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pectinate arrangement. They have short stalks and 
two dull glaucous strips ‘of stomata. 
It was introduced by R. Pearce from Chili and the 
Andes in 1860, and was once called P. Andina (no 
connection with the Podocarpus Chilina sometimes 
described as P. Andina). There is a beautiful tree 
at Eastnor Castle, Ledbury, which presents a very 
striking appearance. Generally, and elsewhere, it 
seems to assume rather the shape and dimensions of 
a plumose-looking bush than a tree. , 
The P. Spicata so far with us is only a conservatory 
plant. 
SAXEGOTHEA CONSPICUA 
Another of these S. American plants that hails 
from Chile and Patagonia, and presents with us only 
a rare and generally stunted appearance. It is a 
tree that few have the opportunity of making a 
personal acquaintance with or investigation of. Ex- 
cellent pictures of its leaves, flowers, and terminal 
cones are given in Veitch’s Book of Conifers and 
Clinton Baker’s book. From its appearance there 
it has the look of a short-leaved Prumnopitys, but 
the leaves are more uniformly pointed, and show 
whiter and more conspicuous bands of stomata on 
the lower surface. They are also decurrent at the 
base, which is a clue to identification. Its branches 
droop, and while the older are of a yellow-brown 
colour, the younger shoots are of a dull pale-green hue. 
The mythological Chimera, that fell a victim to 
the redoubtable rider of Pegasus, Bellerophon, was 
described as an animal composed of three distinct 
living bodies—a lion, a goat, and a dragon. The 
Saxegothea goes two better; it is described by 
Lindley as having the male flowers of a Podocarp, 
the female cone of a Kauri Pine, the fruit of a Juniper, 
the seed of a Dacrydium, and the habit of a Yew, 
