22 DICTIONARY OF POPULAR NAMES ARBOR 



wether, it is apparently a more slender tree. It was introduced 

 in 1819. 



A. Bidwillii, a native of Queensland, where it forms exten- 

 sive forests in the interior. Its nuts form an important 

 article of food to the natives, who call the tree the Bunya 

 Bunya, and who migrate to the forest at the season when the 

 nuts are perfect, each tribe or family having allotted to them a 

 certain number of trees, which are retained from year to year, 

 and any one taking nuts from trees not their own are punished. 

 It was feared that in time they would be deprived of this 

 important article of food by the settlers cutting down the trees. 

 To prevent this, the Government have deemed it necessary to 

 take the forests under their charge, and appoint an inspector. 

 The leaves of these three species are rigid, rusciform, and openly 

 imbricate. In the following the leaves are flat, awl-shaped, and 

 imbricate, characteristic of spruce firs. 



A. Ciinninghamii, called Moreton Bay Pine, first observed 

 by Allan Cunningham in 1826, in the country now called 

 Queensland, and found abundantly on many parts of the coast 

 and adjacent islands. 



A. excelsa, called Norfolk Island Pine, native of that 

 island. In the early settlement trees were found 200 to 250 

 feet high. It was introduced to the Pioyal Gardens, Kew, in 

 1793. 



A. CooJcii, native of the Isle of Pines, New Caledonia. It 

 was discovered by Captain Cook in his second voyage of 

 discovery in the South Seas, and introduced to Kew in 1858. 

 According to Cook's account this is probably the tallest species 

 of the genus. 



A. Rulei, also a taU tree native of New Caledonia. Dis- 

 covered by William Duncan, a gardener in the service of Mr. 

 Eule of Melbourne, whose name it bears.- Introduced 1860. 



Arbor Vitae, the common garden name for the species of 

 Thuja, a genus of the Cupressus section of the Pine family 

 (Coniferae). T. orientalis and T. occidentalis are well known in 

 this country as bushy shrubs, sometimes becoming tree-like, 20 



