Nothofagus 551 



La Trobe, Tyre's and Thomson's Rivers, and in a few places in the cooler and 

 moister parts of Gipp's Land. The wood' apparently varies : one kind, " red myrtle," 

 being of a bright pink colour, with a grain like that of the English beech, and con- 

 sidered to be suitable for cabinetwork ; another kind, " white myrtle," brownish- 

 grey in tint, is not so attractive in appearance. 



N. Cunninghami is very rare in cultivation. The finest tree (Plate 154), said 

 by Lord Barrymore to have been planted about fifty years ago, is growing at Fota, 

 Co. Cork, and measured, in 1904, 48 feet high by 3 feet 3 inches in girth. This 

 tree has numerous branches, many of them ascending from near the base of the 

 trunk. A tree at Kilmacurragh, Co. Wicklow, with branches ascending and curving 

 at the tips, was 40 feet high by 3 feet 4 inches in 1906. This tree has excrescences 

 on the trunk, similar to the so-called "wood-balls," which are often seen on the 

 common beech. It flowered in 1906. At Osborne, Isle of Wight, there is a tree, 

 30 feet by 2 feet 2 inches, which when Elwes saw it in 1906 seemed thriving. 



It seems to be as hardy as any of the genus, and might be planted with good 

 prospects of success in the extreme south-west of England near the sea. 



(A. H.) 



NOTHOFAGUS BETULOIDES 



Nothofagiis betuloides, Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat, i. 307 (1850); Reiche, Chil. Buck. 15 (1897); 



Wildeman, Voy. Belgica, 74 (1905); Macloskie, Princeton Univ. Expedit. Patagonia, Botany, 



329 (1903-6). 

 Fagus betuloides, Mirbel, Mim. Mus. Paris, Xiv. 465, t. 4 (1827); Loudon, Arb. et Frut. Brit. iii. 



1982 (1838); Hooker, _/<?r. Bot. ii. 155 (1840), and Fl. Antard. ii. 349, t. 124 (1847). 

 Fagus Forsteri, Hooker, Jburn. Bot. ii. 156, t. 8 (1840). 

 Betula antarctica, Forster, Comm, Goett. ix. 45 (1789). 

 Calusparassus betuloides and C. Forsteri, Hombron et Jacquinot, Voy. Pdle St/d, Atlas t. 7 (1853). 



A large evergreen tree. Bark smooth, grey ; scaling near the base in old 

 trees. Young branchlets slender, viscid, covered with short pubescence. Buds 

 minute, brown, ovoid. Leaves (Plate 202, Fig. 3) persistent for two or three years, 

 distichous and crowded on the branchlets, rigid, coriaceous, f to i inch long by 

 J inch or slightly more in breadth, ovate, rounded at the base, acute at the apex, 

 crenate or serrate in margin ; upper surface shining, glabrous, often viscid ; lower 

 surface finely reticulate, glabrous, dotted with resinous papillae; petioles short. 

 Male flowers solitary ; calyx funnel-shaped, four- to seven-lobed ; stamens ten to 

 sixteen, with long and slender filaments. Fruit : involucre four-lobed, with erect 

 filiform glandular processes. 



According to Loudon, both A', betuloides and N. antarctica were introduced in 

 1830, but he had not seen a specimen of either. Sir W. J. Hooker ^ states that 

 healthy young trees of both species, the first, as far as he knew, that ever had 

 reached Europe, were sent in Wardian cases to Kew from Cape Horn in 1843, being 



Report on Tasmanian Timbers by Mr. R. A. Ransome, of the Stanley Works, Chelsea, in Kew Bull. 1889, pp. 114, 115. 

 2 Notts Bot. Antarctic Voyage, 64 (1843) ; cf. also Loudon, Card. Mag. 1843, p. 442- 



