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Gen. DACRYDIUM. Solander. 



Flowers, dioecious, or male and female on separate plants. 



Fruit, fleshy and erect. 



Seeds, with a hard, bony shell, resting in a short, disk-formed, 

 fleshy integument. 



Leaves, needle-shaped or scale-formed, and opposite. 



Name, derived from 8atcpv (dakru), a tear, the gummy exu- 

 dation of the trees. 



Trees and shrubs, natives of Tasmania, New Zealand, the 

 East Indies, and New Caledonia. 



No. 1. Dacrydium araucarioides, Brongniart, the Araucaria- 



like Dacrydium. 



Syn. Arthrotaxus araucarioides, Brongniart. 

 Dacrydium arthrotaxoides, Carriere. 



Leaves small, spirally disposed, imbricate, erectly incurved, 

 adnate at the base, free on the upper part, oblong, or ovate- 

 oblong, rounded at the points, convex and keeled on the back, 

 and about one-sixth of an inch long, and half a line wide. 



A very branching shrub, with erect, short, thick branches, 

 and very numerous, short, cylindrical branchlets, from one- 

 sixth to a quarter of an inch in diameter, thickly covered with 

 small, incurved, blunt-pointed, oval-oblong leaves. 



It is a very handsome and compact shrub, with the aspect 

 of an Arthrotaxis, found on the Arid Mountains, near Mont 

 Dore, and those of Kanale, in New Caledonia. 



No. 2. Dacrydium Beccarii, Parlatore, Mr. Beccari's 



Dacrydium. 

 Leaves densely disposed in six rows, erectly-spreading, 

 curved, long-linear, soft and bristle-pointed, or acutely spines- 

 cent, and all of a size and shape. Branches and branchlets 

 dense, and thickly covered with leaves. Fruit solitary, sessile, 

 somewhat orbicular or oval, fleshy, smooth, and one line and a 



