Colensoane. N. O. Coniferee. 
TAB. DXLIII. 
Popocarpus spicata. Br. 
odocarpus spicata. Br. in Horsf. Plant. Javan. p. 40. a a 
Dacrydium? Mai. Add. Cunn. in Ann. Nat. Hist. v. 1, p. 213, 
Has. New Zealand. Northern Island. In forests, at some 
distance from the sea-coast. All. Cunningham, R. Cunningham, 
Colenso, Bennett, Edgerley, Dieffenbach.—Mai or Metai of 
natives. 
This noble tree is said by Mr. Allan Cunningham to attain a 
height of eighty feet, producing a durable wood, or red pines, 
dos as cedar, but brittle, and furnishing very indifferent spars- 
The three New Zealand species of Podocarpus that are most 
nearly allied to each other, are P. Totara (figured in 
Journ. of Bot. v. 1, Tab. x1x.), P. ferruginea (see our prec 
plate), and the present. But even without their fructifica' 
they may easily be recognized ; the first having the larges 
broadest, almost lanceolate, and very acute foliage, drying 
very yellow hue. P. ferruginea has smaller, linear Te 
curved more or less like a sickle, pectinated by their very 4 
tichous direction, and turning reddish-brown in drying. 
P. spicata has narrower, straighter, very obtuse leaves, beco 
almost black in desiccation, and generally glaucous beneath, 
fructification is very peculiar; male catkins and fem 
flowers are all arranged on spikes of considerable length ; In 
ci thn SS eae a; er or] 
The drupes are much smaller than in the P. ferruginea, 2 
believe equally greedily devoured by bi 
Fig. 1. Female flower, or young fruit 
Drupe, and—/. 3. the same laid open :—nat. size f.4: 
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FSerous scale :—~—magnified. 
