350 PODOCABPUS. 



A large evergreen tree, found at the Cape of Good Hopej 

 where the colonists call it " Geelhout" (yellow wood). 

 It is not hardy, 



No. 46. PoDOCAEPUS TOTARA, Don, the Totarra Pine. 



Syn. Podoearpus pungens, Va/ii Houtte. 

 „ Dacrydium spicatum, Hort. 

 „ Podoearpus spinulosa, Malcoy. 

 „ „ Bidwilli, Hoihrenk. 



Leaves spreading in all directions, alternate, distant, linear- 

 lanceolate, pungent, rigid, and very sharp-pointed, slightly 

 tapering to the base, of a yellowish-green colour on the upper 

 surface, very pale, and glaucous below, with a single nerve, 

 very little projecting along the middle, and slightly bent round 

 the margins, from three-quarters to one inch and a half long, 

 and about one line broad. Branches slender, rounded, and 

 long ; branchlets forked, but sometimes in threes, twiggy, 

 roundedj and of a pale yellowish-green colour; male and 

 female on separate plants ; male flowers solitary, axillary, 

 without foot-stalks, cylindrical, and longer than the leaves; 

 female ones on solitary foot-stalks, with one or two flowers on 

 each, axillary, and hardly one line long, thickening into a very 

 ample, fleshy receptacle. Seeds, when young, oblong; when 

 mature, oval, and solitary, very rarely in twos on the same 

 foot-stalk. 



A tall tree, gi-owing from eighty to ninety feet high, and 

 twenty feet in circumference, found on the northern island of 

 New Zealand, where it is called " Totarra " by the natives. 



This is one of the best timber trees in New Zealand, grow- 

 ing sometimes 120 feet high. Its timber is in great repute 

 among the colonists for its durability and freedom from the 

 ravages of insects. 



