Krnk.—On a revised Arrangement of N.Z. Species of Dacrydium. 3891 
sub-cylindrical, closely imbricated, broadly rhomboidal, carinate, obtuse, 
with a membranous margin on the upper edge. Male catkins broadly 
ovate, $ inch long, terminal, solitary. Female terminal, involucral scales 
apiculate. Nuts 2-5 compressed, oval, obtuse, furrowed. 
North Island: Whangaroa—Hector, T. K.; Cape Brett—Colenso ; 
Whangarei—R. Mair! ; Hokianga, Upper Wairoa, and Great Barrier 
Island—T. Kirk; Titirangi—T. F. Cheeseman. 
A noble species, nearest to D. colensoi, but differing in the pyramidal 
or conical habit, in the large size of the lower leaves, the sub- cylindrical 
branches and aggregated nuts. The lower branches, sometimes to the 
height of 40 feet, are clothed with large linear leaves, giving the tree the 
appearance of a Picea, which is inereased by its habit of growth. The 
lower branches are spreading, the upper fastigiate, and repeatedly dichoto- 
mously branched, with the branchlets forming semi-flabellate masses at 
the extremities. As in D. bidwillii and D. colensoi, the change from the 
spreading linear leaf state to the mature imbricated condition is most 
abrupt ; in some specimens the tips of the lower branches exhibit appressed 
imbricated leaves, while the portions nearest the trunk are covered with 
large linear leaves, the intermixture of dimorphic foliage without inter- 
mediate forms presenting a singular and attractive appearance. The nuts 
are produced in greater abundance than those of any other New Zealand 
species, and often have their receptacles lined with a singular orange- 
coloured alveola. The nuts destitute of this lining are usually of less size. 
The petioles of the flat linear leaves have a curious half twist. 
This species is the manoao of the northern natives; its timber is of a 
reddish colour and of extreme durability. 
I first collected this handsome species on the Great Barrier Island in 
1867, and subsequently, under Dr. Hector’s instruction, examined the 
Whangaroa habitat where he had previously discovered it. In papers on 
Northern Plants, and on the Botany of the Gréat Barrier Island, published 
in the first volume of ** Transactions of the N. Z. Institute,"* I expressed a 
decided opinion as to its specific distinetness, but at that time I had not 
seen D. colensoi, and in deference to the opinion of Dr. Hector and Mr. 
Buchanan, who considered it a lowland form of that species, I refrained 
from giving a formal description. It was, however, published by the late 
Professor Parlatore the following year, under its present name in De 
Candolle’s ‘*Prodromus.’’ It is, perhaps, the most strongly marked of all 
the New Zealand species. ` 
Plate XIX. Dacrydium kirkii. 
1. Sterile branch and leaves. 3. Female catkin enlarged. 
2. Fertile branch enlarged. 4. Nuts enlarged. 
* Vol. I, pp. 141, 148. 
