Bidwilliane. N. O. Coniferze. 
TAB. DCCCXYV. 
Dacrypium Laxiroitum, Hook. fil. 
Humile fruticosum, ramis prostratis laxe ramosis gracilibus, foliis 
undique insertis sparsis laxe patentibus linearibus obtusis co- 
riaceis supra canaliculatis supremis imbricatis ovatis brevioribus 
dorso carinatis, fructibus terminalibus solitariis erectis. 
Dacrydium laxifolium. Hook. fil. in Lond. Journ. Bot. v. 4. p. 143 
(note). 
Has. New Zealand, near the summit of Tongariro, northern 
island, Mr. Bidwiil (nm. 5 and 133); Colenso (un. 60). 
Dr. Hooker, when describing this plant in the ‘ London Journal 
of Botany,’ above quoted, from Mr. Bidwill’s specimens, although 
expressing an opinion that it might possibly prove an alpine form 
of some known species, yet was more inclined to consider it truly 
distinct and new; and this view seems to be confirmed by Mr. Co- 
lenso having since communicated specimens which are quite un- 
altered from that described. The species seems wholly confined 
to the mountain Tongariro, where it forms a lax procumbent small 
shrub, not much unlike Hmpetrum nigrum. 
Fig.1. Lower leaves. f.2. Upper do. /. 3. Fruit. f 4. 
Section of a fruit. . 5. Section of a seed :-—magnified. 
