132 LIBOCEDRUS ; OR 



tubercle on the outside below the apex ; the two larger scales 

 have each two seeds at their base ; the two lower, or smaller 

 ones, being abortive ; each cone generally having four seeds, 

 which stand erect, and with unequal sided wings. 



A fine evergreen tree, attaining a height of from sixty to 

 eighty feet in the Andes of Chilis where it is found in cold 

 valleys on the Southern Andes, and on the Volcano of Antuco, 

 a mountain about three degrees north of Valdivia. Poeppeg 

 states that it resembles the American Arbor- Vitse, when full 

 grown, but is less robust, sometimes branching from the base, 

 and gaining the habit of a Cypress, but in other cases forming 

 a conical head, with a straight trunk, clothed with rough 

 cracked bark, of a brownish ash colour, and scarcely more than 

 a foot in diameter, with a yellowish, resinous, hard, strong- 

 scented wood. 



A beautiful species, nearly or quite hardy in favourable situa- 

 tions in England. 



LiBOCEDRus Chilensis viridis, Hort. 

 Syn. Libocedrus excelsa, Hort. 



This variety only differs from the species in having bright 

 green leaves, entirely free from the glaucous bands on the leaves 

 and branchlets. 



No. 2. Libocedrus Doniana, Endlicher, Don's Arbor- VitsB. 

 Syn. Thuja Doniana, Hooker. 

 „ Dacrydium plumosum, Don. 



Leaves, in four rows ; marginal ones more or less extended at 

 the points, acute, and clasping on both sides ; while those on the 

 upper and under surfaces are pressed flat, very much smaller, 

 nearly round, and acute pointed, with the outer surface of the 

 leaves clothing the under part of the branchlets of a much lighter 

 colour, and thickly covered with a glaucous bloom, while the 

 outward surface of those on the upper part are smooth, and of a 

 glossy green. Branches, rounded, with a smooth brownish 

 bark ; branchlets, arranged in two rows, flat, compressed, and 

 clothed witii four rows of small imbricated leaves. Cones, 



