SAXEGOTH^A COXSPICUA. 



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f our five years, linear, nmcronate, 0'5 0*75 inch long, spirally 

 arranged with a bifarious tendency on the horizontal shoots, spreading 

 on all sides on the erect ones, dark green above with the midrib 

 slightly raised, with two pale stomatiferous lines beneath. Staminato 

 flowers cylindric, whitish brown on a short axillary stalk with a few 

 involucral bracts at the base ; anthers , two-celled, dehiscing longitudinally. 

 Ovnliferous flowers terminal, small, roundish, with a short footstalk 

 and distant leafy scales that graduate into lanceolate, * imbricated, 



Fig. 55. A fruiting branchlet of Saxegothcea- conspicua, natural size. 1, Htaminate, 2, Ovuliferous 



flower enlarged. 

 Communicated by Mr. H. M. Imbert Terry from Strete Ralegh, near Exeter. 



mucronate ovuliferous scales each bearing a solitary inverted ovule. 

 Fruit a fleshy globose body less than an inch in diameter formed by 

 the coalescence of the fertilised scales, the individuality of which is 

 indicated by the projecting apex. 



Saxegothsea conspicua, Lindley in Journ. Hort. Soc. Loud. loc. cit. ; and Paxtoirs 

 Flower Garden, I. Ill, with figs. Gay, Fl. Chile, V. 411. Carriere, Traite Conif 

 ed. II. 683. Parlatore, D. C. Prodr. XVI. 497. Gordon, Pinet. ed. II. 372. 

 Beissner, Nadelholzk. 195. Masters in Gard. Chron. II. ser. 3 (1887) p. 684 * 

 V. ser. 3 (1889), p. 782 ; with figs. ; and in Journ. R. Hort. Soc. XIV. 70. 



