Tab. 8664. 

 SAXEGOTHAEA conspicua. 



Chile. 



Taxaceae. 



Saxboothaba, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gm. Plant, vol. iii. p. 434 ! Pilrjcr 

 m Engl. Pflanzcnr. vol. iv. Abteil. 5 {Taxaceae), p. 42. 



Saxegothaea conspieua, Lindl. in Journ. Hort. Soc. vol. vi. (1851) p 258 et 

 in Lindl. J Part. Flotv. Qard.YOl.ii (1851-1852), p. Ill, cum icon.; 

 0. Gay, Fl. GUI. vol. v. p. 412; DC. Prodr. vol. xvi. pars ii. p. 497- 

 Masters in Gard. Chron. 1887, vol. ii. p. 684, figs. 130, 131, et l.c . 1889 

 vol v. p. 782, fig 125 ; Kent in Vcitch Mm. Conif. p. 158, fig. 55; Elwel 

 A Henry, Trees of Great Brit. & Irel. vol. vi. p. 1459 ; species unica. 



Arbor ad 9 m. alta velfrutcx, ramulis angulatis, novellis cortice pallide viridi 

 tectis vetustis flavido-fuscis. Folia per 4-5 annos persistentia, linearia, 

 mucronata, 6-10 mm. longa, l'5-3 mm. lata, coriacea, supra saturate 

 viridia, subtus lmis binis latis stomatiferis albis notata, costa utrinque 

 prommula, marginibus incrassatis. Strobili mascidi e foliorum superiorum 

 axilhs orti, solitarii, cylindrici, basi squamarum ovatarum aoutarum paribus 

 binis suffulti, 4-6 ram. longi, brunnei. Strobili feminei ramulos termi- 

 nantes, subglobosi, virides, 6-8 mm. longi ; squamae inferiores steriles, 

 caeterae ovuhferae, triangulari-ovatae, mucronatae, basi lata affixae, 

 crassae, supra basin versus ovulum in fossa immersum solitarium gerentes ; 

 ovulum epimatio libero albido fere totum circumdatum. Fructus carnosus] 

 globosus, muricatus, e squamis praeter apices induratos liberos connatis 

 formatus, 1 cm. diametro demum inter squamas dehiscens. Semina cum 

 quoque fructu circiter 6, rotundato-ovata, compressa, bimarginata. 4 mm 

 longa.— 0. Staff. 



The interesting Coniferous genus Saxe/jothaea was first 

 discovered by Mr. W. Lobb in 1846 in the Chilean 

 province of Llanquihue, at the Bay of Coman about 

 .Lat. 42° S., and was named by Professor Lindley after 

 H.R.H. the Prince Consort. It is further represented at 

 Kew by specimens from the neighbourhood of Valdivia 

 and from Chiloe, while Dr. Pilger records its collection by 

 Mr. Dusen in Western Patagonia, though it is not clear that 

 this means more than Southern Chile. As a cultivated 

 plant S. cowpicua, the only species of the genus, thrives 

 best in the milder parts of the British Islands, and particu- 

 larly in the west of Ireland. For the material for our 

 figure we are indebted to the Marquess of Sligo in whose 

 collection at Westport House, Mayo, it flowered freelv in 



June, 1916. J 



