Colensoane. N. O. Conifere. 
TAB. DXLII. 
PopoCcARPUS FERRUGINEA. Don. 
Foliis distichis pectinatis lineari-falcatis coriaceis uninerviis, 
flore foemineo solitario in apicem ramuli proprii multibracteati, 
fructu juniore ovato-attenuato, receptaculo carnoso nullo, 
drupa ovali-subspherica magnitudine nucis avellane. 
Podocarpus ferruginea. Don, in Lamb. Pin. App. All. Cunn. in 
Ann. of N. Hist. v. 1, p. 212. 
Has. New Zealand. Northern Island. Bennett. Colenso. 
Dieffenbach. Edgerley. R. Cunningham. 
With justice this is named by Mr. Don ferruginea; forthe 
dry specimens have a red-brown tinge, by which, as well as the 
broader and falcate Jeaves, it is at once distinguished from P. 
spicata (Tab. pxu111.) which turns black in drying; and still 
more certainly by the solitary male catkins, and solitary female _ 
flower (never arranged in spikes) and large fruit, which is scarlet, — 
and greedily devoured by wood-pigeons. The tree, it is said, 
attains a height of from forty to sixty feet, with a diameter of — 
four feet in the stem. This is the Miro or Mairi of the natives. — 
I have to regret a considerable degree of inaccuracy in the — 
internal structure of the female flower and fruit, as here repre- _ 
sented, which was not detected till too late to be corrected: 
Figs. 4 and 10 should therefore be considered as cancelled. In 
the former, especially, the descending ovule should be made to 
reach an opening at the margin near the base. But the precise 
structure of the flowers and fruit of this group of Conifere can — 
only be really satisfactorily delineated from recent specimens. — a 
Fig. 1. Male catkin. f. 2. Outer, and—f. 3. inner view of 
an anther. f. 2 dis, (upper right-hand figure) female flower on its 
bracteated branch or pedicel. f. 4. Section of the female 
flower (inaccurate). f.5. Drupe, and—f. 6 and 7, the same 
laid open (nat. size). jf. 8. Seed, the outer coat being remo 
(nat. size). f.9. The nucleus. f. 10. Seed cut through verti- 
cally (inaccurate) ; all but f. 5-8 more or less magnified. 
