26 ARAUCARIA. 



The Timber is hard and durable, yellowish white, fibrous, and 

 beautifully veined, capable of receiving a high polish, and easily 

 worked, but heavy. 



The tree is full of a milky-white resin, and the Araucano 

 Indians eat the nuts either fresh, boiled, or roasted, and distil 

 from them a kind of spirituous liquor, or dry and prepare a kind 

 of flour and pastry from them, or dry them for trading at Con- 

 cepcion or Valdivia; from whence they find their way to 

 Valparaiso and Lima. It is the ' Pehuen ' or Monkey-puzzle 

 of the Chilians, no animal of that kind attempting to climb the 

 trees. 



There are several seedling varieties distinguished in the nur- 

 series, but such differences are only retained while young, with 

 the exception of the variegated variety. 



Araucaria imbricata variegata. 



A very striking variety, with pale, straw-coloured leaves, and 

 occasionally the young shoots intermixed with the ordinary 

 deep-shining green ones. 



It originated in Mr. Glendinning's Nursery, at Turnham 

 Green, and is quite unique. 



Section. II. EUTACTA, Link. The needle-leaved or 



FALSE ArAUCARIAS. 



Cones, small, terminal, and globular. 



Scales, broadly winged, and more or less persistent. 



Seeds, visibly fastened at the base. 



Seed-leaves, in 4, and developed above ground. 



Leaves, on the young plants unequal shaped, and small. 



Large trees, natives of Australasia. 



