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pectinate arrangement. They have short stalks and 

 two dull glaucous strips of stomata. 



It was introduced by R. Pearce from Chili and the 

 Andes in i860, and was once called P. Andina (no 

 connection with the Podocarpus Chilina sometimes 

 described as P. Andina). There is a beautiful tree 

 at Eastnor Castle, Ledbury, which presents a very 

 striking appearance. Generally, and elsewhere, it 

 seems to assume rather the shape and dimensions of 

 a plumose-looking bush than a tree. 



The P. Spicata so far with us is only a conservatory 

 plant. 



Sa^gothea Conspicua 



Another of these S. American plants that hails 

 from Chile and Patagonia, and presents with us only 

 a rare and generally stunted appearance. It is a 

 tree that few have the opportunity of making a 

 personal acquaintance with or investigation of. Ex- 

 cellent pictures of its leaves, flowers, and terminal 

 cones are given in Ve itch's Book of Conifers and 

 Clinton Baker's book. From its appearance there 

 it has the look of a short-leaved Prumnopitys, but 

 the leaves are more uniformly pointed, and show 

 whiter and more conspicuous bands of stomata on 

 the lower surface. They are also decurrent at the 

 base, which is a clue to identification. Its branches 

 droop, and while the older are of a yellow-brown 

 colour, the younger shoots are of a dull pale-green hue. 



The mythological Chimera, that fell a victim to 

 the redoubtable rider of Pegasus, Bellerophon, was 

 described as an animal composed of three distinct 

 living bodies — a lion, a goat, and a dragon. The 

 Saxegothea goes two better ; it is described by 

 Lindley as having the male flowers of a Podocarp, 

 the female cone of a Kauri Pine, the fruit of a Juniper, 

 the seed of a Dacrydium, and the habit of a Yew, 



