CHAP. CXIIJ. CONl'FERiE. ARAUCa'r/A. 2441

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Description. A majestic tree, growing to the height of from 160 ft. to228 ft., with a trunk sometimes 11 ft. in diameter, and free from branches tothe height of 80 ft. or 100 ft. “ Its trunk rises erect, and, in old trees, issparingly covered with long, drooping, naked branches, towards the extremitiesof which the leaves are clustered : these latter, when the plant is young, arelong, narrow, curved, sharp-pointed, and spreading, as shown in Jig. 2301.; but,when the tree is old, they become shorter and broader, and are pressed closeto the branches, as shown in fig. 2300. to our usual scale, and Jig. 2298. of thenatural size. ( Lindl. in Penn. Cyc.) In consequence of this difference in thedisposition of the leaves, old and young trees are so little alike, that they might