92 riNACE^. 



Flowers, male and female, in most species on separate plants, yet, in 

 some species on the same plant, but separate. 



Leaves, from half an inch to six inches long, lanceolate, ovate, flat, 

 broad, awl-shaped, and generaRy sharp-pointed, imbricated, spreading, 

 rigid, and perennial or evergreen ; and of the very richest shades and 

 tints of light or dark green, more or less glaucous, glossy, or shining 

 and polished, while in a few of the species they are, particularly when 

 old, of a dark sombre brown or rusty colour. 



Cones, generally large, but ranging from one to nine inches long, 

 singly or in clusters, globular or spherical in form and generally 

 terminal ; seeds large and numerous, sometimes three hundred in a 

 cone of some of the species, some of which are large, nutritious, and 

 good for and used as food ; some species have winged and some 

 wingless seeds, while some are free and some attached. 



§ 1. ArauCARIA: The Chilian Wax Pine. 



So named from the prototype, hnbricata, being found in such large 

 numbers as to form vast forests on the Chilian Andes, where the 

 Araucanians use its seeds as food. 



Flowers, male and female, on separate plants. 



Leaves, from half an inch to two inches long ; scale-like, persistent, 

 and broadest at base, in some species awl-shaped, in others linear or 

 lanceolate; in some alternate, others somewhat two-rowed, and some 

 in whorls and imbricated, some round, some needle-shaped, others fiat, 

 straight, smooth, and very sharp-pointed ; some dark green, some 

 light green, some shining, others glaucous. 



Cones, those of the broad-leaved species are large, from six to nine 

 inches long, and nearly as broad as long; seeds from one to three inches 

 long, and about half as broad as long. Those of the needle-leaved species 

 are smaller, from three to six inches long, and nearly as broad as long. 



ArauCARIA BidwilLI: Bidwell's Araucaria. 



This kind is a quasi-species of the broad-leaved Chilian, differing 

 from its congeners in the disposition of its leaves, which are from one- 

 and-a-half to two inches long on young plants, and generally disposed 

 in two rows on the shoots; while they are from one-half to one inch long 

 on adults, those on the stems alternate, those on the branchlets some- 

 what two-rowed. In its native habitat, Australia, it forms a beautiful 

 tree, from one hundred to one hundred and fifty feet in height, 

 producing good durable timber ; but it is much too delicate and tender 

 to stand unprotected in Britain. 



