24-32 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART 111. 



Commercial Statistics. The price of plants, in the London nurseries, is two 

 guineas each. 



Genus VI. 



ARAUCA V RIA Ruiz et Pav. The Araucaria. Lin. St/st. Dice Via 

 Monadelphia. 



St/nonymcs. Eutassa Sal., Colymbfea Sal., Dombeya Lamb., Cupr£ssus Forst., the Southern 



Vine. 

 Derivation. From Araucanos, the name of the people in whose country Araucaria imbricata grows 



in Chili. 



Description, eye. Magnificent evergreen trees, natives of South America, 

 Polynesia, and Australia; one of them, the Araucaria imbricata, as hardy in 

 the climate of Britain as the cedar of Lebanon. 



? 1. A. imbricata Pav. The imbricate-/<?«m/ Araucaria, or Chili Pine. 



Identification. Pav. Diss, in Mem. Acad. Reg. Med. Mat., 1. p. 197. ; Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 850. ; 

 Ait. Hort. Kew., 5. p. 412. ; Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., No. 52. ; Laws. Man., p. 395. 



Synonymes. A. Dombeyt Rich. Mem. sur les Conif., p. 86., Lindl. in Penn. Cyc. ; Plnus Araucaria 

 Mo/'. Sag. su.'ltt Stor. Nat. del Chili,]}. 182. ; Colymbea quadrifaria Salisb mLinn. Trans., 8. p. 315.; 

 Dombdya chilensis 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. 



Engraoings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., t. 56. and 57. ; Rich. Mtm. sur les Conif., t. 20. and 21. ; and our 

 Jigs. 2286. to 2293. Fig. 2287. is a cone or female catkin in a young state, from Lambert ; fig. 2292. 

 is°a specimen of the female tree at Kew ; fig. 2291. is a portion of the male tree with the full- 

 grown catkin, from Lambert's Monograph ; and fig. 2288. is the full-grown female cone ; all to 

 our usual scale, that is, a sixth part of the natural size.. Fig. 2286. is a portion of a cone of the 

 natural size. Fig. 2290. a. is a seed with the scale and wing of the natural size, and b is the kernel ; 

 and jig. 2289. is a leaf of the natural size. 



Spec. Char. Leaves in eights, imbricated, ovate-lanceolate, with per- 

 sistent mucros. {Pav.) A tree, growing to the height of 150 ft. ; a native 

 of the Cordilleras, in Chili. Introduced in 1796, and flowering from Sep- 

 tember to November. 



Description. Flowers dioecious. — Male. Catkin dipsacus- (teasel-) shaped, 

 ovate-cylindrical. Scales numerous, sessile, closely imbricated round a com- 

 mon conical axis ; filament-like, obovate, somewhat woody ; with an oblong 

 reflexed point. Anthers numerous, oblong, 2-celled; connate a little below 

 the points of the scales, afterwards dependent; free, at first adpressed to the 

 scales, afterwards, having shed their pollen, divaricate. — Female. Catkin 

 ovate. Scales numerous, wedge-shaped, 2-flowered. Germen wedge-shaped, 

 compressed in the two opposite sides. Style none. Stigma 2-valved, callous, 

 thick : exterior valve ovate-acuminate, larger, concave, with a linear inflexed 

 point ; interior smaller, somewhat linear, obtuse, erect. Pericarp : cone 

 r-.pliijL'rico-ovate j scales connivent, coriaceous and woody, wedge-shaped, 

 terminated by a long awl-shaped point, 2-seeded. Seed: nut wedge-shaped, 

 terminated at the apex by a short, callous, marginal wing, bluntly tetragonal 

 at the base; afterwards gibbous, compressed, with opposite sides: tegument 

 coriaceous. Nucleus of the same figure. {Pavon Dissert, in Mem. Acad. Reg. 

 Med. Matrit. t \. p. 197., as quoted by Lambert.) Cone from Sin. to 8£ in. 

 broad, and from 7 in. to 74 in. long ; seed 24; in. long, and 1 in. broad. 



This is a very remarkable tree, the female of which, according to Pavon, is 

 about 160ft. high; while the male is seldom more than 40ft. or 50ft. high. 

 I 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 in. or Gin. thick; fungous, tenacious, porous, and 

 tight j and from it, as from almost every other part of the tree, resin flows in 

 I abundance ! the outer bark is of nearly equal thickness, resembling cork 



