149 



Superficial 



ft. 



Will yield 1,124 



1,620 



3,644 



6,480 



10,124 



12,124 



He adds : "It will thus be seen that a tree which at two 

 feet diameter would yield 1,620 superficial feet of timber would, 

 if allowed to grow five years longer, yield 3,644 feet, or, in other 

 words, it would be worth double the money ; and if allowed to 

 grow for ten years, would yield exactly four times the amount 

 of timber which a diameter of two feet would yield. 



There are several specimens of this species in the Temperate 

 House at Kew. 



Baker and Smith, Pines of Australia, 370 (1910). 



Agathis vitiensis, Bentham and Hooker. 

 Fijian Kauri Pine. 



Diikiia Wood ; Dakiia Tree. 



A tree 50-60 or occasionally 100 ft. high, with a clean trunk 

 00 ft. high and a girth of 23 ft. Bark whitish externally, reddish 

 within, the outer bark peeling off in strands. Young shoots 

 greenish. Terminal buds small, brown, rounded, with tightly- 

 pressed scales. Leaves very variable in size and shape, narrowly 

 or broadly ovate, 2-5 in. long, ^-11 in. wide ; leathery, dark 

 glossy green above, paler and duller, or sometimes glaucous 

 beneath, both surfaces marked by numerous parallel lines, 

 narrowed at both ends, the apex blunt and rounded, the base 

 ending in a flat stalk up to | in. long. Male catkins cylindrical, 

 1-1^ in. long, I in. wide, shortly stalked or sessile. Co7ie glau- 

 cous, ovoid or rounded, the apex tapering abruptly, 4-5 in. long, 

 about 4 in. wide ; scales fan-shaped, 1-1 j in. across, thickened 

 at the top. Seed about I in. long, wing | in. long by | in. wide. 



Native of the Fiji Islands, where it is abundant in the islands 

 of Vanua Levu and Viti Levu. Specimens were first collected 

 in 1858 by Mr. Milne of H.M.S. Herald. 



Interesting descriptions of this tree and its uses are given by 

 Seemann in his Flora Vitiensis and by Mr. John Horn in A Year 

 in Fiji, pp. 70 and 116. Horn describes a remarkable tree he 

 saw in Viti Levu which was nearly 100 ft. high ; its trunk, when 

 measured at 6 ft. above the ground, was found to be 25 ft. in girth. 

 At about 20 ft. from the ground the trunk had been broken, and 

 had divided into a number of upright growing shoots, each with 

 the dimensions of a tree of more than medium size. 



The wood is said to be usually white, although sometimes 



