350 PODOCARPUS. 



A large evergreen tree, found at the Cape of Good Hope, 

 where the colonists call it "Geelhout" (yellow wood). 

 It is not hardy, 



No. 46. Podocarpus Totara, Don, the Totarra Pine. 



Syn. Podocarpus pungens, Van Houtte. 

 Dacrydium spicatum, Hurt. 

 Podocarpus spinulosa, Mahoy. 

 Bidwilli, Hoibrenh 



Leaves spreading in all directions, alternate, distant, linear- 

 lanceolate, pungent, rigid, and very sharp-pointed, slightly 

 tapering to the base, of a yellowish-green colour on the upper 

 surface, very pale, and glaucous below, with a single nerve, 

 very little projecting along the middle, and slightly bent round 

 the margins, from three-quarters to one inch and a half long, 

 and about one line broad. Branches slender, rounded, and 

 long ; branchlets forked, but sometimes in threes, twiggy, 

 rounded, and of a pale yellowish-green colour; male and 

 female on separate plants ; male flowers solitary, axillary, 

 without foot-stalks, cylindrical, and longer than the leaves; 

 female ones on solitary foot-stalks, with one or two flowers on 

 each, axillary, and hardly one line long, thickening into a very 

 ample, fleshy receptacle. Seeds, when young, oblong; when 

 mature, oval, and solitary, very rarely in twos on the same 

 foot-stalk. 



A tall tree, growing from eighty to ninety feet high, and 

 twenty feet in circumference, found on the northern island of 

 New Zealand, where it is called " Totarra " by the natives. 



This is one of the best timber trees in New Zealand, grow- 

 ing sometimes 120 feet high. Its timber is in great repute 

 among the colonists for its durability and freedom from the 

 ravages of insects. 



