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t >. A. BRASILIA'NA Rich. The Brazil Aruucaria, or Brazil Pine. 



Identification. Richard in Diet. Class. d'Hist. Nat, 1. p. 152. ; Mem. sur les Conif., p. 154. ; Lamb. 



Pin., i-d. 2., t. 58, 59, 60. ; Lawson's Manual, p. 396. 

 Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 2. t. 58, 59, 60. ; our figs. 2295. and 229G. to our [usual scale ; and 



fin. 'A'!>4. of the natural size. 

 Tke .sVjv.y. It is uncertain whether both are in Britain or only one ; only a male plant, at Boyton, 



having flowered in 1836. 



. Char., $c. Leaves loosely imbricated, lanceolate, mucronate, glaucous 

 green, keeled beneath. Female catkins roundish-oval; scales recurved at 



the apex. (Lamb. Pin.) A large tree, a native of the Brazils. Introduced 

 in 1819, requiring protection during winter, or a green-house. 

 Description, $c. A tree, in general appearance and size, like A. imbricata ; 

 but much more loose and spreading. Branches numerous, leafy, approximate, 

 sometimes almost verticillate ; branchlets, in the young trees, flexible, spread- 

 ing, twiggy, round, covered with a green smooth bark. 

 Leaves lanceolate, mucronate, quite entire, a little car- 

 tilaginous, much more loose, and three times thinner 

 than in A. imbricata ; somewhat pliant, smooth ; con- 

 cave above, light green, and shining ; beneath glaucous 

 and keeled; Hn. to 2 in. long, in. broad; marked 

 on both sides, but especially on the lower, with many 

 dotted lines ; scattered on the young tree, spreading, VB^ 

 linear-lanceolate, attenuated, 2 in. long, scarcely 2 lines 

 broad. Male catkins not yet known. Female, 

 roundish-ovate, solitary on the apex of the branches, 

 -t- ile, similar in size and appearance to the heads of 

 flowers of/h'psacus sylvestris; scales thick, compressed, wedge-shaped-oblong, 

 quadrangular, of a firm corky substance, closely placed together above a conico- 

 cylindrical receptacle, each terminated by a lanceolate, acute, recurved ap- 



