Menziesiane. N. O. Conifere. 
TAB. DXLIV. 
PoDOCARPUS? BIFORMIS. 
Foliis undique insertis, aliis uncialibus laxis patentissimis seu 
reflexis linearibus acutiusculis supra planis dorso obscure 
carinatis, aliis minimis arctissime imbricatis ovato-rhombeis 
opacis obtusis medio affixis dorso superne precipue carinatis. 
Has. New Zealand, probably the Southern Island. Mr. 
Menzies : Herb. Banks and Hook. 
I have seen only two specimens of this very remarkable 
plant ; the one, here figured, in which the upper or younger 
branches in general bear minute, short, and closely imbri- 
cated leaves ; and that in the Banksian herbarium, in which the 
lower and older portions have that character, and the upper 
bear the large and spreading kind of foliage. These two sorts 
of leaves are so different, that if they grew on two separate 
plants, no one could suppose them to belong to one and the same 
species. In many Junipers, in Dacrydium elatum, and several 
allied genera, the leaves do vary remarkably in different stages 
of growth, but I know of none in which the two forms of leaf 
are so totally unlike each other, as in the present case. The 
plant resembles Lycopodium Phlegmaria, with its branched 
spikes of fructification. I regret that neither of the specimens 
offers any fructification ; but the plant is too interesting to re- 
main longer unpublished in our Herbaria, 
Fig. 1. Upper, and—f.2. Underside of one of the larger 
leaves. f. 3. Apex of a branch, with the smaller leaves. f. 4. 
Under side of a leaf, from the same :—magnified, 
