Kink.—On a revised Arrangement of N.Z. Species of Dacrydium. 887 
; This species is the yellow silver pine of Westland, where it is highly 
-valued for its durability. It is — Sauer on the Thames Gold- 
field. 
Plate XX. Dacrydium intermedium. 
1. Sterile branch and leaves natural size. 
2. Fertile branchlet enlarged. 
3. Longitudinal en of nut enlarged. 
8. iria westlandicum. 
k, MS. ; Hook. fil., Icones Plantarum, t. 1218. 
A — tree 40-50 feet high, trunk 14-24 feet in diameter, bark 
whitish, branches slender. Leaves of seedling plants terete, of early 
branches sub-terete, or trigonous, or subulate, decurrent, erecto-patent, 
compressed, 1-4 inch long. Fruiting branchlets very slender, j—j, inch 
in diameter ; leaves rigid, broadly triangular, compressed, carinate, slightly 
imbricate, obtuse. Male catkins terminal, solitary, oblong, 35-0, inch long. 
Nuts (immature) solitary, or 1-8, ,,—,; inch long, obtuse, not compressed. 
North Island : Whangaroa— Hector! ; Great Barrier Island—J. Spring- 
all and T. Kirk (1871). 
South Island: Greymouth to Okarita (in all. sobsbdun extending 
‘northward to the mouth of the Buller and southwards to Martin Bay); 
not observed further inland than the Ahaura plain, 
In the young state this species closely resembles the omaa but the 
leaves are slightly trigonous; the minute leaves of the fruiting branches, 
and the small obtuse nuts, which are usually two in. number, distinguish the 
mature state from all other members aE: this section. The wood is white, 
dense, and extremely durable. 
My first knowledge of this plant was am dried specimens in n the young 
state received from Dr. Hector in 1869, and collected by him at Whangaroa. 
In 1871, Mr. Springall and myself collected young plants on one of the 
high ranges in the interior of the Great Barrier Island, but owing to the 
approach of night we were unable to search for trees. It was only on 
visiting the west coast of the South Island in January, 1877, that I was 
able to identify the young state of the northern plant with the present 
species, which, although long valued for the’ durability of its timber, and 
forming an article of export under the name of Westland pine, or white 
silver pine, had not come under the observation of botanists. 
The early leaves have some resemblance to those of Podocarpus daery- 
dioides, but the plant is stouter, with longer and flexuous branches. 
Plate XVIII. Dacrydium = T. Kir 
— Sterile branchlet. . Fertile branchlet, nuit: 
T. a i enlarged. . Nucule, 
