the appearance of those of Araucaria Cunninghami, and are very 
little different from those of 4. exce/sa, except that this latter is 
more regular and uniform in its whorls of branches. The young 
leaves are sparse, rather distant, four lines long, subulate, broad 
and slightly decurrent at the base, laterally compressed, ending 
in a fine sharp pomt or mucro, all these with a slightly down- 
ward curve; whereas the adult leaves on the old branches and 
branchlets are densely imbricated, even to the very point of the 
branches; all are short and broadly ovate (fig. 1, 2, 4), obtuse, con- 
cave on the upper side, .with a blunt or flattened, often oblique, 
ridge or carina on the underside. Jale cones terminal, oblong, . 
an inch and a half long, thrice as wide as the branchlet pro- 
ducing them ; the scales closely imbricated (as the leaves on the 
branches), cordato-ovate, acute, finely denticulate, bearing at the 
base ten to twelve subulato-cylindrical anther-cells. Female cones 
on short, lateral branches, apparently generally in pairs, between 
ovate and elliptical, from four to five inches long, three and a 
half to four inches broad, formed of extremely compact. imbri- 
cated, broadly ovato-cuneate coriaceous scales, membranaceous 
at the margins, plane or nearly so both above and beneath, the 
apex suddenly turning up at an angle, and there thickened, and 
of an olive-green colour, under a microscope seen to be studded 
with opake resinous dots; this turned-up apex of the scale* 
is the only portion seen in the entire cone, and it suddenly 
contracts into a rather long, recurved, subulate, brown mucro. 
Lodged within the disc of this scale (forming one with the scale) 
we find two oblong seeds. W. J. H. 
Cuxr. It will be advisable to keep young-plants of this new 
species In a warm greenhouse during winter. The few that have 
yet come under our notice appear to grow as freely as A. eacelsa 
and Cunninghami. Light loam, mixed with a small quantity of leaf- 
mould, suits them ; and by timely shiftings into larger pots, and 
keeping the branches free from being crowded with other plants, 
they will in a few years form graceful trees, which may be 
placed out-of-doors in sheltered situations during summer. J. 8. 
ey 4635 exhibits a male branch, with antheriferous cones; and a female 
pr ch, with fertile cones :—natural size. Fig. 1, front, and 2, back view of 
ult leaves :—magnified. 3. Scale from a male cone or anther :—also magnified. 
.* In Araucaria excelsa these scales are very thick and woody, remarkabl 
gibbous, both above and beneath ; and this phim gives quia a diferent 
character to the cone from that of 4. columnaris, independent of the short and 
not recurved mucro. The cones of 4. Cutninghami are remarkable for the rich 
mahogany-brown colour : the scales have a very broad membranaceous wing, and 
there is, at the tip only, a considerable thickening both on the upper and lower 
aed a a flattened apex, from the centre of which the mucro seems to 
