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pointed, leafy-like appendage. The ovula are constantly two, according to M. Pavon. Baron LangsdorfF the 

 Russian Consul General in the Brazils was so kind as to send me some years ago a few seeds of the 

 Brazilian Pine, from which I was fortunate in rmsing one plant, which is now eight feet high and very luxuriant. 

 It propagates freely by cuttings, and in that way I have obtained since, many young plants, from that tree. 

 Mr. Lee, some yeai-s ago, succeeded in raising several hundreds from seed, which he obtained from the Brazds, 

 several of them are now from six to eight feet high. He also received an entire cone, which I was not fortu- 

 nate enough to see ; but from the description he gave me of it, it appears to have been of nearly the same shape 

 and size with the Qiih Pine, and like it, drooping. The nuts seldom succeed when sown, unless those obtained 

 with the entire cone. They are sold as an article of food in the streets of Eio de Janeiro. The specimen from 

 which our drawing was taken is in the possession of Dr. Sims who kindly lent it me. It was collected in the 

 Brazils by Mr. Sello a naturalist in the service of the king of Prussia. 



A. 



B, 



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Branch of the female tree, with two young cones. 

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