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ARBORETUM ET FKUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, evergreen; imbricate. Trees of 

 magnificent dimensions, and evergreen ; natives of South America, Poly- 

 nesia, and Australia ; only one of which, the Araucaria imbricata, is hardy 

 in the climate of Britain. 



1 1. A. IMBRICA^TA Pav. The imbricate-leaved Araucaria, or Chili Pine. 



Identification. Pav. Diss. in Mem. Acad. Reg. Med. Mat., 1. p. 197. 



Synonymes. A. Dombdyz Rich. Mem. sur les Conif. p. 8U. ; Plnus Araucaria Mol. Sag. sulla Sior. 

 Nat. del Chili, p. 182. ; Colymbea quadrifaria Salisb. in Linn. Tram. 8. p. 315. ; Dombdya chi- 

 lensis Lam. Encyc. ; Pino de Chili, Span. ; Peghuen, in the Andes ; Sir Joseph Banks's Pine. 

 The Sexes. There is a tree at Kew which bore female catkins in 1836 ; and a male plant at Boyton 



which blossomed in the same year. 



Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., t. 5S. and 57. ; Rich. M<?m. sur les Conif., t. 20. and 21. ; and our 

 figs. 1978. to 1986. Fig 1979. is a cone or female catkin in a young state, from I^ambert ; Jig. 1984. 

 ic female tree at Kew ; fig. 1983. is a portion of the male tree with the full-grown 



is a specimen of the fe 



catkin, from Lambert's Monograph ; am 



fig. 1980. is the full-grown female cone ; all to our usual 



