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, hut it attains its 

 largest dimensions in the deep forests of the North Island. 



It should he remarked that the recurved fertile hranchlets 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. Daoydium intermedium, n. s. 



A handsome dioecious tree 40 feet high or more ; trunk, 1-2 feet in 

 diameter ; wood yellowish-red ; leaves of young plants laxly crowded, 

 terete, patent or erecto-patent, \ 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 strife ; not compressed. 



Hah. North Island : Hirakimata, Great Barrier Island ; Cape Colville 

 Peninsula, and Thames Gold-field 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. 

 colmsoi, 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 fiexuous, 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 and 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 this character which led to its 

 being considered an erect tree-form of D, laxifolium, in my account of the 

 Botany of the Thames Gold Field.* 



* Trans. N.Z. Inst., n., p. 95. 



