390 Transactions.—B otany. 
At present the distribution of this species is imperfectly known from 
its having been confused with D. colensoi. A resinous plant, which must 
probably be referred here, is said to be plentiful in the Massacre Bay 
district. à 
6. Dacrydium colensoi. ` 
Hook., Icon. Plant., t. 548 ; gem xA Fl. Nov. Zel., I., p. 284: Handbook N.Z. F1., 
p. 952; Endl., Conif., Sret Prodr., 16, pars 2, p, 495. 
Todak 2) biformis, Hook, x. Rd t. 544 
A dicecious tree 20-40 feet high, bark ‘whitish, trunk 1-2 feet in 
diameter ; leaves on early branches }-inch long, linear flat, obtuse, costate, 
spreading ; on upper branches eben imbricated, short, triangular, 
or ovate oblong, stoutly keeled, obtuse, =} 35-15 inch long. ‘Male catkins 
terminal, solitary sessile; anthers 4-6 ; connective obtuse; nut small on a 
horizontal resinous vdp-chapea disk." 
North Island: Tongariro and Ruahine Nun uui 
South Island; Nelson mountains, 5,000-6,000 feet (?)—Bidwill; Can- 
terbury, 2,000—4,000 feet—Haast ; Arthur's Pass, 8,000 feet — T. K. ; ; Otago, 
9,000 feet—Hector and Buchanan; descends to below 1,000 feet near 
Dunedin—T.K. 
A round- baio tree with spreading ascending branches, varying greatly 
in the size of the mature leaves and thickness of the ultimate branchlets, 
which range from j,—j, inch in diameter; in the imore robust forms 
detached specimens may easily be seats for Veronica tetragona or V, 
lycopodioides. It differs from the preceding species in the arrangement of 
the branchlets, which are crowded at the ends of the branches and resemble 
an obtuse-topped kind of corymb. Not having had the good fortune to & 
collect specimens in flower or fruit, I am unable to say if the nut is 
invariably solitary but. suspect that it is not. ,From all forms of D. bid- 
willi it is distinguished by the larger petioled linear leaves, as well as the 
greater size and peculiar habit just described. According to Bidwill it 
occurs at the altitude of 6,000 feet on the Nelson N a, but I fear the 
height is over-estimated by 2,000 feet. 
This species ig the yellow pine or tar-wood of the Otago settlers ; the 
wood is yellowish, dense, and durable, but can only be obtained in short 
lengths. 
T- dq kirkii. 
F. Muell. “in De Cand. Prodr., vol. XVI., pars 2, p. 495; Hook. f., Icon. Plant., 
A Sides ide 40-80 feet high, 2-4 feet in E MIRA Leaves of 
sterile branches 1-13 inch long, 1 inch wide, linear, flat, sub-acute, shortly 
petioled, erecto-patent, coriaceous, shining, erowded or scattered, costa and 
veins distinct ; margins alight y cartilaginous. Leaves of fertile branches 
