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bloom, while the outward part of those on the upper side are 

 smooth, and of a glossy green. Branches rounded, and covered, 

 with a smooth, brownish bark. Branchlets arranged in two 

 rows, flat, compressed, and clothed with four rows of small, 

 imbricated leaves. Cones half an inch long, solitary, ovate, 

 obtuse, and borne erect on the points of the short branchlets. 

 Scales in two opposite pairs, woody, and with a solitary two- 

 winged seed under each scale. 



A tree from 30 to 70 feet high, and two or three feet in 

 diameter ; found on the northern island of New Zealand, in 

 forests along the river Hokianga, near the Bay of Islands, also 

 on the wooded mountains more to the north, and on the higher 

 mountains of Nelson, at an elevation of from 4000 to 6000 feet, 

 where it is called " Kawaka" by the natives. Timber hard, 

 resinous, and of a beautiful reddish colour. 



It is tolerably hardy in favourable situations in England. 



No. 4. Libocedrus tetragona, Endlicher, the Tetragonal 



Arbor-Vitse. 

 Syn. Thuja tetragona, Hooker. 

 Juniperus uvifera, Don. 

 Pinus cupressoides, Molina. 



Leaves in four rows, oval, blunt-pointed, concave, hardly 

 two lines long, and closely adpressed, keeled on the back, much 

 sharper towards the apex, and of a light green colour. Branches, 

 horizontal, and irregularly scattered along the stem ; branch- 

 lets, placed in two rows, spreading, four-sided, and completely 

 covered by the leaves. Cones solitary, ovate, erect, small, and 

 produced at the extremity of the short branchlets. Scales 

 woody, or somewhat leathery; alternate in three pairs; the 

 lower ones small, and mostly abortive, the whole of them 

 furnished with a terminal, small, incurved spine near the 

 apex. 



A magnificent evergreen tree, from just below the snow line 

 of the Andes of Patagonia, inhabiting the swampy places between 

 the mountains. It is also found in South Chili, as far as the 



