298 ARAUCARIA IMBRICATA. 



into a lanceolate, acuminate, tail-like appendage nearly an inch long, 



and bearing one seed that is adnate to the scale. Seeds large, 



wingless, obscurely four-angled, about an inch long with a thick 

 chestnut-brown testa. 



Araucaria imbricata, PaA-on in Mem. Acad. Madr. I. 197 (1795). Lambert, 

 Genus Pimis, II. 9, t. 4 (1824). London, Arb. et Frut. Brit. IV. 2432, with figs. 

 Endlicher, Synops. Conif. 186. Gay, Fl. Chil. V. 415. Forbes, Pinet. Woburn, 

 103, tt. 55, 56. Gordon, Pinet. ed. II. 39. Lawson, Pinet. Brit. I. 99, tt. 55, 

 56. Beissner, Nadelholzk. 199, with figs. Masters in Gard. Chron. VII. ser. 3 

 (1890), p. 587, with figs. ; and Jonrn. R. Hort. Soc. XIV. 198. 



Dombeya chilensis, Lamarck, Diet. II. 301 (1786).* 



Colymbea imbricata, Carriere, Traite Conif. ed. II. 598. 



Eng. Chile Pine, Monkey Puzzle. Germ. Chileiiische Araukarie, Schmucktahne. 



Fig. 89. Staminate flower of Aravcaria imbrimta. 

 Nat. size. 



The native home of Araucaria imbricata is in southern Chile ; 

 the precise limits of its distribution are not accurately known, but 

 may be stated approximately to be between the 38th and 45th 

 parallels of south latitude. In the northern portion of its range, 

 it is confined to the higher western slopes of the Andes, always in 

 proximity to the snow-line, forming a belt of forest immediately 

 below it. Further south it descends lower down, and the area over 

 which it is spread gradually widens till its southern limit is reached 

 where it approaches the Pacific coast. 



* Lamarck's generic name, Dombeya, bad been previously taken up for a group of 

 Sterculiaceous shrubs chiefly African. 



