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declining, and closely covered with foliage. Male catkins, 

 terminal, ovate, and from one and a half or two inches long. 

 Cones ovate, rounded at the ends, from four to six inches 

 long, and from two and a half to three and a half inches 

 broad, lateral, and sometimes in pairs. Scales large, gibbose, 

 coriaceous, very thin on the edges, closely imbricated, and 

 terminating on the summit, in a long, hooked, spiny appendage. 



A very tall tree, with a straight stem, covered with a thin 

 glossy bark, resembling the Norfolk Island Pine, but differing 

 in several respects, growing from 150 to 200 feet high, with a 

 very narrow head, very much resembling a well-proportioned 

 factory chimney. It is found abundantly on the islands of 

 Aniteura, New Hebrides^ and New Caledonia. 



It is quite tender. 



No. 6. Araucaria Cunninghamii, Alton, Cunningham's 

 Araucaria, or Moreton Bay Pine. 

 Syn. Altingia Cunninghamii, Dcm. 

 „ Eutacta Cunninghamii, Link. 

 „ Eutassa Cunninghamii, Spach. 

 Leaves very rigid, those on young trees vertically compressed, 

 sharp-pointed, straight, alternate, decurrent at the base, smooth, 

 dark green, shining, and disposed all round the branches, half 

 an inch long, swelling towards the base, and awl-shaped ; those 

 on the full-grown trees lanceolate, acute, imbricated, curved* 

 awl-shaped, widest at the base, and reclining on the principal 

 branches and stem. Branches in horizontal whorls of from six 

 to eight in number, spreading out straight, or slightly ascend- 

 ing when young, but bending downwards when old. Branch- 

 lets distant and alternate. Male catkins solitary, cylindrical, 

 terminal, three inches long, and about the thickness of the 

 middle finger. Cones ovate, three inches long, and nearly the 

 same in thickness, terminal on the upper branchlets, and with- 

 out foot-stalks. Scales wedge-shaped, numerous, thick, leathery, 

 membraneous, winged on the margins, and wavy, half an inch 

 broad, and terminated by a linear, awl-shaped, recurved, stiff, 



