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solitary. Leaves scattered or with an obscurely spiral arrangement, 

 1-5 3-75 inches long, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, sessile, or 

 narrowed at the base into a very short petiole, straight or falcately 

 curved, dark lustrous green with a thickened midrib above, much 

 paler and obscurely keeled beneath. Fruits pedunculate, solitary 

 or in pairs, the peduncles axillary, one-third as long as the leaves 

 and bearing at their summit a fleshy receptacle on which is seated an 

 ellipsoid fruit. 



Podocarpus chilinus, L. C. Richard in Ann. Mus. Paris, XVI. 297 (1810); and 

 Mem. sur les Conif. 11 (1826). London, Arb. et Frat. Brit. IV. 2101 (1838). 

 Endlicher, Synops. Conif. 212 (1847). Gay, Fl. Chil. V. 402. Carriere, Traite 

 Conif. ed. II. 649. Parlatore, D. C. Prodr. XVI. 511. Gordon, Pinct. ed. 

 II. 329. Masters in Journ. R. Hort. Soc. XIV. 242. 



P. salignus, Hort. 



Podocarpus chilinus has an extensive range in the sub-alpine Andean 

 region of Chile from the province of Maule southwards to Valclivia. 

 It was discovered by Dombey, a French botanist who accompanied 

 Kuiz and Pavon during their mission to Peru and Chile (1777 1787), 

 and from Dombey's herbarium specimens it was figured and described 

 by the elder Eichard in the publications quoted above. It was 

 introduced into P>ritish gardens about the year 1849 ; it is hardy in 

 the south of England and Ireland.* 



Podocarpus dacrydioides. 



A lofty tree 80 150 feet high with a trunk 4 5 feet in 

 diameter covered with thin greyish brown bark, and usually free of 

 branches to the greater part of the height. Branches and branchlets 

 slender, the latter much and repeatedly ramified. Leaves dimorphic ; 

 on young trees linear, flat, about 0'25 inch long, bifarious with up- 

 turned tips and of a deep bronzy green on adult trees smaller, scale-like, 

 in decussate pairs, subulate, imbricated or concrescent, dark green. 

 Inflorescence dioecious ; staminate flowers small, solitary and terminal, 

 the anthers Avith a deltoid connective ; ovuliferous flowers terminal and 

 sessile, " consisting of three four rarely two five carpellary leaves bent 

 like a sickle and usually carrying a single ovule on the face. Fruit 

 a shining black nut seated on a crimson pulpy receptacle developed 

 from the carpellary leaf." 



Podocarpus dacrydioides, A. Richard, Fl. Nov. Zeal. 358, t. 39 (1832). Endlicher, 

 Synops. Conif. 223. Carriere, Traite Conif. ed. II. 678. Parlatore, D. C. 

 Prodr. XVI. 520. Hooker fil, Handb. N. Zeal. Fl. 258. Gordon, Pinet. ed. 

 II. 357. Kirk, Forest Fl. N. Zeal. 41, t. 31, 32. 



N. Zeal, vernacular, Kahikatea, White Pine. 



Podocarpus dacrydioides is distributed throughout New Zealand either 

 scattered amongst other trees or forming extensive forests in low 

 grounds by river sides or in swampy situations ; it was originally 

 discovered by Captain Cook in the great forest between the Thames 

 and Piako rivers. It is one of the most valuable timber trees of the 



* The finest specimen known to the author is at Panjerrick, near Falmouth, which 

 is upwards of 40 feet high. There is a beautiful tree of smaller dimensions at 

 Kilmacurragh, Co. Wicklow, and another at Fota Island, near Cork. 



