150 FAGUS ANTARCTICA OF FORSTER. 
Has. Straits of Magalhaens. Capt. King. (Specimen 
here represented from Port Famine.) 
Arbor. Ramali distichi, breves, subtortuosi, rugosi, atroz 
fusci, nitidiusculi, juniores solummodo parce pubescentes. 
Folia disticha, approximata, unciam longa, basi vix $ unciam 
lata, oblongo-ovata valde obtusa, subcoriaceo-membranacea; 
glabra, pinnatim venosa, venis obliquis subtus prominentibus 
atque minute reticulatis, margine inzqualiter dentato-serratis 
etiam obscure lobatis, dentibus obtusis; basi suboblique trun- 
catis; petiolo vix 3 lineas longo, gracili, glabro. Flores 
masculi absunt in examplaribus meis :—foeminei axillares, 
Cupula solitaria, sessilis, magnitudine pisi communis, coria 
cea, profunde 4-partita, laciniis inzequalibus ssepe duabus - 
longioribus liberis, duabus brevioribus magis minusve | 
natis, omnibus oblongo-linearibus integris integerrimisqué - 
ciliatis, dorso simplici serie squamosis, squamis ciliatis. Nuces > 
3 in singula cupula, cordatæ, exteriores trigonæ trialatæ, et — 
plerumque tristylosæ, intermedia compressa bialata et pe - 
rumque bistylosa; alis superne ciliatis. LP 
Tam. VI.—Fagus antarctica. Fig. 1, Leaves; f..2. Cu- 
pule with nuts: f. 3. Empty cupule; f. 4, 5. Nuts:=mag- 
nified, cue 
It has been long known that a species of Beech inhabited 
Van Dieman’s Land. Mirbel, who in the volume of the 
Mémoires du Muséum d" Hist. Nat. above quoted, enumerates 
all the then known species of the Genus, adds ** Je ne cite le 
Fagus qui, selon Cunningham, (King’s Survey of the Coasts 
of Australia, vol. I, p. 158), croit à la Terre de Dieman; 
mais elle n ’est encore décrite ni nommée." The allusion to 
it in King's * Australia," by Mr Allan Cunningham, is where- 
that distinguished traveller and botanist gives an enumera- - 
tion of the several species of trees that grow at Pine Cove — 
Van Dieman’s Land, and when he says ** Amentace&. Fagus! 
Native Birch. Height 40 feet. Diameter at the base of 
the trunk 12—14 inches."— Original specimens gathered by 
Mr Cunningham at this place (Pine Cove), are now before me: 
