1062 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM, 
Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, evergreen; imbricate.— Trees of 
magnificent dimensions, and evergreen; natives of South America, Poly- 
nesia, and Australia ; only one of which, the Araucaria imbricata, is hardy 
in the climate of Britain. 
£ ). A. imsrica‘ta Pav. The imbricate-leaved Araucaria, or Chili Pine. 
Identification. Pav. Diss. in Mém. Acad. Reg. Med. Mat., 1. p. 197. . 
Synonymes. A. Dombéyz Rich. Mém. sur les Conif. p. 86.; Pinus Araucarla Mol. Sag. sulla Stor. 
Nat. del Chili, p. 182.; Colymbéa quadrifaria Salish. in Linn. Trans. 8. p. 315.; Dombéya chi- 
lénsis Lam.:Encyc.; Pino de Chili, Span. ; Peghuen, in the Andes ; Sir Joseph Banks’s Pine. 
The Sexes. There is a tree at Kew which bore female catkins in 1836; and a male plant at Boyton 
which blossomed in the same year. . 
Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., t. 56. and 57.; Rich. Mem. sur les Conif., t. 20. and 21.; and our 
figs. 1978. to 1986. Fig 1979. isa cone or female catkin in a young state, from Lambert ; fig. 1984. 
is a specimen of the female tree at Kew ; fig. 1983. is a portion of the male tree with the full-grown 
catkin, from ambert’s Monograph ; and fig. 1980. is the full-grown female cone ; all to our usual 
1978. a. imbricdta. 
