Podocarpus.| TAXACEAE. 113 
5. P. ferrugineus D. Don in Lamb. Gen. Pinet. ed. 1 (1832) 189.— 
A tall forest-tree 50-80 ft. high with a rather narrow round-topped head ; 
trunk 1-3 ft. diam.; bark greyish-brown or almost black, scaling off in 
large flakes. Leaves distichous, close-set, spreading, $-¢in. long, linear, 
falcate, acute or subacute, l-nerved, margins recurved, red-brown when 
dry; those of young plants longer, narrower, and more acute. Flowers 
dioecious. Males axillary, solitary, sessile, cylindric, equalling or rather 
longer than the leaves. Anthers numerous, closely packed; connective 
obtuse. Female flowers solitary or very rarely geminate at the top of a 
curved peduncle clothed with minute scale-like bracts. Fruit large, broadly 
oblong, drupaceous, 3 in. long, reddish-purple with a glaucous bloom, top 
of the peduncle not enlarged nor succulent—A. Cunn. Precur. (1836) 
n. 327; Raoul Choix (1846) 41; Hook. Ic. Plant. (1848) t. 543; Hook. jf. Fl. 
Nov. Zel. i (1853) 232; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 257;“T. Kirk Forest 
Fl. (1889) t. 84; Pilger in Pflanzenr. iv, 5 (1903) 66; (Cheesem. Man. N.Z. 
Fl. (1906) 650. bat Ey 
NortH AnD Sours Istanps, Stewart Istanp: Abundant in forests throughout. 
Sea-level to 3000 ft. Miro; Toromiro ; Black-pine. 
Wood strong, hard and compact, straight-grained, not durable in exposed situations. 
The fleshy drupes form the chief food of the wood-pigeon during the winter months. 
6. P. spicatus R. Br. in Benn. Pl. Jav. Rar. (1838) 40.—A tall round- 
headed forest-tree 40-80 ft. high; branches numerous, crowded, erect ; 
trunk 2-4 ft. diam.; bark black or bluish-black, scaling off in large flakes. 
Young plants with long slender flexuous and pendulous branches, clothed 
towards the tips with reddish-brown leaves. Leaves of mature plants 
distichous, 4—4 in. long, linear, straight or slightly falcate, obtuse or apiculate, 
coriaceous, green above, glaucous beneath. Flowers dioecious. Males 
numerous, 4-4 in. long, linear, obtuse, horizontal, arranged in axillary 
spikes. Anthers closely packed ; connective ovate, acute. Female flowers 
in 3-8-flowered spikes. Fruit black or nearly so, globose, succulent, 4-4 in. 
diam.; fleshy receptacle wanting—AHook. Ic. Plant. (1848) t. 5438; Raoul 
Choix (1846) 41; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 232; Handb. N.Z. FI. 
(1864) 258; 7. Kirk Forest Fl. (1889) t. 4, 5; Pilger in Pflanzenr. iv, 5 
(1903) 65; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 650. P. matai Lamb. ex Hook. f. 
Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 741. Dacrydium taxifolium Banks and Soland. ex 
Lamb. Pin. ed. 2 (1824) 119. D. Mai A. Cunn. Precur. (1836) n. 329. 
Prumnopitys spicata Kent in Veitch Man. Con. ed. 2 (1900) 157. 
NortTH AND SoutH IsLaANDs, STEWART IsLAND: Not uncommon in forests from 
the North Cape southwards. Sea-level to 2000 ft. Mata; Mai; Black-pine. 
A very distinct species, at once recognized by the spicate flowers and globose fruit. 
Wood brownish, hard, heavy, close-grained, of great strength and durability. This 
and the preceding differ from the remaining New Zealand species in wanting the succulent 
receptacle to the fruit. 
7. P. daerydioides A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. (1832) 358, t. 39.—A lofty 
tree 80-100 ft. or 120 ft. high, in swampy localities often growing gregariously 
and torming dense forests ; trunk 2-5 ft. diam. Leaves of two forms: those 
of young trees distichous, }-+1n. long, linear, faleate, upturned and acumi- 
nate at the tip, decurrent at the base, flat, nerveless; of mature trees 
inserted all round the branch and appressed to it, imbricated, z'z-+ in. long, 
subulate-lanceolate, acuminate, keeled. Flowers dioecious. Males solitary, 
terminal, {-}in. long; anthers crowded ; connective ovate, acute. Female 
flowers minute, solitary, terminating the branchlets; peduncle and bracts 
