Tas. 8314. 
NOTHOFAGUS anrarorica, var. ULIGINOSA. 
Temperate South America. 
CuUPULIFERAE. Tribe QUERCINEAR. 
Notuoracus, Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. vol. i. p. 307.—Fagus, Linn., sect. 
Nothofagus, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 410. 
Nothofagus antarctica, Oersted in Vidensk. Selsk. Sk. ser. 5, vol. ix. p. 854; 
De Wildeman, Voy. Belgica, p. 73; Dusén in Svensk. Exped. Magell. vol. iii. 
n. 5, p. 198; Hlwes & Henry, Trees of Great Brit. & Ireland, vol. iii. p. 553, 
t. 202, f. 1; var. uliginosa, Feiche, Beitr. Chil. Buchen, p.11; Macloskie in 
Rep. Princeton Univ. Exped. Patag. vol. viii. p. 328; Elwes & Henry, 1.c. 
p. 554; a typo foliis utrinque pilis minutis erectis vestitis differt. 
Arbor interdum magnum vel in montibus arbuscula vel frutex; rami sparse 
albido-lenticellosi, juniores pilis erectis dense vestiti; gemmae ovoideae, 
leviter compressae, 3 mm. longae, glabrae, squamis paucis obtectae. Folia 
oblongo-ovata, elliptico-ovata vel ovata, 1-2°5 cm. rarius usque ad 4 em. 
longa, 6 mm. - 1-5 em. rarius usque ad 2°5 cm. lata, apice rotundata, basi 
inaequalia, truncata vel leviter cordata, irregulariter crebreque crenulato- 
denticulata, interdum obscure lobata, supra atro-viridia, infra pallidiora, 
utrinque pilis minutis erectis vestita, primo plicata; nervi saepius 
utrinque 4; petiolus 1-4 mm. longus, pubescens. ores masculi axillares, 
solitarii vel interdum geminati, breviter pedunculati. Perianthium eam- 
panulatum, 4 mm. longum, saepe 5-lobatum, lobis late ovatis circiter 
2 mm. longis uno saepius ceteris minori parce ciliatis. Stamina 10-29, 
exserta ; antherae lineari-oblongae, 2°5-3°5 mm. longae, conspicue apicu- 
latae. Flores feminei axillares, sessiles. Fructus involucrum 4-valvatum ; 
valvae oblongae, 5-6 mm. longae, parce ciliatae, quaque squamis 3-5 trans- 
versis brevissimis scariosis rubidis praedita. Nuculae 8, circiter 4 mm. 
longae, media 2-alata, laterales 3-alatae— Magus anturctica, Forster, var. 
ulig’nosa, A.DC. in DC. Prodr. vol. xvi. pars 2, p. 120; Bean in Kew Bull. 
1906, p. 881. F. uliginosa, Phil. ex A.DC. le.—S. A. SAN. 
The Southern Beeches, at one time considered congeners 
of the Northern ones, are now usually treated as belonging 
to a distinct genus, Nothofagus, which includes 17 species, 
whereof 8 are South American, 6 belong to the New Zealand 
flora, and 3 are Australian or Tasmanian. These southern 
species differ from the members of the northern genus 
Fagus in that the male flowers are solitary, geminate, or 
in threes, while the fruit, which is relatively small and 
contains 1-3 nutlets, usually has the 2-4 involucral valves 
with transverse entire toothed or lobed scales. They are 
evergreen or deciduous trees or shrubs with usually very 
small leaves. 
May, 1910. 
