300 SAXE-GOTH^A. 



Salisburia adiantifolia vauiegata. Carriers. 



This variety differs from the ordinary form, by its leaves 

 being variegated and striped with yellow. It is a very nice 

 variety. 



Gen. SAXE-GOTHtEA. Zindlej/. Prince Albert's Yew. 



Flowers, monoecious^ or male and female separate, but on the 

 same plant; male flowers in spikes, female ones in globular 

 heads. 



Fruit, composed of several consolidated free scales, formed 

 into a solid fleshy cone. 



Seeds, a pale brown, glossy, oval nut, with a short, thin, jagged 

 membrane, enveloping the base of the seed only. 



Leaves, alternate, scattered, or somewhat two-rowed, leathery, 

 and flat. 



Named in compliment to his Royal Highness Prince Albert. 



A large bush or small tree, found on the mountains of Pata- 

 gonia. 



Saxe-Gothjea conspicua, Lindley, the Remarkable Saxe- 



Gothaea. 

 Syn. Taxus Patagonica, Hort. 



Leaves, alternate, and scattered, or somewhat in two rows on 

 the branchlets, leathery, stiff, linear, or oblong-lanceolate, some- 

 what sickle-shaped, slightly twisted and reflected, from half to 

 one inch and a half long, and from one to two lines broad, 

 slightly convex on the upper surface, and with a tolerably 

 elevated rib, marked on each side with glaucous bands on the 

 under one, furnished with a very short footstalk at the base, 

 and terminating at the summit in an acute point, sometimes a 

 little rounded. Male catkins, in terminal spikes or racemes ; 

 female flowers, in spherical heads in the form of a little cone, on 

 long, slender, terminal footstalks, sometimes drooping. Fruit, 



