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Dacrydium intermedium, T. Kirk. 

 Yellow Silver Pine. 



Mountain Pine. 



A small tree 20-40 ft. high, with a trunk 3-6 ft. in girth and 

 spreading branches. Leaves on young plants narrow- linear, 

 \-\ in. long, acute and curved, becoming closer set and shorter 

 on older plants, passing gradually into those of mature trees 

 which are densely crowded, overlapping, blunt, keeled, leathery, 

 tV-iV in. long. Male flowers abundantly produced, about \ in. 

 long, with numerous anthers. Seed oblong, blunt, or with a minute 

 point, \-\ in. long. 



The tree is widely distributed in New Zealand, being not 

 uncommon in mountain forests in the North and South Islands 

 and on the western side of Stewart Island. 



The reddish-yellow wood is highly resinous and very inflam- 

 mable, but very strong and durable. It is employed for railway 

 sleepers, boat-building, and for telegraph poles. 



Kirk, loc. cit. 167, t. 86. 



Dacrydium Kirkii, F. Mueller. 



Manoao. 



A tree 50-80 ft. high, with a trunk 3-6 ft. in girth. Bark 

 greyish -brown. Lower branches spreading, upper ones erect. 

 Leaves of young trees and on the lower branches of old ones yew- 

 like, linear, 1-1|- in. long ; those of mature branches small, scale- 

 like, closely pressed, iV'-J in. long, obtuse, thick and leathery, 

 with membranous margins. Male flowers solitary, |-^ in. long. 

 Female flowers forming a short oblong head, |-| in. long. Seeds 

 1-5, oblong, blunt, compressed, about | in. long. 



Found in the forests of the northern part of the North Island 

 of New Zealand, and most frequent between Hokianga and 

 Manukau Harbour, 



Hooker, Icon. Plant, t. 1219 (1S77) ; Kirk, he. cit. 191, t. 97. 



Dacrydium laxifolium, Hooker fil. 



Mountain Rimu. 



A prostrate or sub -erect shrub with slender trailing branches 

 not exceeding 2 ft. in length. Leaves of young plants lax, spread- 

 ing, narrow-linear, acute, curved, l-} in. long, passing gradually 

 into the adult leaves, which are linear -oblong, blunt or sub-acute, 

 2^5~2o in. long, spreading or overlapping scale -like. Male and 

 female flowers on the same or on different trees. Seed about 

 I in. long with a small curved point, borne on a dry or occasion- 

 ally succulent and swollen receptacle. 



