42 ARAUCARIA. 



Araucaria. Imbricata Variegata. 



A striking variety, with pale straw-coloured leaves, and 

 occasionally the young shoots intermixed with the ordinary 

 deep-shining green ones. 



It originated in Mr. Glendinning's nursery at Turnham Green. 



No. 4. Araucaria Kulei, Mueller, Mr. Rule's Araucaria. 



Syn. Eutacta Rulei, Verlot. 

 Muelleri, Carriere. 



Rulei polymorpha, Carriere. 



Leaves from one half to two-thirds of an inch long, lanceolate, 

 closely imbricated, and of a deep glossy green, and although 

 acute pointed, not pungent. Branches numerous, rigid, much 

 divided, and symmetrical. Cones nearly globular, with the 

 scales an inch or more broad, and furnished with projecting, 

 narrow, lance-shaped points an inch long. 



A fine bushy-headed tree, growing about 50 feet high, with 

 the branches extending 30 feet in diameter, very rigid, 

 tabular-formed, and six times more numerous than those on 

 the Chili Pine (Araucaria imbricata), the whole of the branches 

 being covered with beautiful dark glossy green leaves, closely 

 and multifariously imbricated. It is found on one of the islets 

 near New Caledonia, covering the summit of an extinct lofty 

 volcano, and growing in the debris, which is as hard as adamant 

 in summer, and deluged with rain in winter. It attains a less 

 gigantic size than any of its congeners, and in habit bears more 

 resemblance to the Chilian Araucaria imbricata than the 

 Australian one called Bidwillii, from which it especially differs 

 in its foliage, which, although acute, is not pungent or 

 striolated. 



This kind belongs to the true Araucarias, and was named 

 by Dr. Mueller, of Melbourne, in compliment to Mr. John 

 Rule, a nurseryman at Victoria, in Southern Australia. It 

 will be found quite tender for the open air during an English 

 winter. 



