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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



pendage, hollow within at the base of 

 the upper side, and furnished with a 

 young monospermous nut. Nut, in 

 size and colour, like the preceding. 

 (Lainb.) The Araucaria brasiliana 

 forms a tree from 70 ft. to 100 ft. high. 

 It bears considerable resemblance to 

 A. imbricata ; but the leaves are larger 

 and less rigid ; they are also much less 

 closely imbricated, and are somewhat 

 reflexed. The tree, when full grown, 

 has a large " irregular head, with hori- 

 zontal, pendulous, and aspiring branch- 

 es, at the extremities of which the 

 branchlets are collected into tufted 

 masses. The cones are rather smaller, 

 more compact, and harder than those 

 of A. imbricata; from which they 

 differ in the scales being thick, and 

 furnished with small, sharp, recurved -~9o 



spines on their points." A. brasiliana grows much more rapidly than A. 

 imbricata; a tree at Dropmore, 10 years planted, being, in 1836, 1 1 ft. 6 in. 

 high, while one of A. imbricata, standing near it, and 13 years planted, was 

 only 8 ft. high. It is, however, much more tender than A. imbricata, and will 

 not stand the winter in the climate of London without protection. Accord- 

 ing to the Dicliomiaire C/assique d' Hisfoire Natiirelle, torn. i. p. 512., this tree 

 forms immense forests between the provinces of Minos Geraes and Saom- 

 Paulo, to the north of Rio Janeiro. It was introduced into England in 1819, 

 by Mr. Lee of the Hammersmith Nursery, who received a cone from Rio de 

 Janeiro, and raised some plants from the seeds. It was at first supposed 

 to be the same as A. imbricata, but M. A. Richard, in the Dictionnaire Classique, 

 &c., published in 1822, states that he considers it a separate species, and 

 that he has given it the name of A. brasiliana; adding that it differs from A. 

 imbricata in the whiteness and softness of its wood, and in the disposition 

 of its branches ; but that its principal botanical distinction is, that it is 

 entirely without any winged appendage to its fruit, as shown at a in Jig. 

 2294. (See, also, Mem. siir les Conif., p. 154., published in 1826 ; and Lamb. 

 Ge7i. Pin., ed. 2., ii. t. 58., published in 1832.) The nuts, which have very 

 little resin, are sold as an article of food in the market of Rio de Janeiro ; 

 and the resin, which exudes from the trunk of the tree, is mixed with wax to 

 make candles. Seeds are frequently sent to England ; but they will seldom 

 vegetate unless sent over in the cone. It propagates freely from cuttings ; 

 and Mr. Lambert has now several plants raised in that manner. In Britain, 

 it can only be considered as fit for the green-house ; though in the Horticultural 

 Society, and at Dropmore, Woburn, Cheshunt, and various other places, there 

 are plants in the open ground, from 3 ft. to 10 ft. high, which, however, are 

 protected during winter, so as to exclude the frost. The plant in the Hor- 

 ticultural Society's Garden, after being 3 years planted, is 5 ft. high ; that at 

 Dropmore, the largest plant, was, in 1837, 12 ft. high. 



f 3. A. exce'lsa Ait. The lofty Araucaria, or Norfolk Island Pine. 



Identification. Ait. in Hort. Kew, ed. 2., 5. p. 412. ; Rich. Mem. sur les Conifferes, p. 154. ; Lamb. 



Gen. Pin., ed. 2., 2. t. 61, 62. ; Lindl. in Penn. Cyc. ; Lawson's Manual, p. 396. 

 Synoni/mes. Eutassa heterophylla Sal. in Lin. Trans., 8. p. 316. ; Cupr^.ssus columnaris, &c., Forst. 



Fl. Ins. Aust. ; Dombeya excelfa Lamb. Monog., ed. 1., p. 87. t S9, 40. ; Altingia excelsa Loud. 



Hort. Brit., p. 403. ; Pin de Norfolk, Fr. 

 Engravings. Lamb. Mon.,;t. 39, 40., Pin., t. 61, 62. ; and our figs. 2297. to 2302. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Adult leaves closely imbricated, bent inwards, mutic. {Ait.) 

 A lofty tree, a native of Norfolk Island and New Caledonia. Introduced in 

 1793; and requiring protection during winter, or to be kept in a green- 

 house ; being still more tender than A. brasiliana. 



