142 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS I BOTANY. 



6, unequal scales, the outer ones smaller; and 4 carpels, the upper pair 

 each 2-seeded. Seeds each with a large and a small wing. (Fig. in Eng. 

 & Prantl., ii, i, 97.) 



L. TETRAGONA Endl. (Thiija t. Hook.) 



Bark reddish ; the strobiliferous branch exceeding the strobile. 



S. & W. Patagon.; Magellan through Fuegia to Cape Horn; under 

 the snow-line of the mountains; the only "needle-tree" of the Magellan 

 lands. Common in islands of Lago Nahuel-huapi. Stem varying accord- 

 ing to place from 50 centimeters to 50 meters high. This genus has 

 species in S. Chili, California, China, Japan, New Caledonia and New 

 Zealand. Allied to the amber-trees of Europe and North Greenland. L. 

 chilensis Endl. with branches compressed and leaves acute, and strobilifer- 

 ous branch shorter than the strobile, extends southward in the Chilian 

 Andes to Valdivia, 40 S. lat. 



Family 3. TAXACE^E. Yew Family. 



Cones incomplete : seeds exposed, with an epimatium, or excrescence 

 from the carpel ; often a fleshy cup. 



Subfamily PODOCARPE^.. 



Seeds more or less inverted, only i to each carpel. Stamens with 2 

 pollen-sacs ; pollen-grains with wings. Flowers mostly dioecious. 



(i) Scales of female cone very few or many, often fleshy, spirally crowded. 



1. SAXEGOTHEA Lindl. 



An evergreen tree with linear plane to needle-shaped leaves, in 2 diver- 

 gent rows. Carpels numerous, the scales at length fleshy and coalescing 

 into a round fleshy cone opening downwards. Monoecious. 



Species i, viz : 



S. CONSPICUA Lindl. ( Taxus patagonica Hort.) 



Leaves with 2 white stripes underneath. 



Only in lower regions of the Patagonian Andes and in Chili. 



2. PODOCARPUS 1'Her. 



Trees or shrubs, with spiral, rarely opposite leaves, which are flat-needle- 

 form or broad, and pungent, the margins revolute. Fruiting peduncles 



