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One of the most remarkable and beautiful trees in New Zealand, conspicuous, especially when young, for its
pyramidal form, pale green colour, and very long weeping branches. Trunk 80 feet high, 4-6 in diameter. TFoodreà,
solid, heavy, excellent. From the young branches sprace-beer was manufactured by Captain Cook, which proved
an excellent remedy for scurvy. Leaves of two forms ; those on the young weeping branches patent, needle-shaped,
sharp, spreadmg, two lines long ; those on the older branches shorter, imbricated, blunter. Fruit borne on short
curved branchlets, solitary, sessüe. Seed surrounded at the base by a cup-shaped disc, which is eaten by the
natives.
2. Dacrydium Colemoi, Hook. ; frutex v. arbuscula polymorpha, babitu varia, foliis laxe v. arote imbricatis
V . uudique patentibus biformibus, aliis lineari-elongatis obtusis patulis, aliis crassis brevissimis
dense imbncatis trigonis carinatis, amentis sessilibus terminalibus solitariis, antlieris paucis obtusis obtuse
carinatis, seminibus parvis laterabbus disco carnoso iusidentibus. Eook. Ic. PI. t. 548. Podocarpus ?
biformis, Ic. PL t. 544.
Hab. Mountains of the Northern and Middle Islands. Dusky Bay, Wenzics. Tongariro and Euahine
mountains, Colenso. Mountains around Nelson, elev. 4000-6000 feet, Bidwill.
One of the most variable plants in New Zealand, which certainly contains an extraordinary proportion of
singularly Protean plants. In its largest form it attains 12 feet in height, and has long spreading prostrate branches •
other forms are recUuate or erect, prostrate or creeping. Stems and branches stout and woody, covered below with
small scale-like broad triangular coriaceous leaves. Leaves of many forms on the same branch, or uniform all
coriaceous, deep-green and polished : those of one kind Unear, blunt, spreading, -U-i inch long, with a stout midrib ;
whüe others are densely imbricated, triangular, blunt, thick, coriaceous, A line long, and give the stem a squaré
appearance. UaU catkins terminal, soUtary. sessüe, of four to six imbricating anthers, consisting of a broad blunt
ovate connectivum, and two locuU at tbe lower margins. Seeds smaU, coriaceous, lateral, axülary, seated ou a hori-
zontal cup-shaped resinous disc.
3. Dacrydium laxifoUum, Hook. fil. ; fruticulus elongatus, gracilis, prostratus, foliis parvis biformibus
alus laxe imbricatis patulis linearibus obtusis dorso convexis. aliis (plerisque) imbricatis brevissimis ovatié
obtusis obtuse cannatis, amentis terminahbus sessüibus sohtariis, antheris paucis imbricatis obtusis,
seminibus parvis terminalibus ramulisve brevissimis axillaribus disco carnoso iusidentibus. Hook. Ic. PI.
t. 815.
Hab. Mountains of the Northern and Middle Islands. Tongariro and mountains of Nelson, elev.
6000-7000 feet, Euahine range, Cbfoiso. Nat. name, “ Eimu,”
A very remarkable little species, one of the smallest Pines in the world, covering the ground in patches
5-6 feet long. Mr. Bidwill says tbe natives call it “ Eimu,” the name in common use for young plants of D
cupressinum, as also for seaweeds and plants assuming this habit, not only throughout New Zealand, but in the
Pacific Islands, whose inhabitants speak kindred tongues with the Maori (I was in error in supposing (Ic. Plant.)
that Mr. Bidwül thought this a var. of B. cupressinum, from his having attached the name of “ Eimu” to it). Stems
slender, woody, prostrate, flexible. Branches veiy slender, covered with leaves of two forms, each of them like those
of B. Colensm, but much smaUer; these two forms pass into one auother in this plant, which they do not so evi-
dently in D. Colensoi. Fruit scarlet, terminal or lateral.
Gen. V. PHYLLOCLADUS, Br.
Amenta soUtaria v. fasciculata. Antherm ut in Bacrydium. F l. ? solitarii v. in conum glomerulumve
carnosum aggregati. Ovarmm squamula cyathiformi sessile, solitarium, sæpius pedúnculo carnoso cupuli-
formi immersum. Fructus subbaccatus v. siccus, disco immersus.—Folia im plnjllodia connaia.
