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Gen. FITZ-EOYA. Hooker. 



Flowers, dioecious, or male and female on separate plants. 



Cones, star-like bodies, having their axis terminating in three 

 soft club-like glands or abortive scales, and consisting of nine 

 scales, three in each whorl. 



Scales, nine in number, in whorls of three, the lower three 

 alternate with the upper leaves, the intermediate three only are 

 fertile, the upper three are alternating with the fertUe ones 

 flattened, and standing with their edges bent outwards. 



Seeds, three under each fertile scale, surrounded by a broad 

 wing, ending in a narrow neck, the centre seed attached to the 

 scale, the other two to the axil, but sometimes two seeds are on 

 the scale, and three on the axil. (Hooker.) 



Leaves, in whorls of three, but sometimes in twos or fours, 

 ovate-oblong, flat, without any foot-stalks, and more or less 

 spreading, or loosely imbricated. 



Named, by Dr. Hooker, in compliment to Capt. Fitz-Koy, 

 who first discovered the tree. 



A large evergreen tree, found on the Patagonian mountains, 



FiTZ-IioYA Patagonica, Hooker, the Patagonian Fitz-Roya. 



Leaves in whorls of three, but sometimes in twos or fours ; 

 linear, or ovate-oblong, and mostly blunt-pointed, decussste, 

 flat, without any foot-stalks, and spreading, of a deep green 

 above, and with two glaucous lines on the under- side, from four 

 to six lines long on the young plants, but much smaller and 

 closer on the adult ones, from one to one line and a half long, 

 closely imbricated, almost oval, and with hardly any traces of 

 the glaucous bands on the under side. Branches irregularly 

 placed along the stem, spreading, rather slender, and bent 

 downwards towards the extremities ; branchlets short, nume- 

 rous, rather clustered, and thickly clothed with foliage. Cones 

 small, solitary, and terminal, star-like bodies, having their axes 

 terminating in three soft club-like glands or abortive scales. 

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