106 DACRYDIUM. 



very much smaller on the adult trees. Branches numerous, 

 scattered along the stem, with the lower ones spreading or bent 

 downwards, and the upper ones mostly ascending. Branchlets 

 slender, pendent, numerous, and thickly clothed with foliage ; 

 those of the adult trees being very much shorter, and covered 

 with small, scale-formed leaves, regularly imbricated. Fruit 

 ovate, bluntly four-cornered, and solitary on the ends of the 

 branchlets. 



A loftly, pyramidal tree, with a cylindrical stem, covered 

 with an ash-gray bark, slightly furrowed, and very full of 

 branches, found on the mountains of Sumatra and Pulo- 

 Penang, in the East Indies, where its native name is " Gam- 

 binur.'* 



It is very tender. 



No. 6. Dacrydium Franklinii, Hooker, Captain Franklin's 



Dacrydium, or Huon Pine. 



Syn. Dacrydium Huonese, Cunningham. 



Leaves small, scale-formed, very closely pressed, and some- 

 what spirally decussate, ovate, rhomboid, and closely imbri- 

 cated, convex, and somewhat acutely keeled on the back, with 

 the inner face concave, and acute or obtuse pointed, decurrent 

 at the base, and deep, glossy green, dotted on the outer sides 

 with a glaucous powder. Branches ascending or spreading, 

 sometimes more or less deflected towards the bottom on the 

 adult trees, lateral ones very much loaded with branchlets. 

 Branchlets very numerous, dense, long, slender, and flexible. 

 Male catkins solitary, terminal on the ends of the branchlets, 

 oval, or rounded, and from one to two lines long. Fruit small, 

 and in terminal spikes. 



A large, pyramidal tree, with spreading or pendent branches, 

 thickly clothed with spray, growing 100 feet high, and 20 feet 

 in circumference, found in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), on 

 the banks of the Huon River, and at Port Macquarrie. Tim- 

 ber excellent for naval purposes. 



It is tolerably hardy in the west of England. 







