264 NOTICES OF CERTAIN ORNAMENTAL PLANTS 



2. PODOCARPUS NUBIGENA. 



P. nuhigena; (Eupodocarpus) monoica foliis linearibus mucro- 

 natis subtus glaucis, pedunculis solitariis receptaculo oblique 

 ^ bilobo obovato brevioribus, fructibus oblongis oblique obtuse 

 apiculatis. 



This is one of the " Yews " mentioned by Mr, Lobb under 

 Saxe-Gothasa, and in general aspect it sufficiently justifies the 

 name. It is a plant with stiff, linear, deep-green leaves, having 

 a broad double glaucous band on the underside. The male 

 flowers are unknown. The fruit is drupaceous, and grows singly 

 in the axils of the leaves on very short stalks ; the receptacle is 

 obovate, and obliquely 2-lobed ; the nut oblong, slightly bossed, 

 and curved inwards at the point. 



No species of Podocarp yet discovered agrees with this. P. 

 Lamberti, from Brazil, has leaves green on both sides, and 

 globose fruit. P. chilina has broader leaves, also not glaucous, 

 and fruit with very long stalks. P. andina has the fruit in 

 spikes. 



Messrs. Veitch possess only two small plants of this species. 



3. FITZ-ROYA PATAGONICA, J. D. Hooker. 



By this name Dr. Hooker proposes to distinguish one of the 

 magnificent trees mentioned by Mr. Lobb under Saxe-Gothsea. 

 When young, it is a graceful drooping evergreen shrub, with 

 the habit of Libocedrus tetragona, to which it in fact approaches 

 so nearly when old as not to be easily distinguishable unless in 

 fruit. When young, the leaves are very spreading, linear, acute, 

 decussate, narrowed at the base, flat, with 2 glaucous lines on the 

 underside. When old, they become triangular, sessile, closely- 

 imbricated scales, with very little appearance of glaucousness. 

 The female flowers are little terminal stellate cones, remarkable 

 for having the axis terminating in 3 soft clavate glands (or 

 abortive scales), I have not examined them very carefully, but 

 Mr. B. Clarke, with whose notes and sketches of this plant Sir 

 W. Hooker has also favoured me, describes the fruit as consisting 

 " of 9 scales, 3 in a whorl. The lower 3, which alternate with 

 the uppermost leaves, are barren ; the intermediate 3 only are 

 fertile ; the 3 uppermost alternate with the fertile and are flat- 

 tened, but stand with their edges outwards. Each fertile scale 

 has 3 erect seeds, surrounded by a broad wing, and ending in a 

 narrow neck; the central seed is attached to the scale, the 2 

 lateral to the axil ; sometimes 2 seeds are on the scale, and 3 on 

 the axil." The male flowers are unknown ; but as far as the 



