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Carpels sometimes under the point of a tooth-like ligule, woody, cuneate- 

 prismatic. Endosperm mealy. Cotyledons 2-4. Large evergreen trees 

 with naked buds. Leaves large, scale-like, or short and needle-form, ses- 

 sile with a broad base, and partly decurrent. Fruit ripening in 2 years. 

 Species about 6 : South America and Australasia ; some fossil. 



A. IMBRICATA Pav. 



Branches horizontal or depressed, the ends ascending again. Leaves 

 lanceolate, pungent, stiff, closely imbricate-appressed. Stamens and car- 

 Pels long-pointed. 



South Chili, about 35-40 S. lat., along with Fitzroya patagonica form- 

 ing woods at high altitudes (to 1,000 meters), and yielding both timber 

 and edible seeds. In islands of Lago Nahuelhuapi. 



Dusen describes a fossil Araucaria nathorsti Dus., in the Tertiary at 

 Punta Arenas. Its leaves are like those of A. imbricata, but not long-pun- 

 gent at the apex. The silicified wood of Araucarioxylon schleinitzii 

 Goeppert occurs both in Magellan and on Kerguelen Island. 



Araucarites ovatzis Rollick is fossil in the Cretaceous beds of New 

 New Jersey, U. S. 



Family 2. CUPRESSACE^:. Cypress Family. 



Leaves cyclic in whorls of 2-3-4. Cones woody or fleshy. Seeds i- 

 many in each carpel, usually upright. Stamens 4-5 in a whorl. Pollen 

 not winged. 



1. FITZROYA Hook. f. 



Tree with 3-merous whorls of lanceolate leaves (in the Patagonian 

 species, but a shrub and 2-merous in the Tasmanian). Round small 

 cones having 2-3 pairs of carpels. Upper carpels 3-seeded (no seeds in 

 the lower carpels). 



F. PATAGONICA Hook. f. 



A stately tree with minute spreading lanceolate leaves. 

 N. Patagon. even in swampy woods ; by Valdivia, and Lago Nahuel- 

 huapi. 



2. LIBOCEDRUS Don. 



Trees or shrubs, the leaves 2-whorled (by crowding 4-whorled), of two 

 forms, the front-leaves on the branches small, appressed and scale-like, the 

 side-leaves long with the apex free. Cone woody, having only 4, rarely 



