886 ; ` Transactions.— Botany. 
This species is most abundant on the west coast of the South Island, 
where it often forms a large proportion of the forests, but it attains its 
largest dimensions in the deep forests of the North Island. 
- It should be remarked that the recurved fertile branchlets are really 
erect, the branches on which they are borne being pendulous. Occasionally 
‘old specimens are found with erect or sub-erect branches drooping at the 
tips. 
This species is the rimu of the Maoris and the red pine of the settlers. 
2. Dacrydium intermedium, n. s. 
A handsome diccious tree 40 feet high or more; trunk, 1-2 feet in 
diameter; wood yellowish-red; leaves of young plants laxly crowded, 
terete, palani or erecto-patent, j inch long, gradually becoming closely 
imbricated, 4-farious, triangular ovate, obtuse, keeled. Male catkins short, 
ovoid, terminal. Nuts terminal, erect, solitary, elliptic, with a minute 
‘hooked apiculus and faint strie ; not compressed. 
Hab. North Island: "fabas. Great Darrier Island; Cape Colville 
Peninsula, and Thames Gold- sn to Te Aroha, 1,500-2, 500 feet ; Tonga- 
riro—Grace in Herb. Mus. Col.! . 
South Island: Dun Mountain, Nelson (collector’s name not attached.) 
Herb. Mus. Col.! West Coast: Greymouth to Okarita (and probably south- 
wards to Martin Bay.) 
In the mature state the leaves resemble those of slender forms of D. 
colensoi, to which Sir Joseph Hooker is inclined to refer it; it is, however, 
separated from that species by the terete leaves of the young state and the 
_ uncompressed nut; the branches are less fastigiate than those of D. bid- 
willii, and less spreading than those of D. colensoi. The slender branches 
of young plants are slightly flexuous, and have some resemblance to 
those of Podocarpus dacrydioides, but are much larger ; these are replaced by 
_ others similar to those of D. cupressinum, but stouter, which gradually 
diminish in size end widen into the broadly imbricating appressed state 
characteristic of the fruiting branches. 
The West Coast plant is identified in the absence of fruit ; the early leaves 
_ are more generally patent than is the case in northern specimens, the 
mature branches less strict, and the leaves less broadly keeled, differences 
which are probably due to situation alone; in both, the mature leaves are 
attached by broad bases. It was chiefly thii character which led to its 
being considered an erect tree-form of D. lawifolivm, in my account of the 
Botany of the Thames Gold Field.* | 
* Trans. N.Z. Inst., II., p. 95. 
