PHYLLOCLADUS RHOMBOIDALLS. 123 



alternate on modified rachides or branchlets 5 12 inches long, rhom- 

 boidal or obliquely ovate-cuneate narrowed below into a short footstalk, 

 lobed or toothed, 0*75 2 inches long, very coriaceous, glaucous green, 

 Staminate flowers in clusters of ten twenty on rather stout peduncles 

 with one or two minute bracts at the base of each. Ovuliferous flowers 

 three six on each side of the rachis and taking the place of the 

 lower phylloclades, shortly pedunculate, ovoid, or globose-ovoid, 0*5 inch 

 long : ovules seated on a coriaceous cup-shaped disk, of which there are 

 ten twenty in each flower. Fruit about the size of a small hazel nut, 

 the seeds projecting beyond the aril to about one-half of their length. 

 Kirk, Forest Flora of 'New Zealand, p. 195, tt. 98, 99. 



Phyllocladus glaucus, Carriere, Traite Conif. ed. I. 502 (1855) ; and ed. II. 707. 

 P. trichomanoides var. glauca, Parlatore, D. C. Prodr. XVI. 498. Gordon, Pinet. 

 ed. II. 195. 



N. Zeal, vernacular, Toatoa, Tanekaha. 



Phyllocladus glaucus is considered by those who have seen it in 

 its native home, to be the handsomest of all the New Zealand 

 Taxads; it has a restricted habitat in the northern part of the North 

 Island, in places ascending the mountains to nearly 3,000 feet. 

 "The wood is white, remarkably straight in grain and of great 

 strength, but as the tree occurs only in situations difficult of access, 

 it has not been utilised except for temporary purposes." 



Phyllocladus rhomboidalis, 



A tree 35 60 feet high with a trunk 1 2 feet in diameter. 

 Branches scattered or sub-verticillate, spreading or ascending, the basal 

 part bare of branchlets ; bark dark brown with shallow keels 

 decurrent from the base of each branchlet; branchlets numerous-, 

 each bearing three nine phylloclades. Phylloclades shortly stalked, 

 rhomboidal, the longer axis 1 2 inches long, the shorter 

 0'5 0'75 inch long, the larger lower ones deeply cut into oblong 

 lobes, the smaller terminal ones with the basal margin entire, and 

 the apical one toothed. Flowers monoecious, terminal on the 

 phylloclades and surrounded at the base by imbricated bracts. Fruits 

 containing two or three seeds enclosed to half their length by a 

 fleshy aril. 



Phyllocladus rhomboidalis, L. C. Richard, Synops. Conif 130, t. 3 ; and Mem. 

 sur les Conif. 23 (1826) Eudlicher, Synops. Conif. 235. Hooker til, Fl. Tasm. I. 

 359. Carriere, Traite Conif. ed. II. 706. Parlatore, D. C. Prodr. XVI. 499. 

 Gordon, Pinet. ed. II. 194. 



P. asplenifolius, Hooker til, in Loud. Journ Bot. IV. 151 (1845). 



Tasm. vernacular, Celery-topped Pine, Adventure Bay Pine. 



The type species on which the genus was founded by the excellent 

 French botanist, L. C. Richard ; it is common in the damp forests 

 of Tasmania, especially on the mountains and in the southern parts 

 of the island where it is known by the somewhat inappropriate 

 name of " Celery-topped Pine." The trunk is usually too slender to 

 afford useful timber, but it has been often used for the small masts 

 of sailing vessels. The bark is used for tanning leather. 



