Illustrations of Conifers. 81 



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FITZROYA PATAGONICA {J. D. Hooker). 



Journ. Bort. Soc, London, Vol. VI., 2G4 (1851). 



Botanical Magazine, t. 4616 (1851). 



Veitch's Man. Conif. ed. 2, p. 198 (1900). 



Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. VI. p. 1454 (1912). 



A tree attaining in Chile a height of 80 to 160 feet, with deeply 

 furrowed fibrous bark peeling off in narrow ribbons. 



liranchlets flexible. Leaves persistent several years, in alter- 

 nating whorls of threes, decurrent on the branchlets, narrowly ovate- 

 oblong or spathulate, mucronate ; upper surface concave and with 

 two narrow white stomatic depressions ; lower surface keeled, and 

 also with two narrow white stomatic depressions often extending 

 from the base to the apex. 



Flowers usually dioecious, occasionally monoecious. Cones on 

 short lateral shoots of the preceding year, globose, composed of 

 six woody scales in two alternating whorls, each with a prominent 

 umbo, the three upper scales fertile, each bearing two to five winged 

 seeds. 



Fitzroya patagonica, which occurs as a wild tree on the 

 western slope of the Andes of southern Chile, where it often forms 

 extensive and nearly pure woods in marshy situations, was introduced 

 into cultivation in 1849 by William Lobb. 



The illustration represents a specimen growing at Highnam 

 Court, Gloucester. 



