124 TAX US. 



Phyllocladus trichomanoides. 



A tall tree with a trunk 6070 feet high and 23 feet 

 in diameter cohered with smooth dark grey or blackish bark. 

 Branches sub-verticillate ; branchlets slender. Phylloclades fan-shaped < >r 

 obliquely rhomboidal, lobed or toothed. Leaves on the young plants 

 narrowly linear, crowded, about 0*4 inch long. Staminate flowers in 

 terminal clusters of five ten, shortly pedunculate. Ovuliferous flowers 

 solitary on the margins of the phylloclades, consisting of two fleshy 

 scales united in the form of a cup in which is seated the ovule. 

 Kirk, Forest Flora of New Zealand, p. 9, t. 7. 



Phyllocladus trichomanoides, Don in Lambert's Genns Finns, ed. II. Vol. II. 

 App. (1828). Endlicher, Synops. Conif. 235. Hooker til, Handb. X. Zeal. Fl. 

 260. Carriere, Traite Conif. ed. II. 705. Parlatore, D. C. Prodr. XVI. 498. 

 Gordon, Pinet. ed. II. 195. 



X. Zeal, vernacular, Tanekalia, Celery-topped Pine. 



J'ki/llodadus trichomanoides was originally discovered in Xew Zealand 

 by Banks and Solancler during Captain Cook's first voyage round 

 the globe ; it is restricted to the Auckland and Hawke's Bay 

 district in the North Island, and to Nelson and Marlborough in the 

 South Island : it is most abundant, and attains its greatest 

 development in the forests north of Waikuto. The wood is of 

 great strength, dense and heavy, and is used for piles, railway ties, 

 mine - props, and occasionally for building purposes. The bark is 

 highly prized for dyeing and tanning ; it is one of the best vegetable 

 dyes for yellow and pink, and on that account large quantities are 

 sent from New Zealand to Europe every year. 



TAXUS. 



Linnaeus, Sp. Plant. II. 1040 (1753). Endlicher, Synops. Conif. 242 (1847). Parlatore, 

 D. C. Prodr. XVI. 499 (1868). Bentliam and Hooker, Gen. Plant. III. 431 (1881). 

 Eichler in Engler and Prantl. Xat. Pfl. Fam. 112 (1887). Masters in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. XXX. 7 (1893). 



Taxus, the classical name of the Yew,* is applied to a genus of 

 trees and shrubs of very variable habit, but of slow growth and 

 long-lived, characterised by their close-grained, durable wood, their 

 dark green persistent foliage, their highly coloured berry-like fruits, 

 and especially by their flowers, the structure of which essentially 

 distinguishes the genus from every other in the Order. The floral 

 characters of the Yew may be technically formulated thus- 



Flowers dioecious, rarely monoecious, solitary and axillary, sometimes 

 terminal, f 



Staminate flowers with a short stalk or stipes bearing a globose head 

 (capitulum) of from four to eight stamens, each bearing three eight 

 anther cells attached to a peltate connective. 



* . . . picese tantum toajoque nocentes 



Interdum, aut hedene pandunt vestigia? nigiw." Virgil, Georg. II. 2">7. 



t The flowers of the Yew have been already described in page 30. 



