Tab. 5359. 



DAMMARA orientalis. 



Dammara or Amboyna Pitch-Pine. 



Nat. Ord. Conifers. — Dkecia Polyandeia. 



Gen. Char. Flores dioici. Amenta staminigera axillaria v. extra-axillaria, cv- 

 Kndrica, basi peralata. Stamina plurima, axi inserta, imbricata ; filumentu br'e- 

 vissima, horizontalia, in conneciivum crassum cuneatum v. orbiculatum pro- 

 ducta ; anthera loculi nunc quinque v. sex uniseriati, nunc sex ad quindecim 

 biseriati, e connectivi basi penduli, cylindrici, filamenti paralleli et Eequilono-i, 

 postice longitudinaliter dehiscentes. ' Seminif. amenta terminalia, solitaria v. 

 gemina. Squama plurinise, ebracteatse, axi inserta?, dense imbricata?, apicem 

 versus sensim crassiores. Gemmula sub quavis squama unica, eidem prope 

 apicem inserta, inversa, libere pendula, atropa, apice deorsum spectante aperta. 

 Strobilus ovato-globosus, e squamis coriaceo-lignosis, dense imbricatis, demum ab 

 axi solutis. Semina sub quavis squama solitaria, inversa, libere pendula, ovata, 

 compressa, liilo transversim lineari, integumento membranaceo utrinque in alam 

 producto, ala_ altera angusta margiuiformi, altera cultriformi squama latiore. 

 Embryo in axi albuminis carnosi antitropus, ejusdem longitudine, cotyledonibus 

 duabus semicylindricis obtusis ; radicula cylindrica, infera.— Arbores excelsce, in 

 insults Moluccanis et in Nova Zelar.dia crescentes, resinifiuce. Folia alterna et 

 subopposita, oblongo-lanceolata, integerrima, crassa, enervia, striata, facie inferiore 

 iota stomatnm seriebus dense sibi oppositis. Endl. 



Dammara orientalis; foliis petiolatis staminigeris extra-axillaribus, antherarmn 

 loculis 2-15 biseriatis crista cuneiformi orbiculari strobili subglobosi squa- 

 mis adpressis, apice rotundatis, seminum ala horizontali. Endl. 



Dammara orientalis. Lamb. Pin. ed. 2. p. 61. /. 38. p. 97. t. 54. Endlich. Syn. 

 Conif.p. 189. Miquel, Fl. hid. Bat. v. 2. p. 1070. 



Pinus Dammara. mild. Sp. PI. v. 4. p. 503. Lamb. Pin. ed. 1. p. 61. t. 38. 

 Ait. Ilort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 5. p. 321. 



Abies Dammara. Poir. Diet. v. S.'p. 35. 



Agathis Dammara. Richard, Conif.p. 83. t. 19. 



Agathis loranthifolia. Salisb. in Linn. Trans, v. 8. p. 312. 1. 15. Plume, En. PI. 



Dammara alba. Rumph. Herb. Amboin. v. 2. p. 174. t. 57. 



Arbor Javanensis foliis latioribus conjugatis, Dammara alba dicta. Sherard in 

 Raii Hist. v. 3. p. 130. 



Perhaps the rarest of all the Coniferous plants in cultivation 

 in Europe. Loudon, in his ' Arboretum Britannicum,' records 



JANUARY 1ST, 1863. 



