AUSTRALASIAN ARAUCARIAS 424 
There is one called the A. Bidwellii, or in its more 
homely circles the Bunya Bunya, a name which we 
owe to the euphonious sources of an Australian 
aboriginal, or black fellow, lingo. It is a tree that 
sports enormous cones, carries lengthy leaves, and 
bears in some respects a resemblance to certain 
long-leaved Yew varieties. There is another called 
the A. Cunninghamii, of more particularly littoral 
and tropical Queensland fame, which bears leaves of 
Cryptomeria resemblance. 
Another variety called the Norfolk Island Pine 
(A. Excelsa), which is fast becoming quite a common 
corner-window side-show in many English homes, is 
a plant that ever wears a wistful look, and seems to 
plead for indoor life in winter-time. 
Then there is its variety—A. Goldieana from New 
Caledonia, A. Rulei, A. Cookii, A. Balanse, all from 
the same equatorial and tropical quarters. The 
Agathis Australis, the Kauri Pine of New Zealand, 
and presumably the Cunninghamia from China, 
belong to the same group, and there is yet another 
Araucaria—one from South Brazil‘\(A. Brasiliana)— 
which about completes the list, so far, of these weird 
curios of tree life, spectacular demonstration of 
which we are denied in English outdoor gardens, and 
in consequence opportunity of making observation 
upon or exhibiting intelligent attitude towards them. 
There is a humiliating chapter in the life-history 
of the Puzzle Monkey, but one which honesty compels 
us to unfold, and in it there is written, in letters clear 
and curt, that as a tree with us, by almost general 
consensus of opinion, it has signally failed to acquire 
merit, either in the eyes of the landscape gardening 
fraternity or the silvicultural enthusiast. But even 
if that be admitted, it cannot be denied that the 
tree is possessed of certain originalities of character 
that should render it an interesting study, even to 
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