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5. D. intermedium 7. Kirk in Trans. WZ. Inst. x (1878) 386, t. 20.— 
A small tree 20-40 ft. high or more; branches spreading; trunk 1-2 it. 
diam., rarely more; bark brownish-grey. Leaves of very young plants 
lax, spreading, 4-3 in. long, narrow linear-subulate, acute, curved, terete ; 
gradually passing into the leaves of young trees, which are closer-set, 
squarrose or erecto-patent, $-}in. long, broadly subulate, trigonous, acute. 
These again pass by imperceptible transitions into those of mature trees, 
which are densely quadrifariously imbricate and appressed to the branch, 
,-+, in. long, ovate-triangular or rhomboid, obtuse, keeled, very thick 
and coriaceous. Flowers dioecious or rarely monoecious. Males usually 
abundantly produced, solitary, terminal, sessile, about +in. long; anthers 
numerous ; connective broadly triangular, acute. Female flowers solitary 
at the tips of the branchlets. Nut oblong, obtuse or apiculate, faintly 
striate, not compressed, 4-4 in. long, enclosed at the base in a short cup- 
shaped aril.—TZ. Kirk Forest Fl. (1889) t. 86; Pzlger in Pflanzenr. iv, 5 
(1903) 51; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 655; Ill. N.Z. #1. (i914) t. 188. 
Nortu Isuanpn: Between the Bay of Islands and Whangarei, Rk. Mair! Great 
Barrier Island, 7. Kirk! from Cape Colville to the Thames goldfields and Te Aroha, 
7’. Kirk! Adams! T. F. C.; from Lake Taupo to the Ruahine Mountains and the 
Tararua Range, Colenso! T. F. C., Tryon! R. Mair! Cockayne! A. Hamilton! 
B.C. Aston. Sours Istanp, Stewart Istanp: Not uncommon in mountain forests, 
chiefly on the western side of the island. Sea-level to 4000 it. Mountain-pine ; 
Yellow Silver-pine. 
Wood reddish-yellow, highly resinous and very inflammable, of great strength and 
durability ; largely used in Westland (together with D. Colenso) for railway sleepers, 
telegraph-poles, &e. 
6. D. Colensoi Hook. Ic. Plant. (1843) t. 548 (not of Hook. f.)—A small 
tree 20-40 ft. high or more, very similar in mode of growth to D. inter- 
medium, but rather taller and more conical, with a straighter and cleaner 
trunk; branchlets more slender, often flexuous, .,-,; in. diam. Leaves 
of very young plants lax, spreading, 4-3 in. long, narrow linear-subulate, 
terete, decurrent at the base; gradually passing into the leaves of young 
trees, which are more closely set, $-4in. long, lanceolate or narrow- 
triangular, acute, falcate, flat, decurrent at the base, often more or less 
spreading in one plane, giving the branchlets a distichous appearance. 
These pass by insensible gradations into those of mature trees, which are 
small and scale-like, densely quadrifariously imbricate and appressed 
to the branch, 4-4, in. long, rhomboid, obtuse or subacute, thick and 
coriaceous, keeled, apex often incurved. Flowers dioecious. Males soli- 
tary, terminal, sessile, 3-3 in. long; anthers numerous; connective broad, 
triangular, acute. Female flowers at the tips of the branchlets. Nuts 
1 or 2, oblong, obtuse, not compressed, about 5 in. long, enclosed for 4 
of their length or more in a lax cup-shaped arl.—Pulger in Pflanzenr. iv, 5 
(1903) 51; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 655. D. Westlandicum 7’. Kirk in 
Trans. N.Z. Inst. x (1878) 387, t. 18; Forest Fl. (1889) t. 85; Hook. f. 
Ic. Plant. (1877) t. 1218. 
Nortu Istanp: Between Mangonuiand Kaitaia, H. Carse! Waipoua Forest, Cock- 
ayne; Whangaroa, Hector! between the Bay of Islands and Whangarei, Colenso ; 
Great Barrier Island, 7. Kirk! Waimarino Forest, 7. Kirk, T. F. C.; forests round 
the base of Ruapehu and adjoining mountains, 7. F. C., H. Phillips Turner, Cockayne. 
South Istanp: Not uncommon along the West Coast from Collingwood to Martin’s 
Bay, 7’. Kirk! Spencer! W.fownson! J. W. Rrame! Helms! &c. Sea-level to 3000 ft. 
Silver-pine. 
