502 A NEW SPECIES OF ARAUCARIA. 
was left for Mr. Allan Cunningham to detect the differences, 
and to send home specimens as well as living plants to the 
Royal Gardens, and to which the name of Araucaria Cun- 
ninghami was given by Mr. Aiton. From its abundance on 
the shores of Moreton Bay, it has been called the “ Moreton 
Bay Pine;" but it is by no means limited to that district. 
* |t occupies a range,” says Mr. Cunningham, “ of 900 miles 
between the parallels of 14° and 293° on the eastern coast of 
New South Wales. On the alluvial banks of the Brisbane 
River, 27° 30/, it rises to a height of from 100 to 130 feet, 
with a girth of from 14 to 16 feet, anda clear trunk of 80 
feet. Itis found ata short distance from the river in lati- 
tude 28° and to the extent of 80 miles inland ; but the trees are 
there comparatively small, and further inland they entirely 
disappear. Its maximum, therefore, is evidently on the 
coast, within the influence of the sea air." 
As already observed, the Australian species of Araucaria 
differ remarkably. in their foliage from those of the New 
World. It was therefore with no small degree of pleasure 
that the Linnean Society received a communication from 
J. T. Bidwill, Esq., then resident at Sydney, giving an ac- 
count of a new Araucaria of the country interior from 
Moreton Bay, of which the foliage could scarcely be dis- 
tinguished from the Chili Pine. A specimen of a branch 
with foliage accompanied the communication, and a state- 
ment that the seeds of this Pine were extensively collected 
by the natives above Moreton Bay and used as food. Ina 
voyage which Mr. Bidwill subsequently made to Moreton Bay, 
he resolved to visit the locality of this remarkable tree him- 
self, and in the summer of the present year (1843) he has 
brought to England not only branches and cones and male 
flowers, but also a healthy young living plant. This noble 
tree I propose to dedicate to its discoverer, who is not only 
a successful cultivator of plants in his garden at Sydney, but 
who has been the means of making known to us many novel 
plants of Australia, and more especially of New Zealand. 
