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in Britain, that young plants 

 sometimes remain a whole year 

 without making any shoot what- 

 ever ; and that, at other times, 

 the same plants require two 

 years to perfect one shoot, that 

 is, the shoot continues slowly 

 increasing in length from the 

 midsummer of one year to that 

 of the year following. The 

 treatment of this tree, when 

 raised from seeds, may be con- 

 sidered in all respects the same 

 as that of the cedar ; regard 

 being had to the different size 

 of the seeds, which will, of 

 course, require a thicker cover- 

 ing. Abundance of seeds have 

 lately been imported, from which 

 many young plants have been 

 raised, and extensively distri- 

 buted. Fig. 1986. shows the 

 manner in which the seeds ger- 

 minate ; , the first appearance 

 of the radicle ; b, the plumular, 

 or young, shoot, in an advanced 

 state. 



A. brasiliana Rich., A. ex- 

 celsa Ait., and A. Cunninghams 

 Ait., are half-hardy species, 

 which will be found described 

 at length, accompanied by nu- 

 merous figures, in our first 

 edition, p. 1440. to p. 1445. 



1986. A. imbric&to. 



GENUS VII. 



CUNNINGHA V M/J R. Br. THE CUNNINGHAMIA. Lin. Syst. Monce % cia 



Monadelphia. 



Synonymes. Pinus Lamb., Belis Saifsb. 



Derivation. Named, by Mr. Brown, in honour of Mr. James Cunningham, " an excellent observer 

 in his time, by whom this plant was discovered ; and in honour of Mr. Allan Cunningham, the 

 very deserving botanist who accompanied Mr. Oxley in his first expedition into the interior of 

 New South Wales, and Captain King in all his voyages of survey of the coast of New Holland." 

 (Bot. Mag., t. 2743.) 



Gen. Char. Male flowers in grouped catkins. Pollen contained in 3 cases 

 that depend from the scale. Female with 3 ovules. Strobile ovate. 



Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, evergreen ; solitary, scattered in 

 insertion, more or less 2-ranked in direction ; flat, acuminate, and serrulate. 

 Only one species has been discovered, which is an evergreen moderate- 

 sized tree, a native of China. 



l.C. SINE'NSIS Rich. The Chinese Cunninghamia, or broad-leaved 

 Chinese Fir. 



Identification. Rich. Conif., p. 149. t. 18. ; Lamb. Pin., ed2., 2. t. 53. 



Synonymes. Bfilis jaculifblia Satisb. in Lin. Trans. 8. p. 316. ; Plnus lanceolata Lamb. Moncg. 

 ed. 1. t. 34. ; Cunuinghamm lanceolata R. Br. ; Araucaria lanceolata Hort, 



