A NEW SPECIES OF DAMMARA. 115 
Notice of a new species of DAMMARA, detected by Mr. CHARLES MOORE 
in La Peyrouse’s Island; by Str W.J. Hooker, D.C.L., F.R.A. & L.S. 
(Tas. IV.) 
In a late number of our Miscellany we figured a new and interesting 
Fern from New Caledonia, discovered by Mr. Charles Moore, and we have 
now the pleasure of representing a much more remarkable plant, dis- 
covered by him on the same expedition (voyage of H.M.S. Havanah, 
Capt. Erskine, R.N.), a new species of Dammara ; and since it was found 
_ On the island where the ill-fated but very distinguished navigator, La 
Peyrouse, lost his ship and his life, we had intended that it should bear 
the name of D. Peyrousii: but since the name was inscribed on our 
plate, we find it published in the last part of the sixth volume of the 
Journal of the Horticultural Society, under the appellation, which we : 
consequently adopt, of 
DAMMARA MACROPHYLLA, Lindl. 
Foliis ovato-lanceolatis sensim acuminatis membranaceo-coriaceis basi 
in petiolum brevem tortum attenuatis, strobilis globoso-ellipticis — 
(magnis), squamis arcte adpressis quintuplo latioribus quam longis 
apice rotundatis. (Tas. IV. sub nom. D. Perousii.) 
Dammara macrophylla, Lindl. in Journ. Hort. Soc. v. 6. p. 271. 
Has. Discovered by Mr. C. Moore, while on a voyage with Captain 
Erskine, R.N., in H.M.S. Havanah, in the island of Vanicolla, or La 
Peyrouse’s Island, in the Pacific Ocean, lat. 11? 40' S., long. 167? E. 
Our portion of the branch of this tree is about 15 to 16 inches long, —— 
straight, terete, glabrous, and quite smooth, nearly as thick as the little 
finger, very medullose within, bearing six or seven pair of nearly oppo- ie : 
site distichous leaves, between membranaceous and coriaceous, glossy, — 
olive-brown when dry, from 5-7 inches long, ovate-lanceolate, from 
2-23 inches wide below the middle, then gradually acuminated towards 
the apex: at the very base rather suddenly tapering into a broad, short - 
petiole, if it can be so called, for it is of the same texture and sub- 
stance as the leaf itself, about 2 lines long, slightly twisted, so as to — 
make all the leaves with their edges vertical and distichous ; there is no - 
costa or nerve; the whole surface is very minutely and longitudinally 
striated. Cone separate from the branch, almost exactly and broadly v 
elliptical, —upon a petiole or stalk, about 13 inch long and as thick — 
