390 Transactions. — Botany. 



At ]3resent 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. 



6. Dacrydium colensoi. 



Hook., Icon. Plant., t. 548 ; Hook, fil., Fl. Nov. Zel., I., p. 234 : Handbook N.Z. Fl., 

 p. 952 ; Endl., Conif., p. 226 ; De Cand., Prodr., 16, pars 2, p. 495. 



Fodocarpus ( ? ) biformis, Hook., Icon. Plant., t. 544, 



A dioecious 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 quadrifariously imbricated, short, triangular, 

 or ovate oblong, stoutly keeled, obtuse, ■^V'ts' ^^^ long. " Male catkins 

 terminal, sohtary sessile ; anthers 4-6 ; connective obtuse ; nut small on a 

 horizontal resinous cup-shaped disk." 



North Island : Tongariro and Euahine Eanges — Colenso. 



South Island: Nelson mountains, 5,000-6,000 feet {'>)—Biclioill ; Can- 

 terbury, 2,000-4,000 feet— Haas«; Arthur's Pass, 3,000 feet— T.Ji:. ; Otago, 

 3,000 feet — Hector and Buchanan; descends to below 1,000 feet near 

 Dunedin— r./i. 



A round-headed tree with spreading ascenduag branches, varying greatly 

 in the size of the mature leaves and thickness of the ultimate branchlets, 

 which range from 2V~ro" '^^^"^^ in diameter ; in the more robust forms 

 detached specimens may easily be mistaken for Veronica tetragona or F. 

 lycopodioides. It differs fi'om 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 

 coUect 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 1). bid- 

 ivillii 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 Mountains, but I fear the 

 height is over-estimated by 2,000 feet. 



This species is 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. 



7. Dacdrydium kirkii. 



F. Muell. in De Cand. Prodr., vol. XVI., pars 2, p. 495 ; Hook, f.. Icon. Plant., 



t. 1,219. 



A dioecious tree, 40-80 feet high, 2-4 feet in diameter. Leaves of 



sterile branches 1-1|- inch long, J inch wide, linear, flat, sub-acute, shortly 



petioled, erecto-patent, coriaceous, shining, crowded or scattered, costa and 



veins distinct ; margins slightly cartilaginous. Leaves of fertile branches 



