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 | | A GENUS, belonging to the Coniferœ, with only one known living species,2 and doubtfully represented in the fossil state.8 Cunninghamia is considered by Bentham and Hooker, and by Masters, to be a member of the family Araucariese ; but it is placed by Eichler8 in Taxodinese. |
 | | It appears, however, to be a connecting link between the Araucarieae and the Taxodinese ; and mainly differs from Araucaria, some species of which it closely resembles, in foliage, in having three ovules on the bract, and not one only, as in that genus. |
 | | 494 Cunninghamia 495 An evergreen tree, attaining in China 150 feet in height and 18 feet in girth of stem, with brownish bark scaling off in irregular longitudinal plates, and exposing a reddish cortex beneath. |
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