Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, evergreen,
ft ‘"‘'•ri
in the climate of Britain.
1 1. A. IM B B I C A 'T A Pav. The imbricate-fe«reá Araucaria, or Chili Pine.
Mentificaiion. Pav. Diss. in « “ ( A '“» ' f e ? b S ' r i 84 > ta lr i'A r a u ta I a Mol. Sag. s f l a Star.
Mrtnnniimes A. Dombèvi Kich. Mem. sur les V Trans. 8. p. 315. ; Dombcyo chi-
'' f l a t del Chili, p. 182. ; Colymbèa in the Andes ; Sir Joseph Banks’s Pine.
r l f r i L ? ’'T h Y f B L 'catkins in 1836 ; and a ntale plant a t Boyton
A ’s 1978. to 1986. Fig 1979. is a cone the male tree with the full-grown
LXXVII. c o n i ' f e r æ : a r a u c a ' k ia . 1 0 6 3
scale, that is, a sixth part of the natural size. Fig. 1978. is a portion of a cone of the natural size.
Fig. 1981. a is a seed with the scale and wing o fth e natural size, and b is the k e rn e l; and Jig. 1982.
is a leaf of the natural size.
Sjh \ Char., cfc. Leaves in eights, imbricated, ovate-lanceolate, with per-
sistent mucros. (Pav.) An evergreen tree. Cordilleras, in Chili. Height
50 ft. to lOOft., rarely 150ft. Introduced in 1796, and flowering from
September to November.
1979. A . im bricàta : fern catk in , young. im b ric àta: fern, catkin, fuilgrown.
A very remarkable tree ; the female of which, according to Pavon, is about
150 ft. high, while the male is seldom more than 40 or 50 feet high. The
trunk is quite straight, and without knots, with a strong arrow-like leading
shoot, pushing upwards. It is covered with double bark, the inner part of
which, in old trees, is 5 or 6 inches thick, fungous, tenacious, porous, and
light ; and from it, as from almost every other part of the tree, resin flows in
great abundance ; the outer bark is of nearly equal thickness, resembling cork
cleft in different directions, and ecjually resinous with the inner bark. In
young trees, the
bark of the trunk
is studded with
leaves from the
base of the tree
upwards, which remain
attached for
12 or 15 years.
The branches are
produced in whorls
of 6, 7, and some- j
times 8, in a whorl,
the greater number
lieing nearest the
ground ; and the
branches diminish
in length as tliey
ascend higher up
tiie tree ; till, at the I . .1 . . , jy»'^. A. imiiricata. I top, they terminate
in a kind of pyramidal head. They are
horizontal, inflexed, and ascending at
the extremities. These large horizontal
arms, clothed with closely imbricated
leave.s, resemble, in young trees,
snakes partly coiled round the trunk,
1931. A. iin b n c àti
and stretching forth their long slender bodies in quest of prey. The leaves
are sessile, somewhat thickened at the base, ovate-lanceolate, stifl', straight,
somewhat keel-shaped below, and strongly imicronate at the apex ; verticillate,
with 7 or 8 in a whorl ; imbricate, and closely encircling the branches;
concave ri«dd, glabrous, sliining, marked witii longitudinal lines, dotted on
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