CHAP. CXI 11. 



CON1 FEU,*:. CUNNINGIIA MIA. 



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of 900 miles between the parallels of 14° and 29^°, on the eastern coast 

 of New South Wales. On the alluvial banks of the Brisbane River, 27° 

 30", it rises to the height of from 100 ft. to 130 ft., with a girt of from 

 14 ft. to 16 ft., and a clear trunk of 80 ft. It is found at a short distance 

 from the river, in lat. 28°, and to the extent of 80 miles inland ; but the 

 trees are there comparatively small ; and farther inland they entirely disap- 

 pear. " Its maximum, therefore," says Mr. Cunningham, " is evidently 

 on the coast, immediately within the influence of the sea air." This tree was 

 first seen by Sir Joseph Banks and Dr. Solander, in 1770; but when the 

 Araucaria excelsa was discovered on Norfolk Island in 1774, it was supposed 

 to be the same species ; the two trees, in their full-grown state, being very 

 much alike. The Norfolk Island and Moreton Bay pines were consequently 

 considered the same till the year 1824; when Mr. Allan Cunningham, visiting 

 Moreton Bay in company with the late Mr. Oxley, satisfied himself " that it 

 was a very distinct species, not simply in its habit of growth, which is very 

 remarkable, but in the character of its leaves." Mr. Cunningham adds that 

 " this pine bears young cones in the month of September. Its wood is of a 

 pale yellowish deal, and is commonly used in house carpentry for making 

 common furniture ; and in boat-building at Brisbane Town. In the green 

 state, its spars have been formed into masts for vessels 

 of 200 tons, which are said to stand so long as the 

 sap continues in them ; but, after becoming dry, they 

 are not to be depended on." It was sent from Syd- 

 ney to Kew Gardens in 1824, and several plants have 

 subsequently been imported. There are handsome 

 specimens at Kew, Messrs. Loddiges's, Dropmore, 

 and other places. That at Dropmore, presented to 

 Lord Grenville by George IV., and of which Jig. 2305, 

 is a portrait, was, in 1837, 10 ft. high, after having 

 been 7 years planted. It is carefully protected during 

 winter, like the other tender species of this genus. 2305 



Genus VII. 





CUNNINGHAMS R. Br. 



The Cunninghamia. 



Monadelphia. 



Lin. Sj/st. Monce x cia 



Synonymes. Plnus Lamb., Belis Salisb. 



Derivation. Named by Mr. Brown in honour of Mr. James Cunningham, "an excellent observer 

 in his time, by whom this plant was discovered; and in honour of Mr. Allan Cunningham, the 

 very deserving botanist who accompanied Mr. Oxley in his first expedition into the interior of 

 New South Wales, and Captain King, in all his voyages of survey of the coast of New Holland. 

 (Bot. Mag., t. 2743.), 



Description. Only one species has been discovered, which is an evergreen 

 moderate-sized tree, a native of China. Introduced in 1804. 



I l.C. sinf/nsis Rich. The Chinese Cunninghamia, or Broad-leaved 

 Chinese Fir. 



Identification. Rich. Conif., p. 149. t. 18. ; Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 2. t. 53. 



Synonymes. Belis jaculifblia Salisb. in Lin. Trans., 8. p. 316. ; Plnus lanceolata Lamb. Monog., 



ed. 1., t. 34. ; ^ v bies major sinensis, &c, Pluk. Aim., 1. t. 351. f. 1. j Cunningham/a lanceolata R. 



Br. ; Araucaria lanceolata Hort. 

 Engravings. Rich. Conif., t. 18.; Lamb. Monog., ed. 1., t. 34.; Pluk. Aim., t. 351., f. 1. ; Lamb. 



Pin., ed. 2., t. 53. ; Bot. Mag., t. 2743. ; our Jig. 2307. to our usual scale ; and Jig. 2306. of tbe 



natural size. 



Description, Sj-c. A middle-sized tree, having the general appearance of 

 Araucaria. Branches for the most part verticillate, spreading horizontally. 

 Leaves sessile, deflexed, and spreading in every direction, li in. long; lanceo- 



