104 DACRYDIUM. 



half long, and one line broad ; enclosed at the base by the 

 outer involucra, and produced at the points of the branchlets. 



A very elegant shrub or small tree, from 12 to 15 feet high, 

 with a dense flat head, found on the top of the Poe Mountain, 

 near Sarawak, in Borneo, at an elevation of 5000 feet. 



No. 3. Dacrydium Colensoi, Hooker, Colenso's Dacrydium. 

 Syn. Podocarpus biformis, Endlichrr. 

 Alania sp., Golenso. 



Leaves mairy-shaped on the same branch, while on others 

 they are all uniform, some densely four-rowed, regularly im- 

 bricated, ovate, rhomboid, bluntly-pointed, and one line long, 

 while others are long-linear, loosely spreading, and from three 

 to six lines long, all leathery, of a bright glossy green, and 

 strongly ribbed ; again, others are scale-formed, somewhat tri- 

 angular, obtuse, very closely arranged, regularly imbricated, 

 and densely four-rowed. Branches long, and variably dis- 

 posed, some ascending, others pendent, while the greater part 

 are spreading and more or less horizontal. Male catkins ter- 

 minal, solitary, and without foot-stalks. Fruit small, lateral, 

 leathery, and placed on a horizontal, resinous disk, in the form 

 of a cup. 



A shrub or small tree of many forms, with the branches 

 either ascending, spreading, or prostrate. 



Mr. Bidwill found it on the western part of the northern 

 island of New Zealand, at Dusky Bay, and on the mountains 

 of Tongariro, Bahuine, and Nelson, at elevations varying from 

 4000 to 6000 feet. 



No. 4. Dacrydium cupressinum, Solcmder, the Cypress-like 



Dacrydium. 



Syn. Thalamia cupressina, Sprewgd. 



Dacrydium Lobbii, Hort. 



Leaves awl-shaped, more or less four-sided, very dense, rigid, 



alternate, irregularly decussate, sometimes loosely imbricated, 



or spreading, fully adhering at the base, and decurrent; a 



