CHAP. CXIII.

coni'feka: cunningha'm/a.

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of 900 miles between the parallels of 14° and 29%°, on the eastern coastof 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 from14 ft. to 16 ft., and a clear trunk of 80 ft. It is found at a short distancefrom the river, in lat. 28°, and to the extent of 80 miles inland; but thetrees are there comparatively small; and farther inland they entirely disap-pear. “ Its maximum, therefore,” says Mr. Cunningham, “ is evidentlyon the coast, immediately within the influence of the sea air.” This tree wasfirst seen by Sir Joseph Banks and Dr. Solander, in 1770; but when theAraucaria excelsa was discovered on Norfolk Island in 1774, it was supposedto be the same species; the two trees, in their full-grown state, being verymuch alike. The Norfolk Island and Moreton Bay pines were consequentlyconsidered the same till the year 1824; when Mr. Allan Cunningham, visitingMoreton Bay in company with the late Mr. Oxley, satisfied himself “ that itwas a very distinct species, not simply in its habit of growth, which is veryremarkable, 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 apale yellowish deal, and is commonly used in house carpentry for makingcommon furniture; and in boat-building at Brisbane Town. In the greenstate, its spars have been formed into masts for vessels „ |

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

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

are not to be depended on.” It was sent from Syd-ney to Kew Gardens in 1824, and several plants havesubsequently been imported. There are handsome ...specimens at Kew, Messrs. Loddiges’s, Dropmore, ‘and other places. That at Dropmore, presented toLord Grenville by George IV., and of which fig. 2305,is a portrait, was, in 1837, 10 ft. high, after havingbeen 7 years planted. It is carefully protected during

winter, like the other tender species of this genus.

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Genus VII.

CUNNINGHA'ML4 R. Br. The Cunninghamia. Lin. Syst. Monoe'cia

Monadelphia.

Synonymes. Plnus La?nb., Bfelis Salisb.

Derivation. Named by Mr. Brown in honour of Mr. James Cunningham, “an excellent observerin his time, by whom this plant was discovered; and in honour of Mr. Allan Cunningham, thevery deserving botanist who accompanied Mr. Oxley in his first expedition into the interior ofNew South Wales, and Captain King, in all his voyages of survey of the coast of New Holland.{But. Mag., t. 2743.),

Description. Only one species has been discovered, which is an evergreenmoderate-sized tree, a native of China. Introduced in 1804.

T 1. C. sim/nsis Hick. The Chinese Cunninghamia, or Jiroad-leaved

Chinese Fir.

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

Synonymes. B&lis jaculifblia Salisb. in Lin. Trans., 8. p. 316.; Pinus lanceol&ta Lamb. Monog.,ed. 1., t. 34.; A'b\es mdjor sinensis, &c., Pluk. Aim., 1. t. 351. f. 1.; Cunninghhmia lanceol&ta R.Br. -, Araucdria lanceolkta 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 fig. 2307. to our usual scale and Jig. 2306. of thenatural size.

Description, §c. A middle-sized tree, having the genera] appearance ofAraucaria. Branches for the most part verticillate, spreading horizontally.Leaves sessile, deflexed, and spreading in every direction, lj in. long; lanceo-