As well as referring to his love of cinema, it is an anagram of Chile Pine, an alternative name for the monkey-puzzle tree, whose botanical name is Araucaria.
Bryan Gould
Woodmuir Terrace
Newport-on-Tay
Anagrammatical
Alasdair Steven’s obituary (26 November) of crossword compiler the Rev John Galbraith Graham (Araucaria) omits one salient point; the pseudonym “Cinephile” which Graham used in his Financial Times contributions.