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THE GENUS HR AUG ARIA, 



A. L. de Jussieu, Gen. Plant. 413 (]789). 



I. HISTORICAL. 



This genus was established by Jussieu in 1789, and its original name has 

 found general acceptance with systematists from that time. 



It has a fairly extensive geographical range, extending as it does over 

 extra-tropical and subtropical South America, the South Sea Islands, New Zealand 

 and North-eastern Australia, from which latter locality only two species have 

 been recorded. 



. Fossil Araucaria, A. Johnstonii, F.v.M. 

 [Rep. Min. Surv. and Reg. Victoria, 1879.] 



Close connection with existing trees has been established by fossil forms 

 occurring in Australia in the Pliocene period, as recorded by Baron von Mueller 

 in Rep. Mining Surv. and Registrars, September, 1879, under the name of A. 



