Krrx.— On a revised Arrangement of N.Z. Species of Dacrydium. — 885 
Key ro THE reces. 
A. Leaves of young plants, terete, spreading, passing into the mature 
imbrieating state by gradual transitions. Nuts solitary (except in D. 
westlandicum), not compressed. 
1. Branches pendulous, mature leaves imbricating all round. 
D. cupressinum. 
2. Branches erect, mature leaves triangular, 4-fariously imbricating. 
D. intermedium. 
8. Branches erect, dic cious ; nuts 1-3. D. westlandicum. 
4. Branches prostrate, struggling, monecious. D. laxifolium. 
B. Leaves of young plants linear, flat, abruptly changing into the mature 
state; nuts 1-5, compressed. 
5. Erect, recumbent, or prostrate, leaves of young plants sessile; nuts 
- idwillii. 
6. Erect, young leaves shortly petioled; nuts 1-2; mature leaves 
4-fariously imbricating. D. colensoi. 
7. Erect, young leaves shortly petioled ; nuts 1-5; mature leaves sub- 
cylindrieal. D. kirkii. 
1. Dacrydium cupressinum., 
Solander in Forst. Plantis. Escul., p. 80: Prodr., p. 92; Don in Lamb. Pin., edit. 
1, p. 93, t. 41; Rich., Conif., p. 16, t. 2, f. 3; A. Rich., Fl. Nov. Zel., p. 361; 
A. Cunn., Prodr. in Ann. Nat. Hist., L, p. 214; Endl., Con., p. 225; Hook. f., 
Flora of New Zeal., L, p.233: Handbook of N.Z. Fl., p. 258; Carr., Conif. 
p. 486; De Candolle, Prodr., XVI., pars 2, p. 494. 
Thalamia cupressina, Spreng., Syst. Veg., 3, p. 890. 
A diccious tree 60-80 feet high or more, trunk 8-5 feet in diameter, 
bark scaling, branches pendulous, pale green ; leaves of young plants terete, 
lax, ascending, on older branches shorter, trigonous decurrent, imbricating 
all round, 1 inch long; on mature branches shorter, subulate, curved, 
densely imbricating, 44 inch long; male catkins not seen; nuts on the 
tips of curved branchlets, solitary, ovoid, } inch long, not compressed; 
involucral cups rarely fleshy. 
Hab. Throughout New Zealand, ascending to 2,000 feet. 
A handsome tree, affording valuable although not durable timber. 
Young trees up to 25 feet high, when not too crowded, form objects of 
exquisite beauty. Their pyramidal or conical habit, and their long slender 
pendulous pale green branches, present an aspect totally different from that 
of any other native tree. In old specimens the pyramidal habit has dis- 
appeared, the branches are spreading, the pendulous branchlets short, and 
the leaves more closely imbricated, so that although the aspect is still 
unique in the New Zealand forest, much of the elegance and grace of the 
early state is lost. xl 
