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Podocarpus.] 258; Kirk, Forest Fl. t. 4, 5; Pilger, Pflanzenreich, iv. 5, 65. P. Matai, ''Lamb, ex Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 741. Dacrydium taxifolium, ''Banks and Soland. ex Lamb. Pin.'' ed. ii. 119. D. Mai, ''A. Cunn. Precur.'' n. 329. Prumnopitys spicata, ''Kent in Veitch Man. Conif.'' ed. ii. 157.

7. P. dacrydioides, ''A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel.'' 358, t. 39.—A lofty tree 80–100 ft. or 120 ft. high, in swampy locallties often growing gregariously and forming dense forests; trunk 2–5 ft. diam. Leaves of two forms: those of young trees distichous, ⅙–¼ in. long, linear, falcate, upturned and acuminate at the tip, decurrent at the base, flat, nerveless; of mature trees inserted all round the branch and appressed to it, imbricated, $1⁄12$–$1⁄8$ in. long, subulate-lanceolate, acuminate, keeled. Flowers diœcious. Males solitary, terminal, ⅙–¼ in. long; anthers crowded; connective ovate, acute. Female flowers minute, solitary, terminating the branchlets; peduncle and bracts swollen. Fruit a black ovoid nut about ⅙ in. long, seated on the greatly enlarged bright-red succulent peduncle.—Raoul, Choix, 41; ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 233; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 258; Kirk, Forest Fl. t. 31, 32; Pilger, Pflanzenreich,'' iv. 5, 57. P. thuyoides, ''R. Br. in Benn. Pl. Jav. Bar.'' 41. Dacrydium excelsum, ''D. Don. in Lamb. Pin.'' ed. ii. App. D. ferrugineum, ''Van Houtte ex Gord. Pin.'' 590. D. thuyoides, ''Banks and Sol. ex Carr. Conif.'' 479.

Trees or shrubs. Leaves usually dimorphic; of old trees small and scale-like, closely imbricate; of young trees or of the lower branches of old ones longer and narrower, spreading, linear or linearsubulate. Flowers diœcious or more rarely monœcious. Males solitary at the tips of the branchlets and sessile amongst the uppermost leaves. Staminal column oblong or cylindrical; anthers sessile, spirally imbricate; cells 2, globose, contiguous, deflexed; connective prolonged into a terminal claw or spur. Female flowers at or