Fitzroya
(named after Capt. R. Fitzroy, R.N., commander of a surveying expedition; died (1855). ORD., Coniferae. A genus containing a couple of species of dwarf evergreen trees, with imbricated scale-like leaves; one (from Patagonia) is sufficiently hardy to withstand our winters in exceptionally favoured spots. They do well in almost any garden soil, and are readily propagated by means of seeds, or by cuttings of half-ripened branchlets. F. Archeri makes an interesting and handsome cool conservatory plant. F. Archeri (Archer' fl. dioecious, the amenta terminal. male cones erect, one to two lines long, scarcely thicker than the branchlets with their leaves. Young female cones purplish in the dried state, about one line long and broad. l. closely imbricate, but strictly opposite and decussate, very obtuse, thick, and keeled. Tasmania. An erect, densely branched shrub. SYN diselma Archeri. F. patagonica (Patagonian). fl. monoecious, small, consisting of nine scales in three whorls, the upper and lower of which are barren. l. small, ovate-oblong, flat, obtuse, sessile, two to four-rowed. Branches slender, spreading, incurved at the extremities. Tree. Patagonia. (B. M. 4616.)