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3. PITZROYA.— Hook. fil. in Herb. Hook, and in Bot. 

 Mag. t. 4616 ; Lindl. in Paxton's Flower Garden, ii. 115, no. 387 ; 

 CI. Gay, Fl. Chil. v. 410 ; Carr. Conif. 108 and 115 ; Gord. Pinet. 

 81 ; Pari, in D. 0. Prodr. xvi. 2, 463 ; Lemaire, lUustr. Hortic. i. 

 Misc. 30, cum ic. ; Fl. des Serres, vii. 130 ; Eicliler in Engl, and 

 Prantl. Nat. Pflf. ii. p. 95 ; Beissner, Nadelholzk, 8. 



Flowers dioecious, or male and female on separate plants. 



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

 clublike glands or abortive scales, and consisting of nine scales, three 

 in each whorl. 



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

 nate with the upper leaves ; the intermediate three only are fertile, 

 the upper three are alternating, with the fertile 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 footstalks, and more or less spreading or 

 loosely imbricated. 



Named by Dr. Hooker, in compliment to Captain Fitzroy, who 

 first discovered the tree. 



A large evergreen tree, found almost exclusively on the Patagonian 

 mountains. 



P. patagonica. Hook. fil. in Bot. Mag. t. 4616 ; Lindl. in Paxt. 

 Flow. Gard. ii. 115, no. 387 ; Fl. Serr. vii. 129 ; Lindl. Journ. 

 Hort. Soc. vi. 264 ; Ch. Lem. Illustr. 1854, p. 29, cum ic. ; CI. Gay, 

 Fl. Chil. V. 411 ; Carr. Man. des PL iv. 323 ; Carr. Tr. Gen. Conif. 

 109 ; Gord. Pinet. 81 ; Henkel and Hochstetter, 295. CupresteUata 

 patagonica, J. E. Nelson, I.e. 



Habitat. — South-south-western South America, Patagonia to 

 Magellan. 



Introduced in 1851 by Lobb. 



A planted-out specimen died in the winter of 1890-91, but I fear 

 we had covered it too much. 



The plant was first discovered by Captain Fitzroy on the South 

 Pole expedition with ' ' The Beagle " (1831-36). According to Philippi, 

 in Petermann's Mittheilungen, 1860, p. 133, it is this species which 

 yields the Alerce timber, so esteemed on the west coast of South 

 America ; other authors say it is obtained from Lihocedrus tetragona. 



A section of a plank of Fitzroya brought home by William Lobb, 

 and preserved in the musuem of Messrs. Yeitch & Sons' Nursery, 

 shows that the wood is of a reddish colour, straight, and fine in 

 grain, and susceptible of a high polish. The section contains 260 

 cubic inches, and weighs 85 ounces, or about 3 cubic inches to the 



