652 MONOFXIA MONADELPHIA. PinUS. 



Devadaroo, or Devdar, is the name the tree is known by 

 amongst the natives where it grows. 



A tree of great size, a native of the mountains north of 

 Rohilcund. It differs from P. Larix in many respects, but 

 most conspicuously in being destitute of the bractes which 

 project beyond the scales of the strobile or cone. 



Leaves in approximate clusters of about forty, straight, 

 three-sided, rigid and acute. Male aments scattered between 

 the fascicles of leaves, at first oval, but lengthening with age, 

 imbricated with numerous bi-antheriferous scales with dilat- 

 ed incurved apices. Filaments no other than the just mention- 

 ed scales of the aments. Anthers, an oblong one-celled one, 

 on each side of the narrow inferior part of the scales. Stro- 

 bile or cone erect, peduncled, oval, obtuse, of the size of a pul- 

 let's egg. Scales thereof transversely elliptic, or broad reni- 

 form, concave with a thin, smooth, even edge, they remain 

 from their broad concave structure, so close as in general to 

 prevent the escape of the seeds without help. 



The tree is so exceedingly replete with resin, as to yield a 

 very large proportion of tar. A manufactory of that article 

 was lately begun, near the skirts of the Almora mountains 

 by Mr. Gott. 



Extract of a letter from that Gentleman, (Mr. Gott,) dat- 

 ed Kosupoor, 2nd November 1804, describing the Devdar 

 pine. 



" The only account I can give you of the Devdar pine, is 

 from a variety of enquiries I have at times made of the na- 

 tives. It grows a very considerable distance within the hills, 

 none less than six days' journey, for a native. It does not 

 appear to delight in a situation on the summit of mountains ; 

 on the contrary it grows in valleys, and most abundantly in 

 plains, on the side of large, or tops of small hills that are but 

 little exposed. Its height is described to exceed twenty feet, 

 and its bulk in proportion, from four to five feet in diameter; 

 it grows very straight, and as regularly tapering as a fishing 

 rod, with branches down to the ground. 



