14 SUPPLEMENT TO THE PINETUM. 



AE-AUCAEI^ — Having the male and female flowers 



ON separate PLANTS, AND AMENTS SOLITARY. 



Gen. Araucaria, Jussieu, with the seeds more or less attached. 



Gen. Dammara, Rumphius, with the seeds free or unattached. 



The Araucarias differ from the true Pines and Firs in having 

 the sexes on separate trees ; in the scales on the cones being one- 

 seeded, and in the seeds being more or less attached to the scales. 

 They, however, approach nearest to the Genus Dammara, in being 

 dioecious ; but differ from them in the form of the leaves and 

 scales on the cones; also in having bracteas to each female 

 flower, and in the seeds being more or less attached to the scales, 

 and not free, as in the Genus Dammara. 



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 Araucaria tmbricata, Pavon, the Chili Pine or Monkey 



Puzzle. 

 Syn. Quadrifaria imbricata, Manetti. 

 Dr. Pceppig says, such is the extent of the Araucarian forest, 

 on the Chilian Andes, and the amazing quantity of nutritious 

 seeds that each full-grown tree produces, that the Indians are 

 ever secure from want ; it yielding to those nomade nations a 

 vegetable substance, that is found in greatest plenty, the more 

 they recede from the whites. The kernels are dried after being 

 boiled, for winter use ; their time of ripening being towards the 

 end of March, at which time the cones break up and fall to 

 pieces, shedding their seeds on the ground, and thus bestowing 

 a great boon on the poor Indians, which nothing but a small 

 parrot divides with them. The Araucanians eat the nuts either 

 fresh, boiled, or roasted, and distil from them a kind of spiri- 

 tuous liquor, and prepare a kind of flour and pastry from them, 

 or dry them for winter store, and for trading to Valparaiso or 

 Lima, where large quantities are consumed annually by the 

 people. And there is but little doubt when the numerous 

 young Araucarias which are now planting, or have been planted 

 in Europe, become large, and arrive at a fruit-bearing state. 



