. 



A tree or shrub with spreading branches. Leaves spreading 

 in two opposite ranks, leathery, obliquely or broadly lance-shaped, 

 |-2| in. long, ,'-;' in. broad, more or less curved near the base, 

 narrowing into a short stalk, the apex a sharp point. Female 

 floivers produced on scaly branches, ovule solitary. 



Native of Borneo and the Philippine Islands. 



Dacrydium Fonkii, Bentham. 



Lopidotliamnus Fonkii, Pliillipi. 



A densely branched shrub with short, erect branchlets. 

 Leaves scale-like, closely pressed, keeled on the back, apex blunt 

 and incurved. Seeds at the apex of branchlets, ovoid, up to 

 I in. long. 



Native of Chile. 



Dacrydium Franklini, Hooker fil. 

 HuoN Pine, 



A pyramidal tree 100 ft. high in Tasmania. Branchlets 

 slender. Leaves small, scale-like, about .j\ in. long, closely pressed, 

 strongly keeled, blunt and concave in mature plants resembling 

 those of a cypress but differing markedly in the presence of scat- 

 tered white stomata on the back. Cones very small, terminating 

 the branchlets, each with 4-8 scales. Seeds globular, about i'.. in. 

 in diameter. 



The Huon pine (so named from the river in D'Entrecasteaux 

 Channel, in the bed of which logs of the timber were found) occurs 

 on the southern and western coasts of Tasmania, where it was 

 first seen by Alan Cunningham in 1818. It is one of the best- 

 known trees in the island and yields a finely marked wood which 

 takes a high polish and is eminently suited for furniture and 

 cabinet work, but unfortunately it is not sufficiently plentiful for 

 regular export. Some good examples of the wood are to be seen 

 in Museum iii at Kew, and at the Imperial Institute. 



