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168 DACRYDIUM INTERMEDIUM. 
Westland. It is common on Stewart Island, aN at oe eve 
It ascends from the sea-level to fully 4,oooft. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Dacrydium intermedium, T. Kirk, Trans. N.Z. Inst., Vol 
= Ps BOG, tin sexs 
Seat An erect usually conical dicecious tree, 4oft. to 5o0ft. high. Leaves 
i young plants laxly crowded, 3in. to 3in. long, subulate, patent or erecto- -pater 
Ni on older plants $in. to Hin. long, seem as on mature trees, spirally arrai 
"ig in four rows, closely imbricating, jin. long, triangular-ovate, obtuse, str 
iF | keeled. Male catkins terminal, Hin. long, connective broadly ovate, acum: : 
ii Female flowers terminal; ovule solitary. Fruit, a black cylin nut, 
or long, seated on a dry or feshee receptacle. 
a Moneecious specimens were observed on Stewart Island. 
by: _ Expianation or Prares LXXXVI. anp LXXXVII. (iw part). 
by LAXXVI. Dacrydium intermedium, T. Kirk. 1. Branch with male catkins. 
ie 2. Branch with dry fruits. 3. Branch of a young plant. Natural size. 1’. Mal 
yl catkin. 2'. Connective. Magnified. 
he LXXXVII. Dacrydium intermedium, T. Kirk. 3». Fruit with fleshy rec ep- 
ia tacle, natural size and magnified. 
