| * Cladodes pinnately arranged. | |
| Tree 50–70 ft. Cladodes ½–1 in. Female flowers on the margins of the cladodes | 1. P. trichomanoides. |
| Tree 25–40 ft. Cladodes 1–2½ in. Female flowers peduncled on the rhachis below the cladodes | 2. P. glaucus. |
| ** Cladodes simple. | |
| Shrub or tree 5–25 ft. Cladodes ½–1 in. Female flowers on the margins of the cladodes near the base | 3. P. alpinus. |
1. P. trichomanoides, D. Don. in Lamb. Pin. ed. ii. App.—A tall graceful tree 50–70 ft. high; trunk 1–3 ft. diam.; branches whorled, slender, spreading. Cladodes or flattened leaf-like branchlets alternate and distichous on whorled rhachises 1–3 in. long, each rhachis and its cladodes resembllng a pinnate leaf; each cladode ½–1 in. long, obliquely cuneate or rhomboid, thick and coriaceous, lobed or pinnatifid, the lobes truncate or erose; veins spreading. Leaves of seedling plants ½–¾ in. long, narrow-linear, soon deciduous; of older plaints reduced to minute subulate scales at the base of the rhachises of the cladodes or of the cladodes themselves. Flowers monœcious. Males in fascicles of 5–10 at the tips of the branchlets, ⅓–½ in. long. Females on the margins of modified cladodes at the tips of the branchlets, cladodes much reduced in. size, often little more than a peduncle, each flower in the axil of a mmute subulate bract. Nuts sohtary, compressed, half exserted beyond the thickened and fleshy scales; aril cupular, with an irregularly crenulate margin.—A. Cunn. Precur. n. 326; Raoul, Choix, 41; Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 549, 550, 551; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 235; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 259; Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. x. (1878) 381; Forest Fl. t. 6, 7; Pilger in Pflanzenreich, iv. 5, 97. P. rhomboidalis, A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 363 (not of L. C. Rich.).
North Island: In forests from the North Cape to Taranaki and Hawke's Bay, not uncommon. South Island: Northern portions of Nelson and. Marlborough, advancing along the West Coast as far south as Westport. Sea-level to 2500 ft. Tanekaha; Toatoa; Celery-leaved Pine.
Wood white, close-grained, free from knots and other defects, very serviceable for sleepers, piles, the timbers of bridges, and probably for general building purposes. Bark often used for tanning, and by the Maoris for the preparation of a red dye.
2. P. glaucus, Carr. Trait. Gen. Conif. 502.—A small handsome tapering tree 25–40 ft. high; branches stout, whorled; trunk 12–18 in. diam., rarely more. Cladodes or flattened leaf-like branchlets alternate and distichous on a rhachis 4–12 in. long, glaucous when young, 1–2½ in. long, rhomboid or obliquely ovate-cuneate, extremely coriaceous, deeply or coarsely toothed or lobed, lobes obtuse or acute. True leaves on seedling plants ½–1 in. long, linear,
