MACLOSKIE I FAGACE^E. 



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FIG. 59. 



tending to the sinuses, glabrescent above, pubescent at margin and on 

 petiole underneath. Male perianth funnelform, obtusely lobed. Anthers 

 slightly exserted, long, mucronulate. Fruit ovoid, 

 its scales i -seriate, rounded, ciliate. Nucules pu- 

 berulous (Fig. 59). 



S. Chili, and S. Patagon., and through Fuegia 

 to Cape Horn. In Cordilleras of S. Patagon. "the 

 most abundant tree." (J. B. Hatcher. Fruiting 

 March 8) ; Staaten I. 



Both kinds of flowers* are on adjacent branches. 

 " Bark rough, fruit small." (R. O. Cunningham.) 



The varieties are numerous. 



NOTHOFAGUS ANTARCTICA BICRENATA ( N. Pumilw, 

 O. Ktze.). N. ANTARCTICA LATIFOLIA F. Kurtz. 



Leaves membranous, glabrous, orbiculate-ovate, 

 lobed, acutely toothed, lateral nerves 3-4, promi- 

 nent underneath. 



Beagle Channel, Navarin I. Nothofagus antarctica. Flow- 

 ering branch with leaves, stami- 



N. ANTARCTICA PALUSTRIS Alboff. na *e flower and fruit. (After 



Flora antarctiea.) 



Shrub, over i meter high, the younger branches 



pubescent. Leaves small, ovate, coriaceous, shining above, pale under- 

 neath, glabrous, glandulous margin crisp, crenulate, the teeth thick-mar- 

 gined, reticulately venous, with the 3-4 lateral nerves prominent under- 

 neath. Near N. antarctica nliginosa. 



Navarin I. and Olivaia, in bogs. 



N. ANTARCTICA SUBALPINA Alboff. 



As N. antarctica palustris, but the leaves larger (2 cm. by 18 mm.), 

 more glabrous and subduplicately crenulate. 



Beagle Channel, subalpine above Ushuaia, where it forms impene- 

 trable thickets, low and twisted intricately like a wall. 



N. ANTARCTICA SUBLOBATA. 



Leaves undulate, few-lobed, and frequently dentate-crenate. 

 Patagon. ; Fuegia, near Cape .Horn. (Plate XIV.) 



