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ATlBORETU.ir ET FRUTICETUM 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. 



i- 1. A. imbricaVa Pav. The imhY\cate-leaved Araucaria, or Chili Pine. 



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



Synonymes. A. Domb6j7' Kich. Mem. sur les Conif. p. 8ti. ; Pinus Araucaria Mol. Sag. sulla Star. 

 N^at. del Chili, p. 182. ; Colymbda quadrifaria Salisb. in Linn. Trans. 8. p. 31.5. ; Dombdj-a chi- 

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



77(1' Sexes. There is a tree at Kew which bore female catkins in 1838 ; and a male plant at Boyton 

 which blossomed in the same year. 



Eufrravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., t. 50. and .57. ; Rich. Mi'm. sur les Conif., t. 20. and 21. ; and our 

 Jigs. 1978. to 1986. Fig 1979. is a cone or female catkin in a youn^ state, from Lambert ; fig. 1984. 

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

 catkin, from Lambert's Monograph s and fig. 1980. is the full-grown female cone ; all to our usual 



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3978. A.imbriciila. 



