880 Transactions.— Botany. 
No diagnosis of P. glauca has yet been published in the colony, although 
its discovery was announced in the first volume of our “ Transactions.’’* 
A short time previously it had been described in France from young culti- 
vated specimens supposed to have been obtained in Tasmania or raised from 
Tasmanian seed. I now give a diagnosis drawn from fresh specimens, and 
have added new descriptions of the other indigenous species, embodying all 
the information I have been able to obtain respecting them. 
i Phyllocladus glauca. 
Carriere, Coniferes, p. 502 ; Gordon, Pinetum, p. 140 ; Henk. and Hochst., Nadelhólz, 
p. 173. 
Phyllocladus trichomanoides, Don ; bB. glauca, DC., Prodromus, XVI., part ii., 
p. 498. 
A diccious tree, 20-40 feet high, trunk 12-18 inches in diameter, 
branches stow; young leaves linear, glaucous beneath, crowded; scale 
leaves deciduous, recurved; cladodia distichous on a rachis 5-12 inches 
long; one or two at the end of a branch becoming produced into true 
branches, each developing a whorl of cladodia somewhat smaller than the 
original. Lateral cladodia glaucous when young, exceedingly coriaceous, 
rhomboid, or obliquely ovate-cuneate, deeply toothed or lobed; teeth 
obtuse. Flowers: male—amenta numerous, 10-20 at the tips of a branch, 
on stout ‘radiating peduncles, including the peduncles about two inches 
long ; scales obtuse; female—amenta distichous, shortly peduncled, 4-6 
on each side of the lower part of a rachis ; ovoid, half-an-inch long ; nuts 
10-20, much compressed. 
` Hab. North Island: Maungatawhiri—R. Mair! Great Omaha (1865), 
Great Barrier Island (1867), Cape Colville, Thames Gold Field—T. K.; 
Wairoa (East)—W. J. Palmer. 
This species ascends from the sea level to 2,800 feet, attaining its 
largest dimensions in sheltered localities at the higher levels. 
This is the toa-toa of the Maoris north of the Waitemata, but accord- 
ing to Colenso, the East Coast natives south of the Thames apply that 
name to the next species. Settlers in the South Island often apply it to P. 
alpina. 
Although this species is glaucous in the young state, the specific name 
is not so appropriate as it would be to P. alpina. 
The large size of the cladodia and the many-seeded fruit at once dis- 
tinguish this fine species from its congeners; to these marked distinctive 
features may be added its diccious character and long peduncled male 
catkins, which are more numerous than in either P. trichomanoides or P. 
alpina. The female catkins are not borne on the margins of cladodia, but 
* Trans. N.Z. Inst., I., p. 149. 
