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larger branchlets are needle or awl-sliaped, orscale-formed, and 

 disposed all round, somewhat depressed, and, like the others, 

 of a brownish tint. Rib very prominent on the upper part, but 

 very slightly so on the under one, and of a rusty- brown colour, 

 tapering to a fine acute point, sometimes, but very rarely, to an 

 obtuse one. Branches spreading, frequently alternate, lateral 

 ones and branchlets two-rowed, slender, spreading, horizontal, 

 or bent downwards, and covered with a reddish-brown bark. 

 Male catkins cylindrical, or oblong, axillary, and solitary; 

 female flower-spikes one-flowered, axillary, or erect on the 

 ends of the branchlets, with numerous bracteas. Fruit oval 

 or globular, about the size of a hazel-nut, soft, and of a fine 

 red colour, and when ripe covered with a glaucous powder, and 

 with the odour of turpentine. 



A tree from forty to sixty feet high, and three feet in 

 diameter, found on the northern island of New Zealand, where 

 it is called Miro, or Mairo, by the New Zealanders. Timber 

 durable, and of a fine red tint. 



It is not hardy. 



No. 50. PoDOCAEPUS Lawkencii, Hooker, Lawrence's Podo- 



carpus. 



Syn. Podocarpus Alpina Lawrencii, Parlatore. 



Leaves somewhat in two rows, spreading, linear, narrow, 

 and tapering to both ends, of a pale-green colour above, 

 glaucous below, and furnished with a very sharp, rigid point. 

 Branches slender. Flowers and fruit unknown. 



A smaU tree, found by Gunn, in Tasmania, of which little 

 further is known. 



No. 51. PoDOCAEPUS NIVALIS, HooJcer, the Snowy Podocarpus. 



Leaves oblong, or elliptic, obtuse, recurved, and spreading, 



tapering to the base and apex, very closely placed, thick on the 



edges, sessile, or on very short foot-stalks, and with a single 



nerve along the middle of the leaf, scarcely visible or almost 



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