Tas. 4616. 
FITZ-ROYA PatAGonica. 
Patagonian Fitz-Roya. 
Nat. Ord. Conrrer# (§ THuropsipez).—Mona@cia PoLyanDRIa. 
Gen. Char. Frrz-Roya, Hook. fil. Fu. Masc. ? Fam. Amenta solitaria, 
sessilia, globosa, ramulis brevibus terminalia. Syuame 6 (3 aliz abortivee, ter- 
minales, minute, tuberculiformes), imbricatz, in duas series inserte, ovato-orbi- 
culares, crass, coriaceze, dorso supra medium spina brevi recurvata; 8 exteriores 
minores, magis patentes, steriles; interiores erect, ovulifere. Ovula 3 ad 
basin singule squame. Fructus: Strobilus amentum emulans ; squame Sructi- 
Sere trisperme. Semina orbiculari-subbiloba, alato-compressa.—Arbor semper- 
virens Patagonica, ramosissima.° Folia decussata, quaterna, parva, oblonga vel 
ovata, acutiuscula, concava, dorso carinata, lineisque duabus depressis glaucis, de- 
currentia, juniora patentia, statu adulto erecto-patentia, imbricata, breviora. 
Frrz-Roya Patagonica. 
Frrz-Roya Patagonica. Hook. fil. in Herb. Hook. Lindl. in Pazxton’s Flower- 
Garden. v. 2. p. 147. 0. 387. : 
Specimens of this fine subantarctic tree, collected during the 
voyage of Capt. Robert Fitz-Roy, in H.M. surveying ship Beagle, 
were long ago examined and the fruit analyzed, and sketched, and 
named Fitz-Roya in compliment to that distinguished scien- 
tific officer. Nothing more seems to have been known of it till 
Mr. W. Lobb was sent by Messrs. Veitch and Son on his enter- 
prising botanical mission in South America. There, on the 
Pacific side of Patagonia, this “ magnificent ” tree was met with 
in abundance. The seeds have been successfully reared ; and 
although the plants are yet but small they bear female cones 
abundantly, and prove to be perfectly hardy; and Dr. Lindley 
very justly observes, that the “Sawe-Gothea conspicua, Fitz-Roya 
Patagonica, Libocedrus tetragona, and Podocarpus nubicola,’”’ all 
now flourishing in the open air in Mr. Veitch’s Nursery, “are 
the four most interesting Conifer@ for this country, after Arau- 
caria imbricata, which South America produces.” 
Dzscr. We are not able from personal knowledge to describe 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1851. 
