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can be spared; nevertheless, mention should be made of some of the larger 

 trees of known repute, and of these the first place must be given to 

 the superb specimen at Dropmore, the subject of the illustration and 

 still the finest in the country. Closely approaching it in dimensions " are 

 trees at Tortworth Court, Gloucestershire ; Trevarrick, Cornwall ; Revesby 

 Abbey, Lincolnshire ; Howick Hall, Northumberland ; Chaddlewood, south 

 Devon ; Piltdown, Sussex ; Thornhill Park, Hants ; Wansfell Holme, 

 Cumberland; Drumlanrig, Dumfries-shire; Dunkeld, Perthshire ; Cultoquhey, 

 Dupplin Castle and Keir House in the same county ; Gordon Castle, 

 Morayshire ; Castlewellan, Co. Down ; Fota Island, Cork ; Hamwood, Co. 

 Meath ; Curraghmore, Waterford ; Woodstock, Kilkenny ; and many more. 



Araucaria Bidwilli. 



A lofty tree attaining 100 150 feet in height with a stout trunk 

 usually denuded of branches for half the height. Branches in whorls 

 of ten fifteen with distichous ramification. Leaves in crowded spires, 

 lanceolate, acute, 0'75 1'5 inch long, sub-sessile, shortly decurrent and 

 slightly twisted at the base which brings them into a pseudo-distichous 

 position, coriaceous and rigid, dark lustrous green above, keeled beneath. 

 Staminate flowers cylindric, 2 3 inches long, the imbricated connectives 

 of the stamens triangular. Cones the largest in the genus, erect on 

 , the topmost branches, ovoid-globose, about 9 inches long and 7 inches 

 in diameter, composed of spirally arranged, loosely imbricated scales of 

 obovate-cuneate shape, about 3 '5 inches long with a lenticular thickening 

 at the apex and terminating in an acute edge. 



Araucaria Bidwilli, Hooker, W. in Lond. Journ. Bot. II. 503, tt. 18, 19 (1843). 



Bentham, Fl. Austral. VI. 243 (Bunya-Bunya). 



South Queensland, between the rivers Brisbane and Burnett; introduced 

 about the year 1840. It commemorates Mr. J. T. Bidwill, one of 

 the earlier botanical e'xplorers of Australia and Xew Zealand. 



Araucaria brasiliensis. 



A tree 70 80 feet high, in old age with a large irregular head of 

 spreading or sub-pendent branches with the branchlets and foliage more 

 or less tufted at the distal end. Branches in whorls of five seven 

 and ramified distichously. Leaves persistent several years ; on young 

 trees narrowly lanceolate, often falcately curved, 1*5 2 '5 inches long, 

 prolonged into a pungent acuminate tip ; shorter and broader on the 

 fertile branches and on old trees, dark lustrous green with an obscure 

 median keel above, paler and stomatiferous beneath. Staminate flowers 

 solitary or two three together, cylindric, obtuse, 4 5 inches long and 

 - 75 inch in diameter. Cones sub-globose or ovoid-globose, 5 6 inches 

 in diameter ; scales cuneate-oblong, of corky texture, with a rhomboidal 

 thickening at the apex and terminating in a recurved spine. 



Araucaria brasiliensis, A. Richard in Diet. d'Hist. Nat. I. 512 (brasiliana). 



London, Arb. et Frat. Brit. IV. 2439, with figs. Parlatore, D. C. Prodr. 



XVI. 370. And others. 



Mountains of southern Brazil in the provinces of Sao Paolo and 

 Minas Geraes up to 3,000 feet elevation, in places forming forests 

 of considerable extent. Introduced into Europe in 1819. Much 

 cultivated along the Mediterranean littoral of France and Italy. 



