near Queenstown, and at Kilmacurragh, while there is a 
well-known example in the Royal demesne at Osborne, 
Isle of Wight. It has also lived out of doors in parts of 
Surrey and Sussex. The date of its first introduction 
to Europe is uncertain, but the tree at Fota, which is 
now nearly fifty feet in height, is believed to have been 
planted half-a-century ago. The figure now given has 
been prepared from a small tree in cultivation in the 
Temperate House at Kew, which forms part of. the 
munificent bequest made to the Royal Gardens by 
the late Mr. George Joad of Wimbledon in 1881. The 
relationship of Nothofagus to Faugus—of the Southern to 
the Northern Beech—has already been discussed in this 
work at t. 8314. Among the Southern Beeches the 
present one is clearly closely allied to NV. Menziesii, Oerst., 
from New Zealand. Among the South American species 
the ones which come nearest to the Australian, if the 
structure of the female inflorescenee be taken as our 
guide, are those which differ from the rest in having 
deciduous leaves. Like most Southern Beeches this one 
may be propagated by layering when seeds are not 
available. 
Description.— Tee, on the lower mountain slopes in 
Tasmania sometimes attaining a height of 200 ft. and a 
girth of 40 ft., but towards the mountain-tops forming a 
dense dwarf shrub; branches clothed with a tawny or 
pale-tawny bark; twigs long pubescent. Buds ovoid- 
conical, }—j in. long, glabrous ; their scales ovate or ovate- 
oblong, acute or subacute, brown, polished. Leaves ever- 
green, more or less deltoid-ovate or rhomboid, acute, the 
base wide-rounded or very wide-cuneate, crenate, usually 
3-4 in. long and about 1 in. wide, but sometimes much 
smaller or much larger, coriaceous, glabrous; nerves 
slender and often hardly visible, 4-5 along each side; 
stipules linear, } in. long, caducous ; petioles ;, in. long 
or less, very finely puberulous. Male flowers axillary, 
solitary, subsessile or with pedicels ;'; in. long or less. 
Perianth subcampanulate, 4 in, long, glabrous; lobes 6, 
ovate, acute. Stamens about 8. Female flowers in threes — 
Surrounded by a common involucre, the lateral flowers 
of each cluster 3-merous, the central one 2-merous, the 
