IG ICONKS PLANTARUM. "^ 



compressis decurrenti-adnatis, ramnlis fructiferis strictiB foliis brevis- 

 simis carinato-trigonis arctissinie imbricatis obttisiSj nuculis minutia 

 oblongis, 



New Zealand, Middle Island ; in swampy land at Hokitita, West- 

 land, Tlios. Kirk (White silver pine). • ^> 



!Mr. Kirk says of this pine, *In Westland I met with a new Dacry- 

 dinm, with the young leaves resembling those of the Kahikatea 

 (Podocar2nis dacrydioides)^ the old those of a very fine state of Bacry- 

 dium Colensoi^ Hk. f. I have only immature fruit. The timber is 

 different from any other N'ew Zealand kind, and is valued for its dura- 

 bility. It is found in swampy land, and called the white silver pine ; 

 it appears to have been confounded with the Kahikatea.' 



The only New Zealand Dacrydimn which the specimen I possess of 

 this plant at all resembles is the Rimu (D. cupressinum, Don), which 

 has similar but more rigid leaves on the barren branchlets, and very 

 much stouter fertile branchlets, with more or less spreading leaves, — 



J. D. HOOKEK. 



1, Leaves of barren branchlets. 2. Apex of fertile branchlets. 3. Fruit. All 

 enlarged. 



Plate 1219. 



DACEYDIUM KIEKII, F, Miiell 



Conifers, Tribe Taxixe^. 



Kirkii. F, Muell 



lora 



Arhorea, ramn- 

 leviter falcatis 



snhacutis planis patentibus v. erecto-patentibTis, ramulis fertilibus 

 cum foliis subcylindraceis foliis brevissimis obtuse carinato-trigonis 

 densissime imbricatis, Tmculis apices versus ramnlornm axillaribus 

 oblongis compressis striatis apice rotundatls, 



I^ew Zealand, Great Barrier Island, alt. 2,000 ft., T. Kirlc - Manukao 

 harbour, and Tatirangi range, T. F. Cheeseman. 



m 



Folia ramis 



jnnionbus non fioriferis 1-1^ poll, longa, disticha v. sparsa, in petio- 

 lum brevissimnm scmi-tortum angnstata, coriacea, mntica, nitida, costa 

 snpra distinrta subtus obscura, marginibus tenuiter cardlagineis ; ramuli 

 frnctiferi apicem versus arboris densissime fastigiati dichotome'ramosi, 



foliis Darvis onnn's rlpnsismimp iml-tvipQfie of m^-r^^r^c^^:^ t^^n a j^ 



Amenta 



