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cells usually 4, pendulous. Female cones oblong or ovoid, terminating 
short branchlets; scales 4 or 6, decussately opposite, the lowest pair 
smallest and sterile, the second pair with 2 erect collateral ovules at the 
base of each scale, the third pair when present sterile and connate. Scales 
of the mature cones persistent, gaping, indurated, mucronate or horned 
at the back towards the tip. Seeds solitary or rarely 2 at the base of each 
fertile scale, compressed, unequally winged. 
A small genus of 9 species, with a very singular distribution, 1 being found in 
California, 2 in Chile, 2 in New Zealand, and 1 each in New Caledonia, New Guinea, 
China, and Japan. | 
Branchlets of mature trees more or less SorapEgeaed not tetragonous. 
Cones $ in. long Ae: ae a ‘ he .. IL. L. Doniana. 
Branchlets of spin lenges always tetragonous. donee a ftin.long .. 2. L. Bidwillw. 
alse 
-1, L. Doniana Endl. Syn. Conif. (1847) 43.—A tall forest-tree 30-70 ft. 
high or more, with a narrow We Sp head trunk 2-4 ft. diam.; bark 
stringy, falling off in long ribbons. Branchlets distichous ; of young trees 
vertical, much flattened and compressed, 4-4in. broad; of old trees hori- 
zontal, less compressed, but not obviously tetragonous, zh. in. broad. 
Leaves quadrifarious, the lateral larger, especially on young trees, where 
they are often tin. long, sheathing and connate at the base, spreading, 
acute ; those on the upper and lower faces of the branchlets 54-4; in. long, 
triangular, appressed to the branch. Male flowers about }in. long, hardly 
broader than the branch ; Roun Es 8-12 ; connective thin, ovate, subpeltate. 
Female cones ovoid, about 4 din. long, “woody ; scales 4, spreading, each 
with a sharp curved spine at the back. Séeds 2 to each cone—Aoak. ie 
Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 256; 7. Kirk Forest Fl. (1889) t. 82; Cheesem. Man. 
N.Z. Fl. (1906) 646. Thuja Doniana Hook. in Lond. Journ. Bot. i (1842) 
571; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 231. Dacrydium plumosum D. Don in 
Lamb. Pin. ed ii, App. 143; A. Cunn. Precur. (1836) n. 330. 
NortH Istanp: In forests from Mangonui southwards to Hawke’s Bay and 
Taranaki, but often rare and local. SovurH Is~tanp: Between Collingwood and West 
Wanganui, H. J. Matthews ex Cockayne. Sea-level to 2000 ft. Kawaka ; New 
Zealand Arbor-vitae. 
Wood dark-red, beautifully grained, said to be durable, but on account of its 
scarcity little used. Very young seedlings have narrow linear-subulate leaves spreading 
on all sides, but these soon pass into the quadrifarious stage. 
2. L. Bidwillii Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 257.— Very similar to 
L. Donana, but usually smaller, seldom more than 50 ft. high, with a 
trunk 14 -3 tt. diam., in subalpine or cool peaty localities often reduced 
to a fastigiate bush or small tree 10-20 tt. high. Branchlets of young 
trees closely resembling those of L. Doniana, but rather narrower; of 
mature trees tetragonous, ~;-;, in. diam., densely clothed with almost 
uniform triangular acute closely appressed leaves. Female cones like those 
of LZ. Doniana, but smaller, 4-4 in. long. —T. Kirk Forest Fl. (1889) t. 83 ; 
Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 647. 
NortuH AND Soutu Istanps: From Te Aroha Mountain and Mount Egmont south- 
wards to Foveaux Strait, not uncommon in hilly or mountain forests. 800-4000 ft. 
Pahautea ; Cedar. | 
Often confounded with the previous species, but the obviously tetragonous 
branchlets of the mature tree, with almost uniform leaves, are characteristic and 
readily distinguish it. Wood soft, red, straight in the grain, easily split, and 
apparently of great durability, but of low specific gravity and somewhat brittle. 
