Nothofagus 547 



Leaves, i to i|- inch long, thin in texture, ovate, rounded at the apex ; serrations 

 large, few, irregular ; nerves four to seven pairs. 



14. Nothofagus Moorei, Krasser. Large tree, Australia. Introduced. Leaves, 

 2 to 3 inches long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate ; sharply and finely serrate ; nerves 

 ten to fifteen pairs. 



in. -Leaves evergreen, entire in margin. In this section, the leaves on young 

 trees are glabrous ; but on older trees they become densely tomentose on the under 

 surface. They resemble considerably the leaves of certain species of Vaccinium. 



15. Nothofagus cliff oriioides, O&rst&At. Large tree, Nevi? Zealand. Introduced. 

 Leaves, :|^ to |^ inch long, ovate, rounded at the base ; tomentum vi^hitish. 



16. Nothofagus Solandri} Oerstedt. Large tree. New Zealand. Not intro- 

 duced. Leaves \^o\, inch long, oblong, cuneate at the base ; tomentum whitish. 



17. Nothofagus Blairii,' Krasser. Large tree. New Zealand. Not introduced. 

 Leaves f inch long, ovate, rounded at the base, apiculate at the apex ; tomentum 

 yellowish. (A. H.) 



NOTHOFAGUS CLIFFORTIOIDES 



Nothofagus diffortioides, Oerstedt, Vidensk. Selsk. Skrift. V. ix. 355 (1873). 



Fagus diffortioides, J. D. Hooker, in Hook. Icon. Plant, tt. 673 (1844) and 816 b (1852), Flora 

 New Zealand, i. 230 (1854), and Handk New Zealand Flora, 250 (1864); Kirk, Forest Flora 

 New Zealand, 201, tt. loi, loi a (1889); Cheeseman, New Zealand Flora, 643 (1906). 



An evergreen tree, attaining, in New Zealand, about 50 feet in height and 6 feet 

 in girth. Young branchlets pubescent ; buds minute, ovoid, shining, brown. Leaves 

 (Plate 202, Fig. 4) persistent for two or three years, distichous and crowded on the 

 branchlets, coriaceous, minute, \ to \ inch in length, entire in margin ; on young 

 plants ovate, rounded at both base and apex, green and glabrous on both surfaces ; 

 on adult trees, ovate or ovate-oblong, rounded and unequal at the base, subacute at 

 the apex, minutely punctate above, greyish-white with dense appressed pubescence 

 beneath ; petioles short and pubescent. Male flowers solitary ; stamens eight to 

 twelve. Fruit : involucre \x.C)\ inch long, three-lobed, each lobe with two or three 

 entire transverse lamellae ; nuts one to three, winged, one or two triquetrous, the 

 third flattened. 



This tree is known in New Zealand as the "mountain birch," and is confined to 

 mountainous regions except in the south-western corner of the South Island, where 

 it descends to sea-level. It is not found in the northern part of the North Island; 

 but elsewhere is very common in the forests ' between 2000 and 4000 feet elevation, 



Fagus Solandri, Hooker, Icon. Plant, t. 639 (1844). 

 2 Fagus Blairii, Kirk, Trans. N. Zeal. Inst. xvii. 297, 306 (1885). 



' A view of a forest of this species in the South Island at 3000 feet, showing a dense undergrowth of young beech and 

 tall smooth stems of older trees, is given in Schimper, Plant Geography, 760, f. 460 (1904). 



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