192 FOREST CULTURE AND 
I.—CONIFEROUS TREES. 
Araucaria Bidwilli, Hook.—Bunya-Bunya. South- 
ern Queensland. A tree one hundred and fifty feet 
in height, with a fine-grained, hard, and durable wood ; 
the seeds are edible. : 
Arauearia Brasiliensis, A. Rich. — Brazilian Pine. 
A tree, one hundred feet high, producing edible seeds. 
Ought to be tried in our fern gullies. 
Araucaria Cookii, R, Br.—In New Caledonia, where 
it forms large forests. Height of tree, two hundred 
feet. 
Araucaria Cunninghami, Ait.—Moreton-Bay Pine. 
East Australia, between fourteen degrees and thirty- 
five degrees 8. latitude. The tree gets one hundred 
and thirty feet high. The timber is used for ordinary 
furniture. 
Araucaria excelsa, R. Br.—Norfolk Island Pine. -— 
A magnificent tree, sometimes two hundred and twen- 
ty feet high, with a stem attaining ten feet in diame- 
ter. The timber is useful for ship-building and many 
other purposes. 
Araucaria imbricata, Pay.—Chile and Patagonia. 
The male tree attains only a height of fifty feet, but 
the female reaches one hundred and fifty feet. It 
furnishes a hard and durable timber, as well as an 
abundance of edible seeds, which constitute a main 
article of food of the natives. Highteen good trees 
will yield enough for a man’s sustenance all the year 
round. In our lowlands of comparative slow growth, 
but likely of far more rapid development, if planted 
in our ranges. 
Callitris quadrivalvis, Vent. — North Africa. A 
middling-sized tree, yielding the true Sandarac resin. 
