200 AID. HRONGNEAEE M'A À, GBIS. 
L'appendice qui surmonte les écailles du cône est lancéolé, 
droit, rigide, piquant, et long de 9 millimètres. 
k. Araucaria Rucer, Ferd. Mueller. 
Arbor 15-20 metr. alia (Balansa), ramis verticillatis distan- 
bus, e basi usque ad apicem modo Coniferarum nostrarum 
sensim brevioribus (Pancher). 
Folia arboris adultæ in ramulis speciminis feminei sterilibus 
adscendentibus, 20-25 cent. longis, 3 cent. latis, dense imbricata, 
coriacea, ovato-lanceolata obtusiuscula, intus concava, arcuata, 
nervo medio dorsali notata, nitida, 2 cent. longa, basi 4 cent. 
lata; in speciminum steriliurt juniorum (?) ramulis arcte im- 
bricata, ovata, coriacea, arcuata, obtusiuscula, dorso carinata, 
nitida, punctulis multiseriatis conspersa, 6-8 mill. longa, 3-4 
mill. Tata. dé 
Amenta mascula 3-10 cent. longa, 3-4 cent. lata, basi bra- 
eis imbricatis imvoluerata, inferioribus triangulari-lanceolatis, 
arcuatis, dorso convexis medioque carinatis, intus nervo me- 
dio notatis et punctulis alhis multiseriatis conspersis, superiori- 
bus basi dilatatis versus apicem augustato subulatis. Stamina 
arcte imbricata, connectivo ovato-lanceolato, coriaceo, dorso 
plano, intus medio carinato, margine subüliter denticulato, 
subpungente, nitido, 7-9 mill. longo, 4 mill. lato ; lobi pollini- 
feri 15, triseriati, plerique patentes acuti, imteriores filamento 
contigui apice paulum cucullati. 
Strobili ovoidei, squamaram appendicibus subulaüs adscen- 
dentibus adpressis hirsuti coronatique, 8-9 cent. longi, 6-7 cent. 
lati, ramulos adscendentes 5-6 cent. Iongos, foliis imbricatis 
coriaceis, incurvatis, pangentibus, triangulari-lanceolatis, ni- 
tidis, nervo medio dorsali notatis, 2 ; cent, longis, basi 8 mill. 
latis, intus seriatim albo-punctulatis, superioribus sicut involu- 
crum efformantibus bast dilatato-incrassatis, indè triangularibus, 
subulatis, arcuails. Squamæ cuneatæ, 3 : cent. longæ, parte 
superiore Coriacea , externe convexa seu transverse rotundo- 
carinata superne in appendicem anguste lanceolato-subulatam, 
rigidam, acutam, 2 centim. longam producta; lateraliter im 
