2432 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART III. 



Commercial Statistics. The price of plants, in the London nurseries, is two 

 guineas each. 



GENUS VI. 



ARAUCA V RIA Ruiz et Pav. THE ARAUCARIA. Lin. Syst. Dice'cia 

 Monadelphia. 



Synonymes. Eutassa Sal., Colymbea Sal., Dombe'ya Lamb., Cupr^ssus Font., the Southern 



Pine. 

 Derivation. From Araucanos, the name of the people in whose country Araucaria imbricata grows 



in Chili. 



Description, $c. Magnificent evergreen trees, natives of South America, 

 Polynesia, and Australia ; one of them, the Araucaria imbricata, as hardy in 

 the climate of Britain as the cedar of Lebanon. 



f 1. A. IMBRICA N TA Pav. The imbricate-leaved Araucaria, or Chili Pine. 



Identification. Pav. Diss. in M?m. Acad. Reg. Med. Mat., 1. p. 197. ; Willd. Sn. PI., 4. p. 850. ; 

 Ait. Hort. Kew., 5. p. 412. ; Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., No. 52. ; Laws. Man., p. 395. 



Synonymes. A. Dombfcyz Rich. Me'm. sur les Conif., p. 86., Lindl. in Penn. Cyc. ; Plnus Araucaria 

 Mol. Sag. sulla Star. Nat. del Chili, p. 182. ; Colymbda quadriftria Salisb in Linn. Trans., 8. p. 315.; 

 Dombeyrt chilensis Lam. Encyc. ; Pino de Chili, Span. ; Peghuen in the Andes : Sir Joseph 

 Banks's Pine. 



The Sexes. There is a tree at Kew which bore female catkins in 1836 ; and a male plant at Boyton, 

 which blossomed in the same year. 



Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., t. 56. and 57. ; Rich. Mem. sur les Conif, t. 20. and 21. ; and our 

 figs. 2286. to 2293. Fig. 2287. is a cone or female catkin in a young state, from Lambert ; fig. 2292. 

 is a specimen of the female tree at Kew ; fig. 2291. is a portion of the male tree with the full- 

 grown catkin, from Lambert's Monograph ; and fig. 2238. is the full-grown female cone ; all to 

 our usual scale, that is, a sixth part of the natural size.. Fig. 2286. is a portion of a cone of the 

 natural size. Fig. 2290. a. is a seed with the scale and wing of the natural size, and b is the kernel ; 

 and^f g. 2289. is a leaf of the natural size. 



Spec. Char. Leaves in eights, imbricated, ovate-lanceolate, with per- 

 sistent mucros. (Pay.) A tree, growing to the height of 150 ft. ; a native 

 of the Cordilleras, in Chili. Introduced in 1796, and flowering from Sep- 

 tember to November. 



Description. Flowers dioecious. Male. Catkin dipsacus- (teasel-) shaped, 

 ovate-cylindrical. Scales numerous, sessile, closely imbricated round a com- 

 mon conical axis ; filament-like, obovate, somewhat woody ; with an oblong 

 reflexed point. Anthers numerous, oblong, 2-celled ; connate a little below 

 the points of the scales, afterwards dependent; free, at first adpressed to the 

 scales, afterwards, having shed their pollen, divaricate. Female. Catkin 

 ovate. Scales numerous, wedge-shaped, 2-flowered. Germen wedge-shaped, 

 compressed in the two opposite sides. Style none. Stigma 2-valved, callous, 

 thick : exterior valve ovate-acuminate, larger, concave, with a linear inflexed 

 point ; interior smaller, somewhat linear, obtuse, erect. Pericarp : cone 

 sphaerico-ovate ; scales connivent, coriaceous and woody, wedge-shaped, 

 terminated by a long awl-shaped point, 2-seeded. Seed : nut wedge-shaped, 

 terminated at the apex by a short, callous, marginal wing, bluntly tetragonal 

 at the base; afterwards gibbous, compressed, with opposite sides: tegument 

 coriaceous. Nucleus of the same figure. (Pavon Dissert, in Mem. Acad. Reg. 

 Med. Matrit.>\. p. 197., as quoted by Lambert.) Cone from Sin. to 8^ in. 

 broad, and from 7 in. to 7^ in. long ; seed 2\ in. long, and | in. broad. 



This is a very remarkable tree, the female of which, according to Pavon, is 

 about 150ft. high ; while the male is seldom more than 40ft. or 50ft. high. 

 The trunk is quite straight, and without knots, with a strong arrow-like leading 

 shoot, pushing upwards. It is covered with double bark, the inner part of 

 which, in old trees, is 5 in. or 6 in. thick ; fungous, tenacious, porous, and 

 light ; and from it, as from almost every other part of the tree, resin flows in 

 great abundance : the outer bark is of nearly equal thickness, resembling cork 



