I am in possession of several specimens of this tree, which, however, are without either catkins or fruit.
These are only known to me from a drawing taken during the stay of Sir Joseph Banks and Dr. Solander in
New Zealand in the first voyage of Captain Cook. This as well as the following species I have merely referred
to Dacrydium from their appearing to me to be more akin to it, than to any of the other Coniferous genera
hitherto published. I am well aware they cannot, with propriety, be associated with the Dacrydium Cupressinum
of Solander, whose habit is totally different. I have no doubt that, on future examination, they will be
found to constitute a distinct genus.
DACRYDIUM DISTICHUM.
Dacrydium distichum, foliis distichis linearibus mucronulatis glauco-viridibus patulis margine planis basi
mqualibus.
Podocarpus taxifolia. Kunth in Nov. Gen. et Sp. Plant. I I . p. 2. t. 97 ?
Habitat in Peruviae Andibus. Pavon.
Arbor. . . . . Rami teretes, de lapsu foliorum tuberculosi, cortice gryseo vestiti. Folia sparsa, disticha, line-
aria, mucronulata, recta, patula, glauco-viridia, subtüs pallidiora, vix polhcem longa, semilineam lata
margine plana, basi aequalia, brevissimd stipitata ad medium nervo validiori lineata. Ccetera desiderantur.