Dacri/dium.'] 
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branches, rigid, 3-gonous, decurrent, subulate, curved, ■£- in. long, keeled ; on 
old much smaller, more closely imbricated, xV - to bi. long. Nuts ovoid, i 
in. long, on the curved tips of the branchlets.— Kichard, Conif. 827. t. 2. 
Throughout the Northern and Middle Islands, abundant, Banks and Solander, etc. 
“ Red Pine” of Otago colonists. Spruce beer was made of the young branches by Captain 
Cook ; the wood is excellent, the fleshy cup of the nut eatable. 
2. 13. Colensoi, Hook. ; — FI. N. Z. i. 234. A tree, 12-40 ft. high, 
very variable in habit ; bark whitish or pale-brown with white patches ; wood 
light, yellowish ; branches stout, woody. Leaves of various forms, some 
linear and spreading, \ in. long, obtuse, with stout costa, others small, 
densely 4-fariously imbricated, triangular, keeled, coriaceous, xV~iV bn long. 
Male catkins terminal, solitary, sessile ; anthers 4-6 ; connective obtuse. 
Nut small, on a horizontal resinous cup-shaped disk. — Hook. Ic. PI. t. 548 ; 
Podocarpus (?) Inform is, Hook. Tc. PI. t. 544. 
Northern Island : Tongariro and Ruahiue range, Colenso. Middle Island : Nelson 
mountains, alt. 4-6000 ft., Bidwill ; alps of Canterbury, alt. 2-4000 ft., Sinclair and 
Haast ; Otago, alt. 3000 ft., Hector and Buchanan. 
3. D. laxifolinm, Hook. /., FI. N. Z. i. 234. A small, weak, strag- 
gling, prostrate shrub; branches trailing, 6-12 in. long, flexible. Leaves as 
in 1). Colensoi, but much smaller, linear ones spreading, -jV-xV l°ng, im- 
bricating ones very broadly ovate or trapeziform, oblong, keeled, Jj in. long. 
Nuts small, erect, in red fleshy cups. — Hook. Ic. PI. t. 825. 
Northern Island: Tongariro, Bidwill; Ruahine range, Colenso. Middle Island: 
Nelson mountains, alt. 5000-6000 ft., Bidwill ; Black Hills, alt. 4000 ft., Haast ; Otago, 
Hector and Buchanan. Perhaps a small form of D. Colensoi. 
5. PHYLLOCLADTTS, Br. 
Trees with whorled branches. Leaves of two forms, some minute and scale- 
like, others linear, seen only in young plants, but which in older are connate into 
flat fan-shaped or ovate coriaceous organs (phyllcdes) resembling simple leaves, 
which bear the inflorescence on their edges. — Inflorescence monoecious ; male 
and female close together. Male as in Dacrydium. Female a short rachis with 
a few scales, each bearing a solitary, sessile, erect ovule ; girt at the base with 
a cup-shaped disk. Nut solitary, erect, girt by the fleshy disk and fleshy con- 
nate scales. 
A small genus, natives of the mountains of Borneo, of Tasmania and New Zealand. 
Flowers on the margins of the phyllodes 1. P. trichomanoides. 
Flowers at the base of the phyllodes 2. P. alpinus. 
1. P. trichomanoides, Don ;—Fl. N. Z. i. 235. A slender tree, 60 
ft. high ; wood pale, close-grained. Phyllodes distichous, with scales (rudi- 
mentary leaves) at their base, very coriaceous, -|-1 in. long, obliquely rhom- 
boid cuneate or ovate, simple or pmnatifidly lobed ; lobes truncate, erose ; veins 
radiating from one central one outwards. Nuts compressed, solitary, on the 
margins of the phyllodes. — Pfook. Ic. PI. t. 549, 550, 551 ; P.r/iomboidalis, 
A. Eich. Flora. 
Northern Island : not rare in forests. Banks and Solander , etc. Bark used for dye- 
ing red. Wood excellent, white, used for planks and spars. 
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