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by stiff, recurved appendages. Seeds bright brown, up to 2 in, 

 long, f in. wide and ^ in. thick, 



Var. Saviana, Parlatore. 

 Differs from the type by its narrower, glaucous leaves. 



A. brasiliana is alhed to A. imhricata, but is readily known 

 by its softer and more loosely arranged leaves. 



It is a native of the mountains of Brazil and the Argentine. 



The wood is yellowish, soft, straight-grained, and suitable for 

 joinery and carpentry, particularly for the indoor finish of houses, 

 box making, paper pulp, etc. The supply will probably not 

 exceed the demand of S. America. A. brasiliana cannot be 

 grown out of doors in the British Isles except in the mildest 

 places, and even there it is not very successful. It would prob- 

 ably give good results in selected places in S. Africa, 



Martius, Flora Brasiliensis, t. 110-111-112 {18G3). 



Araucaria Cookii, R, Brown, 

 Cook's Araucaria. 



A tree up to 200 ft. high, with the peculiar habit of shedding 

 its lower branches and replacing them by short shoots from 

 adventitious buds, producing the effect of a dense green column 

 which suddenly widens out within a short distance of the apex. 

 Branches horizontal, lateral branchlets long, slender, whiplike. 

 Outer baric shredding off in thin papery layers. Leaves on juvenUe 

 shoots triangular or lance-shaped, up to | in. long, pointed ; 

 on older shoots broadly ovate, r\-¥ in. long, \ in. wide, rigid, 

 closely overlapping and curving inwards, the whole suggesting 

 a neatly plaited cord. Male catkins 1-2| in. long, |-| in. wide, 

 set in a cuplike arrangement of leaves. Cone elUptical, up to 

 6 in. long and 4| in. wide, teasel-like when partly developed 

 owing to the scale appendages ; scales about \\ in. across, with 

 a central seed margined by well-developed wings, each \ in. wide ; 

 terminal spine about \ in. long. 



Var. aurea. 

 Foliage golden, 



Var, luxurians. 

 More vigorous than the type, foliage more compact and even. 



Var. rigida. 



Leaves stiffer and more rigid than in the type. 



A. Cookii is aUied to A. excelsa, but differs in its more compact 

 foHage and less plumose habit. It is a native of New Caledonia, 

 Polynesia, and the Isle of Pines, and was discovered in the latter 



