CHAP. CXIII. 



CONI FERjE. ARAUCA RIA. 



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1 2. A. BRASILIA^NA Rich. The Brazil Araucaria, or Brazil Pine. 

 Identification. Richard in Diet. Class. d'Hist. Nat., 1. p. 152. ; Mem. sur les Conif., p. 154. ; Lamb. 



Pin., ed. 2., t. 58, 59, 60. ; Lawson's Manual, p. 396. 

 Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 2. t. 58, 59, 60. ; our figs. 2295. and 2296. to our ^usual scale ; and 



fig. 2294. of the natural size. 

 The Sexes. It is uncertain whether both are in Britain or only one ; only a male plant, at Boyton, 



having flowered in 1836. 



Spec. Char., 8fc. Leaves loosely imbricated, lanceolate, mucronate, glaucous 

 green, keeled beneath. Female catkins roundish-oval; scales reciu'ved at 



the apex. (Lamb. Pin.) A large tree, a native of the Brazils. Introduced 

 in 1819, requiring protection during winter, or a green-house. 

 Description, ^c. A tree, in general appearance and size, like A. imbricata ; 

 but much more loose and spreading. Branches numerous, leafy, approximate, 

 sometimes almost verticillate ; branchlets, in the young trees, flexible, spread- 

 ing, twiggy, round, covered with a green smooth bark. 

 Leaves lanceolate, mucronate, quite entire, a little car- 

 tilaginous, much more loose, and three times thinner 

 than in A. imbricata ; somewhat pliant, smooth ; con- 

 cave above, light green, and shining ; beneath glaucous 

 and keeled ; 1 in. to 2 in. long, i in. broad ; marked 

 on both sides, but especially on the lower, with many 

 dotted lines ; scattered on the young tree, spreading, 

 linear-lanceolate, attenuated, 2 in. long, scarcely 2 lines 

 broad. Male catkins not yet known. Female, 

 roundish-ovate, solitary on the apex of the branches, 

 sessile, similar in size and appearance to the heads of 2295 



flowers ofDipsacus sylvestris; scales thick, compressed, wedge-shaped-oblong, 

 quadrangular, of a firm corky substance, closely placed together above a conico- 

 cylindrical receptacle, each terminated by a lanceolate, acute, recurved ap- 



