196 PHYLLOCLADUS GDAUGA, 
in a fan-shaped manner. The male and female flowers are produced on different 
trees. The male catkins are crowded at the tips of the branches, and iam oO 
straight stout foot-stalks, each springing from the axil of a ricgnOeee 
including the pedicels, they are from Iin. to 2in, long. The female cones a 
precio on the terminal cladodes, usually three to six on each side, race 
the place of the lower lateral cladodes, and carrying from ten to twenty ovules, 
each embedded in a coriaceous or fleshy cup, and arranged in a spiral manner _ 
In fruit the cone becomes woody, and attains the size of a small hazel-nut, t 
nuts projecting beyond the outer surface for one-half their length. 
PROPERTIES AND UsEs. 
The wood of the teatoa is white, remarkably straight in the grain, and, like ~ 
that of the tanekaha, of great seenee, toughness, Aa elasticity. As it is only. 
found in situations iti cult of access, it hes not been utilised except for tem- 
potary purposes, and nothing is Rison as to its durability. In all probability ~ 
the bark and phyllodes would prove of equal value with those of the tanekaha 
for tanning purposes. 
Phyllocladus glauca is easily cultivated. The fan-shaped arrangement of the 
veins of the cladodes is similar to that of Salisburia adiantoides, and its habit is 
at once striking and beautiful. 
DISTRIBUTION OF THE GENUS. 
See under Phyllocladus trichomanoides, p. 9, ante. 
DIsTRIBUTION OF THE SPECIES. 
Phyllocladus glauca is endemic in New Zealand, and appears to be confined - 
to the Auckland District. It attains its northern limit between Mongonui and 
Ahipara, and occurs freely in many parts of the Whangape and Hokianga dis- 
tricts; in the Kauaeoruruwahine, Omahuta, and Waikorapupu forests; more © 
panna: at Maungatawhiri and other places in the Whangarei district; at 
Great Omaha, Tinea, Wairoa East, the Great Barrier Tetaneh Cape Caivites 
Peninsula, and the Thames Goldfield to Te Aroha; and appears to find its 
southern limit on the Patetere plateau. 
It ascends from the sea-level to nearly 3,0ooft. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Phyllocladus glauca, Carriére. 
Carriére, ‘‘ Coniféres,’’ p. 502. 
P. trichomanoides, Don. Var. B, glauca. . 
Parlatore, in De Candolle’s ‘‘ Prodromus,’’ Vol. xv1., part iis 
p. 498. 7 
A dicecious tree, 2oft. to 4oft. high; trunk, 12in. to r8in. in diameter; 
branches stout; true leaves on young plant linear, membranous, scat- 
tered, obtuse or acute; scale-leaves similar but broader, recurved. clay 
distichous on a oie. sin. to 12in. long; one or two rhachites at the end ¢ 
branch becoming produced into. new hianches. each spe a whorls 
rhachites ; “edad glaucous when young, very coriaceous, #in. to ain. lo ng, 
rhomboid or obliquely ovate, cuneate, narrowed into a iow stalk, lobed r 
toothed; teeth obtuse. Male catkins, ten to twenty, on rather stout pedun ( 
aparced) at the tips of the branchlets, pecumelee equalling the catkins or lon 
with one or two minute bracts; connective broadly oblong. Petals 
Hy 
distichous, shortly OS sa ‘ean to six on each side of the lower f ee the 
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