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clear, smooth, blackish trunk, and depressed, loose, conical head 

 and that the timber is very fine, close-grained, and very 

 durable. 



It is the " Banza-tunza," or "Banya-tunya," of the natives, 

 and is not hardy. 



No. 2. Araucaria Brasiliensis, Richard, the Brazil Arau- 



caria. 

 Syn. Pinus dioica, Arrabida. 

 Colymbea angustifolia, Bertoloni. 

 Brasiliensis, Carriere. 



Leaves linear, lanceolate, quite straight, and entire ; loosely 

 imbricated, and tapering to a very sharp point; from one to two 

 inches long, and a quarter of an inch broad, scattered all round 

 the leading shoots, and spreading ; the older stem ones imbri- 

 cated the reverse way, and remaining on after they become 

 brown, broadest at the base, decurrent, and frequently a little 

 twisted at the base, young ones keeled and glaucous below* 

 light green and shining above. Branches, numerous, mostly in 

 horizontal whorls, lower ones declining, and partly covered 

 with the adult leaves, upper ones ascending, and only divided 

 towards the extremities; branchlets slender, leafy, spreading, 

 undivided, and bending gracefully downwards, the lower ones 

 soon turning brown and falling off. Cones very large, globular, 

 sometimes slightly depressed at the extremities, solitary on the 

 tops of the branches, erect, and without any foot-stalks, six inches 

 long, nearly the same in diameter, and of a yellowish brown 

 colour. Scales thick, compressed, wedge-shaped, oblong, four- 

 sided, and closely placed together, of a firm, corky texture, 

 each terminating in a lanceolate, acute, recurved spine, hollow 

 within at the base on the upper side, and covering a monosper- 

 mous nut, two inches long, covered with a smooth reddish-brown 

 leathery skin. Seeds very large, oblong, eatable, and without 

 any winged appendage. 



A very handsome pyramidal tree, growing from 70 to 100 

 feet high, with a straight stem, covered with tolerably smooth 



