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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM.

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pendage, hollow within at the base ofthe upper side, and furnished with ayoung monospermous nut. Nut, insize and colour, like the preceding.

(Lamb.) The Araucaria brasilianaforms a tree from 70 ft. to 100 ft. high.

It bears considerable resemblance toA. imbricata; but the leaves are largerand less rigid; they are also much lessclosely imbricated, and are somewhatreflexed. The tree, when full grown,has a large “ irregular head, with hori-zontal, pendulous, and aspiring branch-es, at the extremities of which thebranchlets are collected into tuftedmasses. The cones are rather smaller,more compact, and harder than thoseof A. imbricata; from which theydiffer in the scales being thick, andfurnished with small, sharp, recurvedspines on their points.” A. brasiliana grows much more rapidly than A.imbricata; a tree at Dropmore, 10 years planted, being, in 1836, 11 ft. 6 in.high, while one of A. imbricata, standing near it, and 13 years planted, wasonly 8 ft. high. It is, however, much more tender than A. imbricata, and willnot stand the winter in the climate of London without protection. Accord-ing to the Dictionnaire Classique d’Histoire Naturelle, tom. i. p. 312., this treeforms immense forests between the provinces of Minos Geraes and Saom-Paulo, to the north of Rio Janeiro . It was introduced into England in 1819,by Mr. Lee of the Hammersmith Nursery, who received a cone from Rio deJaneiro , and raised some plants from the seeds. It was at first supposedto be the same as A. imbricata, but M. A. Richard, in the Dictionnaire Classique,&c., published in 1822, states that he considers it a separate species, andthat he has given it the name of A. brasiliana; adding that it differs from A.imbricata in the whiteness and softness of its wood, and in the dispositionof its branches; but that its principal botanical distinction is, that it isentirely without any winged appendage to its fruit, as shown at a in Jig.2294. (See,also, Mem. sur les Coni/., p. 154., published in 1826 ; and Lamb.Gen. Pin., ed. 2., ii. t. 58., published in 1832.) The nuts, which have verylittle resin, are sold as an article of food in the market of Rio de Janeiro ;and the resin, which exudes from the trunk of the tree, is mixed with wax tomake candles. Seeds are frequently sent to England ; but they will seldomvegetate unless sent over in the cone. It propagates freely from cuttings;and Mr. Lambert has now several plants raised in that manner. In Britain ,it can only be considered as fit for the green-house; though in the HorticulturalSociety, and at Dropmore, Woburn, Cheshunt , and various other places, thereare plants in the open ground, from 3 ft. to 10 ft. high, which, however, areprotected during winter, so as to exclude the frost. The plant in the Hor-ticultural Society’s Garden, after being 3 years planted, is 5 ft. high; that atDropmore, the largest plant, was, in 1837, 12 ft. high.

} 3. A. exce'lsa Ait. The lofty Araucaria, or Norfolk Island Pine .Identification. Ait in Hort. Kew, ed. 2., 5. p. 412.; Rich. Mem. sut les Conifferes, p. 154. j Lamb.

Gen. Pin., ed. 2., 2. t. 61, 62.; Lindl. in Penn. Cyc.; Lawson’s Manual, p. 396.

Synonymes. Eut&ssa heteroph^lla Sal. in Lin. Trans., 8. p. 316. \ Cuprdssus columnaris, &c., Forst.

FI. Ins. Aust. j Dombeya excelsa Lamb. Monog., ed. 1., p. 87. t. 39, 40.; Altlngia excelsa Loud.

Hort. Brit., p. 403.; Pin de Norfolk, Fr.

Engravings. Lamb . Mon.,"t. 39, 40., Pin., t. 61,62.; and our figs. 2297. to 2302.

Spec. Char., §c. Adult leaves closely imbricated, bent inwards, mutic. (Ait.)A lofty tree, a native of Norfolk Island and New Caledonia . Introduced in1793; and requiring protection during winter, or to be kept in a green-house ; being still more tender than A. brasiliana.

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