46 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



Araucaria Bidwilli, Hooker.* 



Queensland. Bunya-Bunya. A tree, attaining 250 feet in height, 

 with a fine-grained, hard and durable wood, particularly valuable 

 for furniture ; it shows its beautiful streaks best when polished. 

 The seeds are large and edible. Growth in height at Port Phillip 

 30-40 feet in 20 years, the big strobiles ripening there. 



Auraucaria Brasiliensis, A. Richard.* 



Southern Brazil. A tree to 180 feet high, producing edible 

 seeds. Dr. Saldanha da Gama reports, that the wood makes splendid 

 boards, masts and spars, and that the tree also yields a good deal 

 of turpentine. Except a few palms (Mauritia, Attalea, Copernicia), 

 this seems the only tree, which in Tropical South- America forms 

 forests by itself [Martins]. 



Araucaria Cookii, E. Brown. 



New Caledonia and New Hebrides. Height of tree to 

 200 feet. Technical value similar to that of A. excelsa, habit more 

 columnar. Growth at Port Phillip not quite 30 feet in 20 years. 



Araucaria Cunningham!, Alton.* 



"Moreton-Bay Pine." Eastern Australia, between 14 and 32 

 south latitude, extending* also to the highlands of New Guinea. 

 The tree attains a height of 200 feet, with a trunk 6 feet in 

 diameter. Growth in height at Port Phillip 30 to 40 feet in 20 

 years. The timber is fine-grained, strong and durable, if not 

 exposed to alternately dry and wet influences ; it is susceptible of 

 a high polish, and thus competes with satin-wood, and in some 

 respects with birdseye-maple. Value in Brisbane, 2 15s. to 

 3 10s. per 1,000 superficial feet. The tree grows on alluvial banks 

 as well as on rugged mountains, overtopping all other trees. The 

 resin, which exudes from it, has almost the transparency and white- 

 ness of crystal, and is often pendent in the shape of icicles, which 

 are sometimes 3 feet long and 6 to 12 inches broad [W. Hill]. 

 Araucarias should be planted by the million in fever-regious of 

 tropical countries for hygienic purposes, on account of their anti- 

 septic exhalations. 



Araucaria excelsa, E. Brown.* 



" Norfolk-Island Pine." A magnificent tree of unsurpassed sym- 

 metry, sometimes 220 feet high, with a stem attaining 10 feet in 

 diameter, and with regular tiers of absolutely horizontal branches, 

 'one for each year. The timber is useful for ship-building and 

 many other purposes. Growth in height at Port Phillip about 40 

 feet in 20 years. With A. Cunninghami amenable to almost any 

 soil, except a saline one, and not subject to any disease. Endures 

 also the vicissitudes of the clime of Lower Egypt. Resists sea- 



