only one instance to his knowledge of its being in England, in 

 the Royal Gardens of Kew ; and that is the one from whieli our 

 figure is taken, and which was introduced by Sir Joseph Banks in 

 1804. It has now attained the height of thirty feet, little indeed 

 in proportion to its age; but then it is to be recollected that our 

 tender Conifera have been for the last titty yean maintained in 

 houses so low and so unsuited to them, and in tubs so small 

 (lest their growth should be too much encouraged), that no jus- 

 tice has been done them. Notwithstanding, now, in the autumn 

 of 1S62, on the removal of this tree to its new abode in the grand 

 centre of the New Conservatory (or Winter Garden), it was 

 found to have upon it many cones, similar to that here repre- 

 sented. Though apparently attaining the full size of the native 

 cones, yet for want of male flowers they are necessarily abortive, 

 and on a slight movement of the tree or of a coniferous branch, 

 the scales fall down in a shower, leaving the large, obovate, 

 fleshy receptacle, as shown at our figure. 



The species is a native of the Moluccas ; but, according to 

 Rumphius, it is only found on the summits of the loftv moun- 

 tains where it attains a very large size, and yields a vast quan- 

 tity oi very hard and transparent resin, which forms an article of 

 commerce m the East, and of whose uses, etc., an account will 

 be found m the Supplement to Miquel's < Flora of the Dutch 

 Indies p. 86, like that of the Dammara (Witralii, or Cowdie 

 Fine, of New Zealand. Other species of Dammara have recently 

 been detected in the South Pacific islands : among them are the 

 V.macropfyVa LmdL, figured in Hook. Kew Garden Misc., 

 v. 4, p ilo, t. 4, with much larger leaves, and cones twice the 

 size of those of D. oriental • from La Peyrouse's Island ; another 

 m New Caledonia ; a third in Australia ; and a fourth from the 



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