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leaves, and short, stubby branchlets. Its height is about 3 

 or 4 feet. 



Tar, argcntcis, London. This author says the leaves 

 of this variety are of a silvery hue on both sides, and 

 Gordon says, contrast well in old trees with the more 

 common form with green foliage. 



Var. pendllla, JZnight. Gordon says, "This variety 

 has slenderer and more pendulous branches than the com- 

 mon Cedar of Lebanon." 



4. CUtf NIXCJHAmA, ft. Brown. 



Flowers, rnonrecious, on different branches ; male aments, 

 terminal, in dense clusters, and numerous, with the stamens 

 closely imbricated at first, but finally more separated, and 

 the anthers with a slender, filiform footstalk, expanded at 

 the apex into a pointed, yellowish, semi-orbicular scale or 

 appendix ; female aments, solitary, or clustered, terminal, 

 sessile, pale yellow. Cones, smallish, globose, or ovate, 

 and persistent. Scales, small, (scarcely perceptible); with 

 large, coriaceous, serrulated bracts. Seeds, three, attached 

 to the base of a scale, ovate elliptical, Avith a membran- 

 aceous wing. 



This genus contains but one species, which closely re- 

 sembles the Araucaria in general appearance, but is very 

 distinct botanically. According to London, it was " named 

 by Mr. Brown in honor of Mr. James Cunningham, an 

 excellent observer in his time, by whom this plant was 

 discovered; and in honor 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." 



A curious feature in the morphology of the cones of 



