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the brandies (A. BidwiUii is an exception) ; imbricated in soiile 

 species and persistent many years ; comparatively broad, flat, ovate- 

 lanceolate, and very sharply pointed ; or narrow 4-angled, and com- 

 pressed ; often curved. 



Name derived from Araucanos, the people of Chili, in which 

 country Araibcaria imhric.ata abounds, and where its seeds furnish a 

 great portion of the food of the Indians. 



The Araucarias difier from the true Pines and Firs in having the 

 sexes on separate trees ; in the scales on the cones being one-seeded, 

 and in the seeds being more or less attached to the scales. They, 

 however, approach nearest to the genus Dammara, in being dioecious, 

 but differ from them in the form of the leaves and scales on the 

 cones ; also in having bracts to each female flower, and in the seeds 

 being more or less attached to the scales, and not free as in the genus 

 Dammara. 



A. BidwiUii, Hook, in Lond. Journ. of Bot, ser. 2, ii, 498, t. 18, 

 19 ; Ant. Conif. 106, t. 46, 47 ; Endl. Syn. Conif. 187 ; Knight, Syn. 

 Conif. 44 ; Lindl. and Gord. Journ. Hort. Soc. v. 220 ; Carr. Man. 

 des PI. iv. 361, and Tr. Gen. Conif. 418 ; Gord. Pinet. 22. Columhea 

 Bidwilli. 



Habitat.— -The mountains of Brisbane and vicinity of Moreton 

 Bay in Australia. 



Introduced about 1849. 

 Wintered indoors* 



A. brasiliensis, A. liich. Diet. Class. Hist. Nat. i. 512 ; Lamb. 

 Pinet. ed. 2, ii. 79, t. 46 ; Loud. Arbor, iv. 2439 ; Forb. Pinet. Wob. 

 161, t. 53, 54 ; Link in Linnaea, xv. 543 ; Ant. Conif. iii. f. 51-53 ; 

 Spach, Hist. Y6g. Phan. xi. 365 ; Endl. Syn. Conif. 185 ; Lindl. and 

 Gord. Journ. Hort. Soc. v. 220 ; Knight, Syn. Conif. 43 ; Carr. Man. 

 des PI. iv. 361, and Tr. Gen. Conif. 415 ; Gord. Pinet. 23 ; Henk. and 

 Hockst. Syn. derNadelh. 2 ; J. E. Nelson, Pinac. 93. A. Ridolfiana, 

 Savi in Atti della Terza Biunione degli Scienziati Italiani, tenuta in 

 Firenze (1841), 458, 783, t. 2, 3, and Giornale Botanico, 1846, ii. 52. 

 Colymbea hrasiliensisy Carr. Tr. Gen. des Conif. 1867, ii. 596. Finns 

 dioica, Arab. Fl. Flum. x. t. 55, 56. Colymbea angustifolia, Bertol. 

 Piante del Brasile, 1820, 7. 



Habitat. — Brazil, between 15^ and 25° ; perhaps also in the 

 northern part of the Argentine Bepublic. 



Introduced in 1816. 



We have wintered it indoors. A plant we tried to winter in a cold 

 frame died. 



A. Cookii, R. Br. ex Don in Linn. Trans, xviii. 164 ; FL 

 Serr. vii. 243 {cum ic.) ; Paxt. Flow. Gard. ii. 132, and iii. 77, f. 272 ; 

 Endl. Syn. Conif. 188 ; Lindl. and Gord. Journ. Hort. Soc. v. 220 ; 

 Lindl. I.e. vi. 267 {cum ic.) ; Carr. Man. des PI 362, and Tr. G6n. 



