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it is not known to yield any dammer. The wood is 

 white, rather light, and bears considerable resemblance 

 to some kinds of pine. It is used by native carpenters 

 for various purposes, and the Burmese have a superstition 

 that the beams or balances of their scales ought to be 

 formed of this wood. They call it tkect-mai, the tree-go- 

 vernor. 



Agathis loranthifolia. 



FINE.* 



Some twenty years ago the residents of Maulmain were 

 not a little surprised to find, among the drift wood of the 

 Sal wen, a log of some coniferous tree. This was the first 

 intimation that any tree of the pine tribe grew on the 

 borders of these Provinces, but whether it were of the 

 o'enus pinus, or abies, or larix— apme, a fir, or a larch, 

 did not appear. It was several years after this occur- 

 rence, thai one of our former commissioners told me 

 he had offered a hundred rupees to any of the for- 

 esters who would bring down a spar of this tree. Spars 

 have been since brought down, but it is believed that 

 i 'apt. Latter was the first European to visit the locality 

 where the tree is indigenous, and from specimens of the 

 foliage and fruit, which he brought away, it appears to be a 

 newspecies of pine that maybe characterized thus: 



P. Latteri. Arbor 50 — 69 pedalis, cortice scabro, 

 foliis geminis 7 — S uncialibus caniculatis serratisf scab- 

 briosculo, strobilis 4 uncialibus ovato — conicis, squamis 

 rombeis inermis. 



Flab, In provincia Amherst: in convalli fluvii TJioung- 

 yeen. 



Dcscr. A tree of from 50 to 60 feet high, or more, 

 and from 1^ to 2 feet or more in diameter. Sheaths of 

 the leaves arranged spirally, tubular, membranous, six 



. Extracted from an article comnuh.icatfcd by the author, in the Journal of thr 

 Asiatic Society for January 1849. 



t Lindley says 01 the order, leaves — entire at the margins;" but these arc 

 feertainly finely serrated ; and I find P. cxceUa described with leaves "ttftftb 



VUed." 



