Saxegothea
(named in honour of his late Royal Highness Prince Albert). SYN. Squamataxus. ORD. Coniferae. A monotypic genus. The species is a half-hardy, evergreen tree. For culture, see Taxus.
S. conspicua (conspicuous). Prince Albert's Yew. fl., male catkins in terminal spikes or racemes; females in spherical heads, in the form of a little cone, on long, slender, terminal foot-stalks, sometimes drooping. June. fr. composed of several consolidated, free scales, formed into a solid, fleshy, depressed cone. l. alternate and scattered, or somewhat in two rows on the branchlets, leathery, stiff, linear or oblong-lanceolate, somewhat falcate, slightly twisted and reflected, 1/2in. to 1 1/2in. long, convex above, shortly petiolate, acute. h. 30ft. Southern Chili, 1846. (J. H. S. vi. 258.)