358 PODOCABPUS. 



colour, somewhat glaucous when young. Branches spreading, 

 or bent downwards, rarely ascending, very slender, long, and 

 scattered at irregular distances along the stem; lateral ones 

 rounded, spreading, or drooping, frequently abortive, but pro- 

 ducing numerous short ramules, full of leaves, which sometimes 

 are so plentiful as to entirely hide the branches, while at other 

 times they are very distant. Female flowers solitary, terminal, 

 and without, or on very short, foot-stalks. Eeceptacle fleshy, 

 cennected at the base, and open only on the top, which is ob- 

 tuse. Fruit inversely egg-shaped, almost drupaceous, about 

 the size of a pea, and furnished on the apex with a little 

 flexible point. 



A large tree, growing 200 feet high in swampy places, with 

 a grayish-white bark ; found on the Northern Island of New 

 Zealand. 



The aborigines of New Zealand call this tree " Kaki-Katea " 

 (Water-pine), on account of the tree only growing in marshy 

 places, or probably from its large and soft white timber being 

 principally used by them in making canoes of large dimen- 

 sions. 



The colonists call it " White Wood," and eat its little 

 succulent fruit, which is sweetish, and produced in great abun- 

 dance. 



It is quite tender. 



No. 57. PoDocakpUS USTA, Brongniart, the whitened Podo- 



carpus. 



Syn. Dacrydium ustum, Vieillard. 



Leaves in alternate pairs, scale-formed, acute-pointed, de- 

 current at the base, and somewhat remotely placed, and always 

 imbricated on the young fastigiate branchlets. Branches and 

 branchlets short, divaricate, and somewhat four-sided by the 

 imbricated, small, scale-formed leaves. Male catkins axillary 

 on the erect branchlets, solitary, and oblong-cylindrical. Fruit 

 globose, sessile, and about one line long. 



