28 ARAUCARIA. 



on the full-grown trees lanceolate, acute, imbricated, curved, 

 awl-shaped, shorter, wider at the base, and reclining on the 

 principal branches and stem. Branches, in horizontal whorls 

 of from 6 to 8 in number, spreading out straight, or slightly- 

 ascending when young, but bending downwards when old ; 

 branchlets, distant and alternate. Male catkins, solitary, cylin- 

 drical, terminal, 3 inches long, and about the thickness of the 

 middle finger. Cones, ovate, S inches long, and nearly the same 

 in thickness, terminal on the upper branchlets, and without 

 footstalks. Scales, wedge-shaped, numerous, thick, leathery, 

 membranaceous, winged on the margins, and wavy ; half an inch 

 broad, and terminated by a linear, awl-shaped, recurved, stiff, 

 spiny point, one third the length of the scale, seeds flattened, 

 and appearing as if concealed within the scales, which they 

 resemble. 



A large tree, growing from 100 to 130 feet high, and 14 or 15 

 feet in girth, with a clear stem, 80 feet high, and rather thin, 

 loose head, found forming vast forests along the shores of More- 

 ton Bay, and on the alluvial banks of the Brisbane river in 

 Australia. 



There are the following varieties. 



Araiicaria Cunninghamii glauca, Antoine. 

 Syn. Araucaria glauca, Loddiges. 



This differs from the species in nothing except in the glaucous 

 colour of its leaves and young shoots. It is a very striking 

 variety, and was imported by Loddiges, some years ago, from 

 Moreton Bay. 



Araucaria Cunninghamii longifolia, Antoine. 



This variety has much longer and straighter leaves than the 

 species, and is altogether a more robust tree. 