The Celery-leaved Pines” are natives of New Zealand, Tasmania, and the mountains of Borneo ; they form small
trees, with whorled branches, and may be recognized by the foUage. which consists of coriaceous, obovate, toothed
phyUodia, entirely resembling leaves, but whicb are really formed by tbe growing together of many of these, as may
be seen by examming seedUng plants, where the true leaves are found to be linear. In some species the flowers
grow from out of these pliyllodia, proving that they are not simple bodies, but consist in such cases of leaves and
stem combined. Inprescence aaA flowers of the some nature as in Dacrydium, except that the flowers of this are often
clustered together, and sunk in fleshy peduncles. (Name from ijwXXoj/. a leaf, and sXaSor, a branch)
1. Phyllocladus trichomanoides, Don; arborea, phyllodiis rbombeis ovatisve basi cuneatis sinuato-lobatis
irregulariter eroso-dentatisve lobulis truncatis, amentis mascnbs terminalibus fasciculatis, anthens obtusis,
semine compresso, fl. foem. phyUodiis marginalibus solitariis. Bon, in Lamb. Pm. Bach. Ccmif. t. 3.
A. Cunn. Prodr. Hook. Ic. Plant, t. 549, 550, 551. P. rUomboidalis, A. Bich. Flora.
H ab. Northern Island ; not unfrequent in woods, efc- Nat. names, “ Tanekaha"
north of the Thames, and “ Toa Toa” south of that river. Col. (Cultivated in England.)
A slender tree, 60 feet high, of small girth, with whorled branches. Wood pale, very close-grained, durable
and good. Bark used for dyeing red. PhyUodia distichous, very coriaceous, J-1 inch long, rhomboid or ovate,
toothed or lobed ; the lobes truncate. Female flmers solitary on the margins of the phyUodia.
2, Pliyllocladus alpinus, Hook. fil. ; arbuscula, phyllodiis obovatis dentatis lobulatisque lobulis erosis.
floribus foemineis iu globum carnosum connatis, semine compresso. Tab. L I II.
H ab. Mountains of the Northern and Middle Islands. Tongariro, Bidwill; Euahine mountains,
etc., Colenso; Nelson, alt. 6000 feet, Bidwill.
I have very many specimens of this plant from Mr. BidwUl and Mr. Colenso, and fear it may prove only au
alpine variety of P. trichomanoides. Mr, Bidwill, however, thinks the contrary, judging from habit and appearance,
characters I consider of little importance in tbe ease of alpine forms of variable plants. The whole shrub is smaller
and denser than the P. trichomanoides, leaves much smaUer, thicker, and more obtusely lobed. Female flowers immersed
in small fleshy capitula or cones at the bases of the phyUodia,—Platb LIII. Fig. 1, male, and 2, female
specimens—Ba(. size; 8. male and female cones gi-owing close together; 4, male cones; 5. female ditto; 6, back,
and 7, front of anther ; 8, ripe fruit ; 9, longitudinal section of the same -.—all magnifled.
C l a s s MONOCOTYLEDONES, J u s s .
N a t . O r d . LXXXIII. NAIADACEÆ, Juss.
Gen. I. TEIGLOCHIN, L.
Perianthium 6-phyllum, deciduum ; foliolis concavis, 3 iuterioribus altius insertis. Stamina 6, brevissima.
Antherce posticæ, subsessiles. Ocaria 3-6, 1-ovulata. Stylus brevis. Capsulæ 3-6, evalves ;
seminibus erectis. Br. Prodr.
Herbs growing in watery and marshy places, often near the sen, in various temperate countries. Leaves lier-
baceous, filiform or grassy ; scapes bearing slender spikes or racemes of small green flowers. Perianth of six
concave pieces, in two rows, the outer lower than the inner. Stamens three to six, with nearly sessUe anthers bursting
outwards. Ovaries tbree to six, each with one ovule and sessile plumose stigma. Capsules three to six, one-
seeded, indéhiscent, (Name from rpns, three, and yXcoxw. a point; from the three points of the fruit.)