234 FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. [ Conifere. 
One of the most remarkable and beautiful trees in New Zealand, conspicuous, especially when young, for its 
pyramidal form, pale green colour, and very long weeping branches. Trunk 80 feet high, 4-5 in diameter. Wood red, 
solid, heavy, excellent. From the young branches spruce-beer was manufactured by Captain Cook, which proved 
an excellent remedy for scurvy. Leaves of two forms; those on the young weeping branches patent, needle-shaped, 
sharp, spreading, two lines long; those on the older branches shorter, imbricated, blunter. Fruit borne on short 
curved branchlets, solitary, sessile. Seed surrounded at the base by a cup-shaped disc, which is eaten by the 
natives. 
2. Dacrydium Colensoi, Hook.; frutex v. arbuscula polymorpha, habitu varia, foliis laxe v. arcte im- 
bricatis v. undigue patentibus biformibus, aliis lineari-elongatis obtusis patulis, aliis crassis brevissimis 
dense imbricatis trigonis carinatis, amentis 3 sessilibus terminalibus solitariis, antheris paucis obtusis obtuse 
carinatis, seminibus parvis lateralibus disco carnoso insidentibus. Hook. lo. Pl. 4. 548. Podocarpus ? 
biformis, Jc. Pl. t. 544. 
Has. Mountains of the Northern and Middle Islands. Dusky Bay, Menzies. Tongariro and Rua- 
hine mountains, Colenso. Mountains around Nelson, elev. 4000—6000 feet, Bidwill. 
One of the most variable plants in New Zealand, which certainly contains an extraordinary proportion of 
singularly Protean plants. In its largest form it attains 12 feet in height, and has long spreading prostrate branches ; 
other forms are reclinate or erect, prostrate or creeping. Stems and branches stout and woody, covered below with 
small scale-like broad triangular coriaceous leaves. Leaves of many forms on the same branch, or uniform, all 
coriaceous, deep-green and polished: those of one kind linear, blunt, spreading, 4-4 inch long, with a stout midrib ; 
while others are densely imbricated, triangular, blunt, thick, coriaceous, 4 line long, and give the stem a square 
appearance. Male catkins terminal, solitary, sessile, of four to six imbricating anthers, consisting of a broad blunt 
ovate connectivum, and two loculi at the lower margins. Seeds small, coriaceous, lateral, axillary, seated on a hori- 
zontal cup-shaped resinous disc. 
3. Dacrydium Zawifolium, Hook. fil.; fruticulus elongatus, gracilis, prostratus, foliis parvis biformibus, 
aliis laxe imbricatis patulis linearibus obtusis dorso convexis, aliis (plerisque) imbricatis brevissimis ovatis 
obtusis obtuse carinatis, amentis terminalibus sessilibus solitariis, antheris paucis imbricatis obtusis, 
seminibus parvis terminalibus ramulisve brevissimis axillaribus disco carnoso insidentibus. Hook. Ic. Pt. 
6. 815. 
Has. Mountains of the Northern and Middle Islands. Tongariro and mountains of Nelson, elev. 
6000-7000 feet, Bidwill. Ruahine range, Colenso. Nat. name, “ Rimu,” Bidwill. 
A very remarkable little species, one of the smallest Pines in the world, covering the ground in patches 
5-6 feet long. Mr. Bidwill says the natives call it “ Rimu,” the name in common use for young plants of D. 
cupressinum, as also for seaweeds and plants assuming this habit, not only throughout New Zealand, but in the 
Pacific Islands, whose inhabitants speak kindred tongues with the Maori (I was in error in supposing (Ic. Plant.) 
that Mr. Bidwill thought this a var. of D. cupressinum, from his having attached the name of “ Rimu” to it). Stems 
slender, woody, prostrate, flexible. Branches very slender, covered with leaves of two forms, each of them like those 
of D. Colensoi, but much smaller; these two forms pass into one another in this plant, which they do not so evi- 
dently in D. Colensoi. Fruit scarlet, terminal or lateral. 
Gen. V. PHYLLOCLADUS, Br. 
Amenta & solitaria v. fasciculata. Anthere utin Dacrydium. Fr. $ solitarii v. in conum glomerulumve 
carnosum aggregati. Ovarium squamula cyathiformi sessile, solitarium, seepius pedunculo carnoso cupuli- 
formi immersum. Fructus subbaccatus v. siccus, disco immersus.— Folia in phyllodia connata. 
The ** Celery-leaved Pines" are natives of New Zealand, Tasmania, and the mountains of Borneo ; they form small 
