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scale, that is, a sixth part of the natural size. Fig. 1978. is a portion of a cone of the natural size. 
Fig. 1981. a is a seed with the scale and wing of the natural size, and 6 is the kernel ; and jig. 1982 
is a leaf of the natural size. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves in eights, imbricated, ovate-lanceolate, with per- 
sistent mucros. (Pav.) An evergreen tree. Cordilleras, in Chili. Height 
50 ft. to 100ft., rarely 150 ft. Introduced in 1796, and flowering from 
September to November. 
1979. A.imbricata: fem. catkin, young. 1980. A. imbricata: fem. catkin, fullgrown. 
A very remarkable tree; the female of which, according to Pavon, is about 
150 ft. high, while the male is seldom more than 40 or 50 feet high. The 
trunk is quite straight, and without knots, with a strong arrow-like leading 
shoot, pushing upwards. It is covered with double bark, the inner part of 
which, in old trees, is 5 or 6 inches thick, fungous, tenacious, porous, and 
light ; and from it, as from almost every other part of the tree, resin flows in 
great abundance; the outer bark is of nearly equal thickness, resembling cork 
cleft in different directions, and equally resinous with the inner bark. In 
young trees, the 
bark of the trunk 
is studded with 
leaves from the 
base of the tree 
upwards, which re- 
main attached for 
12 or 15 years. 
The branches are 
produced in whorls 
of 6, 7, and some- 
times 8, in a whorl, | 
the greater number 
being nearest the 
ground ; and the 
branches diminish 
in length as they 
ascend higher up 
the tree; till, at the 
top, they terminate 
in-a kind of pyramidal head. They are 
/ horizontal, inflexed, and ascending at 
the extremities. These large horizon- 
tal arms, clothed with closely imbri- 
cated leaves, resemble, in young trees, 
snakes partly ener round ue banc j 
i ing forth their long slender bodies in quest of prey. The leaves 
i ee lene at the base, ovate-lanceolate, stiff, straight, 
somewhat keel-shaped below, and strongly mucronate at the apex ; verticil- 
late, with 7 or 8 in a whorl; imbricate, and closely encircling the branches; 
concave, rigid, glabrous, shining, makes with longitudinal lines, dotted on 
av 
1982. A. imbricata. 
1923. A. imbricata. 
