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Dacrydium.] (usually 3–4), oblong, obtuse, compressed, striate, about ⅛ in. long.—Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst.x. (1878) 390, t. 19; Forest Fl. t. 97; ''Hook. f. Ic. Plant. t. 1219; Pilger in Pflanzenreich,'' iv. 5, 46.

2. D. biforme, Pilger in Pflanzenreich, iv. 5, 45.—A small tree 15–30 ft. or 40 ft. high, in alpine localities often dwarfed to a few feet; trunk short, 1–2 ft. diam.; bark dark-brown; branches stout, clothed with the persistent and indurated leaves; mature branchlets tetragonous. Leaves of two forms; those of young plants and on the lower branches of old ones spreading, ⅓–¾ in. long, $1⁄15$–$1⁄12$ in. broad, linear, acute, narrowed into a very short broad often twisted petiole, flat, coriaceous; midrib distinct. Leaves of old or fertile branchlets small and scale-like, densely quadrifariously imbricate and closely appressed, $1⁄20$–$1⁄12$ in. long, triangular or rhomboid-triangular, obtuse, very thick and coriaceous, stoutly and prominently keeled on the back. Flowers dioecious. Males solitary, terminal, sessile, about ⅛ in. long; anthers 4–6; connective ovate, obtuse. Female flowers near the tips of the branchlets. Nuts 1–2 (usually solitary), oblong, obtuse, striate, compressed, about $1⁄10$ in. long.—D. Colensoi, ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 234, and Handb. N.Z. Fl. 259 (not of Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 548); Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. x. (1878) 390; Forest Fl.'' t. 96. Podocarpus(?) biformis, ''Hook. Ic. Plant.'' t. 544.

3. D. Bidwillii, Hook. f. ex T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. x. (1878) 388.—A closely branched erect or prostrate shrub 2–10 ft. high; lower branches spreading, sometimes reclinate and rooting; upper more erect, frequently giving a pyramidal form to the plant; trunk short, 3–9 in. diam. Leaves of two forms; those of young plants and on the lower branches of old ones spreading, crowded,