. Araucaria.] CXVI. CONIFER. 243 
The genus ranges over extratropical and subtropical South America, New Zealand, 
and some of the South Pacific Islands. The Australian species are both endemic. 
Leaves rigidly acicular, 2 to 6 lines long. Fruit-cones about 
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Leaves lanceolate, 3 to 14 in. long. Fruit-cones about 9 in. long 2. A. Bidwilli. 
à Cunninghamii, Ait. in Sweet, Hort. Brit. 475. A tree with 
a pyramidal or somewhat flattened head, attaining in some situations 
150 to 200 ft., in others remaining much smaller, Leaves crowded in 
. dense spires, rigidly acicular and very acute, those of the barren 
. branches often spreading, straight, vertically compressed, with the 
dorsal rib decurrent and 1 to 1 i ng, those of the flowering branches 
Queen Port Bowen, R. Brown; Brisbane river, Moreton bay, extending 80 
miles inland, and northward to lat. 14°, A. Cunningham, Leichhardt ; Rockhampton, 
ueller; Burdekin river, Fitzalan. Known as the “ Moreton bay Pine." 
- Wales. Hastings and Clarence rivers, Beckler. 
In general aspect and in foliage the tree much resembles the Norfolk Island Pine 
(4. excelsa), but the cones are very different. 
2. A. B L ot. ii. 503, t. 18. A tree, 
attaining from 100 to 150 ft. in height, with a remarkably stout trunk 
and smooth bark, the branches usually in whorls of about 16, crowded 
at the top of the tree. Leaves i e 
re iam 
4 in. long and 3 broad, tapering towards their winged base, the ter- 
s obovate, 2 to 24 in. long 
and 2 in. broad.— Parlat. in DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 371. 
Queensland. Brisbane range, N.W. of Moreton bay, Bidwill; between Cleveland 
qr ockingham bays, W. Hill; Condamine, Dawson, and Burnett rivers, Leich- 
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