Ferdinand von Mueller

1

Note found with a specimen of Halocarpus kirkii. Punctuation uses dashes of various lengths, standardized in the transcript to distinguish them from hyphens.

388

Great Barrier Island

From a little above the sea level to 2000 ft

Decr 1867

T. Kirk.

A diocious tree 40 to 60 ft high 3 ft or more in diameter, bark reddish-brown slightly flaky, wood red, apparently dura ble. b ranches spreadin g at le ngth ascending — L .

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Leaves.

of two kinds — in young trees & in sheltered lowlands on trees up to 40 ft high. — 1-1½ in long lanceolate, narrowed into a very short petiole or sessile — nerve prominent, distichous or scattered, not pungent — on older trees branches (with the leaves) terete ⅒ of an inch in diameter leaves most densely quadrifacious, imbricated . A pressed — scale-like, triangular, convex, slightly keeled when old — Fl.

3

Flower.

♂ ca t kins sessile, terminal, solitary ¼-⅛ in long of many minute loosely imbricated scales , an t hers — — — — ♀ terminal, solitary ¼-½ in long of few tumid, green scales — — — at length bearing 3-5 faintly ribbed compressed nuts, with rounded edges.