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A large tree, 80 feet high, yielding a good durable wood. eaves linear, straight or slightly falcate, blunt or 
apiculate, glaucous below. Male catkins 2-3 lines long, distant, horizontal, on terminal spikes. Anthers acute. 
Drupes numerous towards the ends of the branches, sometimes spiked, roundish, 4 inch long, sweet and eatable. 
4. Podocarpus Totara, Cunn.; arborea, folis undique imbricatis breve petiolatis valde coriaceis acu- 
minatis pungentibus, amentis 3 aggregatis pedunculatis bracteolatis, antheris eroso-dentatis, drupis pedun- 
culo baccato solitariis binisve. Don, in Lamb. Pin. A. Cunn. Prodr. Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. v. 1. 
pi h 19. 
Has. Throughout the Northern and Middle Islands, Menzies, ete. Nat. name, “Totara,” Cunn. 
(Cultivated in England.) 
A large tree, 60 feet high and 6-8 in circumference, spreading, yielding a red wood, only equalled by that of 
the Dammara for lightness, toughness, and durability. Its value formerly was said to be so great, that good growing 
trees became heir-looms, and disputes for possession led-to bloodshed. Bark used for roofing. Leaves 3-14 inch 
long, placed all round the branches, spreading, very thick and coriaceous, pungent, pale green, linear, acuminate, 
with an indistinct midrib. Male catkins short, thick, blunt, solitary or two together, pedunculate ; peduncle bracteate 
at the top. Connectivum of the anthers eroso-dentate. Drupes solitary or two together, placed on a swollen pe- 
duncle, which forms an eatable fruit bigger than the berry. 
5. Podocarpus daerydioides, A. Rich.; arborea, foliis biformibus, aliis ramulorum juniorum distichis 
(more Selaginella) patulis curvis falcatis linearibus acuminatis, aliis ramulorum seniorum minimis undique 
imbricatis late subulatis acuminatis dorso carinatis, amentis & parvis solitariis terminalibus, antheris acutis, 
drupis subexsuccis parvis pedunculo baccato sessilibus. A. Rich. Flor. p. 358. 4. 89. A. Cunn. Prodr. 
P. thujioides, Br. Plant. Jav. Dacrydium thujioides, Banks et Sol. MSS. 
Has. Northern Island. Common as far south as Auckland; rare beyond it, Banks and Solander, 
ete. Nat. name, “ Kahi-katea," Cunn. (Cultivated in England.) 
A common gregarious tree of great size, 150 feet high and 15 in circumference, branching at the top. Roots 
spreading over swampy ground. Wood white, soft and spongy, of no use. Leaves of two forms; those in young 
trees and branches pinnate, curved, linear, with acuminate up-turned points, + inch long, nerveless, on slender 
branches, which are used by the natives for making eel-baskets. Leaves on old branches small, subulate, acumi- 
nate, 2 lines long, appressed and imbricating, keeled at the back. Male catkins small, solitary, sessile, terminal ; 
anthers acute. Drupes small, gibbous, on swollen peduncles, eaten by the natives. 
Gen. IV. DACRYDIUM, Sod. 
FL. 5. Amenta terminalia. Anthere imbricate ; loculis 2, lateraliter dehiscentibus. Fu. 2. solitarii, 
axillares v. terminales. Ovulum disco cupuliformi solitarium, erectum. Fructus 3-drupaceus. Semen nuci- 
forme, disco baccato immersum, erectum. 
A genus in all respects very similar indeed to Podocarpus, but the ovule and seed are erect, and the berry is 
formed by the seed becoming included within the swollen fleshy disc. The species are few, and natives of 
Tasmania and the Malay Islands, as well as of New Zealand; many have beautiful long weeping branches. The 
Huon Pine of Tasmania is D. Franklinii. (Name from darpv, a tear; in allusion to the weeping habit.) 
1. Dacrydium cupressinum, Don; arbor excelsa, ramis ramulisque pulcherrime pendulis, foliis biformi- 
bus, ramulorum juniorum undique imbricatis patentibus subulatis subacerosis, seniorum multoties minoribus 
laxe imbricatis subulatis subacutis, ramulis fructiferis arcuatis, semine disco carnoso obliquo cupulari im- 
merso. Don, in Lamb. Pin. p. 93. 6. 41.- Rich. Conf. p. 127. t. 2. A. Rich. Flora. A. Cunn. Prodr. 
Has. Throughout the Islands, abundant in forests, Banks and Solander, ete. Nat. name, “ Rimu.” 
(Cultivated in England.) 
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