Krrx.—On a revised Arrangement of N.Z. Species of Dacrydium. — 889 
fruiting branches 4-farious, imbricated, coriaceous, triangular, keeled, 
obtuse. Male catkins slender, terminal solitary, anthers two, connective, 
obtuse. Nuts solitary or in twos, striate, compressed, keeled, obtuse ; 
involucral cup sometimes resinous. 
a. érecta.—Erect, main branches pyramidal or conical; linear flat 
leaves obscurely costate, fruiting branchlets very slender; male catkins 
produced in profusion. 
f. reclinata.—Prostrate or reclinate, linear leaves with evident costa; 
fruiting branches stouter. 
North Island: I have no certain knowledge of the occurrence of either 
form in this island, although there is reason to believe that var. a. occurs 
at Tongariro, and is probably not uncommon on the Ruahine and other 
mountains. 
South Island: a. Nelson—Bidwill in Herb. Hook! Roto Iti 2,000 feet, 
Square Town—T7.K.; Canterbury— Sinclair and Haast; between Grey- 
mouth and Okarita, Westland-—T. K.; Dusky Bay, Otago—Hector in Herb. 
Hook! jf. Dun Mountain, Nelson: Hab. Mus. Col. (but without col- 
lector's name); flats by the Thomas River, Upper Waimakiriri, Bealey Gorge, 
and Lake Misery, 2,000-8,000 feet —J. D. Enys and T. Kirk; West Coast 
of Otago— Hector. 
This species is distinguished from its allies by its dwarf stature and 
sessile linear leaves, which are attached by broad bases. It ined con- 
siderably in habit and in the size of the quadrifarious leaves. 
In var. a, the linear flat leaves, so far as my observations extend, are 
never found on plants more than six inches high; when dry, they are of a 
pale brown colour ; those of var. 8. of a reddish-black. 
A number of anoi specimens of var. 8. occur on flats by the 
Thomas river, where they form hemispherical clumps -2-5 feet high and 
10-20 feet in diameter; there are also densely crowded rings of young 
plants with open centres of similar diameter. In the oldest specimens the 
irunk is found to branch at the surface of the ground, the main branches 
being prostrate, from 5-10 feet in length and 5-6 inches in diameter, 
rooting at their extremities. When the trunk is injured, or when'it decays, 
the branches gradually die away, leaving their rooted tips to form a ring 
of young plants, but usually erect secondary branches are given off along 
their entire length, and a compact clump is formed. In this form the 
linear leaves are seldom seen except on seedlings, rarely small branches 
bearing leaves of the early type are given off from bare places in the main 
arms. Plants of similar habit were observed in the Waimakariri, but not 
nearly so well developed, owing to the erowded vegetation by which they 
were surrounded. The ordinary form of this variety has reclinate or 
spreading branches. 
