THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS 



pressed umbo on back and with 2-6 2- or 3-winged seeds. (Named in honor 



of Captain R. Fitzroy, of the British Navy; died in 1855). — It contains only 



the following species: 



F, patagonica, Hook. f. Patagonian F. Fig. 49. Tree to 100 feet tall, 



in cultivation usually shrubby; bark thick, fibrous, deeply furrowed: leaves 

 ternate or occasionally opposite, spreading or somewhat 

 imbricate, ovate-oblong to narrow-oblong, with incurved 

 mucronate tip, about i/g i^ch long, dark green and concave 

 above, keeled on back, with 2 white 

 stomatic bands beneath: cones globose, 

 3^ inch across. Southern Chile. — Intro- 

 duced to Great Britain by Wm. Lobb; to 

 this country by the Biltmore Nurseries 

 prior to 1900. It may be hardy as far 

 north as the Middle Atlantic States in 

 sheltered positions. In cultivation it is 

 usually a shrub of slow growth and un- 

 symmetrical habit, apparently without 

 special ornamental merits. 



The closely related genus Diselma, 

 Hook, f., differs chiefly in the cones with 

 2 pairs of scales, the inner scales each 

 with 2 three-winged seeds, and in the 

 opposite, scale-like, closely appressed 

 leaves. The only species D. Archeri, 

 Hook. f. (Fitzroya Archeri, Benth.), has 

 been introduced to Great Britain, but 

 apparently is at present no longer in 

 cultivation. 



49. Fitzroya patagonica 



8. CALLITRIS, Vent. CYPRESS-PINE; including Odoclinis, F. Muell. 



Evergreen trees; branchlets articulate, 3- or rarely 4-angled or nearly 

 terete: leaves in whorls of 3, or rarely 4, reduced to minute scales: flowers 

 monoecious; stamina te catkins ovoid to cylindric, the stamens in whorls of 

 3 or 4 : cones on short and thick peduncles, without bracts at base, subglobose 

 to oblong, usually ripening the second season; scales 6 or rarely 8, unequal, 

 those of the outer whorl smaller; seeds many to each scale, winged; coty- 

 ledons 2, rarely 3. (Name derived from Greek kallos, beauty, and tris, thrice; 

 referring to the ternate whorls of leaves and cones.) — ^About 12 species in 

 Australia and New Caledonia. 



C. robusta, R. Br. (C. verrucosa, R. Br. Frenela robusta, A. Cunn.). 



