PINETUM DANICUM. 



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Conif. 421 ; Gord. Pinet. 27. Eidacta Cookii. Cupressus columnarisy 

 Forst. Fl. Austral, n. 351. Araucaria cohimnaris, liort. aliq. 



Habitat. — New Caledonia, Isle of Pines, Isle Aniteura, and in the 

 New Hebrides. 



We have wintered it in a frame. 



A. Cunninghamii, Ait. Mss. ; Sweet, Hoit. Brit. 475 ; Lamb. 

 Pinet. iii. t. 79 ; Loud. Arbor. 2443, f. 2303-2305, and suppl. 2603, 

 f. 2545 ; Ant. Conif. 102, t. 43, 44 ; Forb. Pinet. Wob. 157, t. 52 ; 

 Endl. Syn. Conif. 187 ; Knight, Syn. Conif. 44 ; Lindl. and Gord. 

 Journ. Hort. Soc. v. 220 ; Carr. Man. des PI. iv. 381, and Tr. Gen. 

 Conif. 419 ; Gord. Pinet. 27 ; Henk. and Hochst. Syn. der Nadelh. 9. 

 Altingia Cunninghamii, G. Don in Loud. Hort. Brit. 408. JEutacta 

 Cunninghamii, Link in Linnsea, xv. 545. Eutasm Cunninghamii^ 

 Spach, Hist. Yeg. Phan. xi. 362. 



Habitat. — The eastern coast of Australia, towards Moreton Bay, 

 between 14° and 29^ 30', where it constitutes waste forests ; also near 

 the port of Brisbane at 27° 30'. 



Introduced about 1827. 



In some German gardening journals it was reported a few years 

 ago that this species had ripened fruit planted out on a hill near 

 Donaueschingen, in South Baden. This was a mistake ; the plant 

 fruiting was a conservatory plant. I have tried a plant out of doors, 

 but, although covered well, it lost its top even in a mild winter. 

 Other plants have been wintered in a frame. 



The Moreton Bay Pine much resembles Araucaria excelsa, and was 

 first distinguished from it by Allan Cunningham in 1824, when 

 he discovered the tree on the eastern coast of New South Wales, and 

 also on the banks of the Brisbane River. The leaves dija'er from 

 those of A. excelsa in being broader at the base, and standing out in 

 a more horizontal direction from the branches ; those on the old wood 

 are always reflexed towards the trunk of the tree, whilst those of 

 the Norfolk Island Pine are pointing towards the extremities of the 

 branches. The following interesting account of this species is given 

 by Mr. Cunningham, F.L.S. : "This Pine was first seen by the late 

 Sir Joseph Banks and Dr. Solander on the discovery of New South 

 Wales by the immortal Cook in the year 1770. From 1774, when 

 Norfolk Island was discovered in a subsequent voyage of that cele- 

 brated circumnavigator, and its Pines examined, on to the period of 

 the voyages of Captain Flinders (to which was attached that eminent 

 botanist, Mr. Brown), and down even to within about 1830, this noble 

 tree was considered the same as that of Norfolk Island, although in 

 the voyages of Captain King, whom I accompanied throughout his 

 surveys, I had some reason to doubt its identity, from what I 

 observed of its habit ; but it was not until my visit to the shores of 

 Moreton Bay with the late Mr. Oxley, in 1824, that I had a favourable 

 opportunity afibrded me of satisfying myself on the banks of the 



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