CLXV. CONIFERS. 
279 
Dacrydium^ 
(I) D. elatum Wall. Cal. 6045; in Hook. toU. Journ.BoL 
ii. 144, t.2; Bl. Rumphia, iii. 221, t. 172c, fig. 2; Hook. fil. t.B.l. 
V. 648; Ridl. Journ. Roy. . 4 s. Soc. S. Br. 60, p. 55 - . , 
A big tree 30 to 80 ft. tall and 2 to 3 ft. through. Leaves of 
two kinds; those on young trees and on shoots of older ones acicular 
Fig. 227.—Dacrydium elatum. 
angled and appressed to the stem, *4 m. long; those on adult trees 
and on fertile branches lanceolate acute imbricate scales, -04 in. 
long Male cones on short branches terminal, cyhndnc, yellowish 
Uln -16 in. long, scales ovate. Female flowers vey smdl, ter¬ 
minal, on branch ends; ovule minute, ovoid. Seed bnght red, 
subglobose. Hab. Common in forests or woods at about 2000 ft. 
