96 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
of Jako, the highest hill is, I believe, 8,300 feet. The vegetation scarcely 
differs at all from that of the same elevation in Kamaon. It is about 
forty miles from the plains, and the Deodar is very plentiful here and 
ornamental. I see that it is still a matter of doubt whether the Indian 
Cedar differs from that of Lebanon. Assuredly it is here very variable 
in its mode of growth; tall and thin, with slightly declining branches 
in its natural state, but often, by the destruction of the leading shoot, 
dividing into two or three, parallel, erect stems, each resembling a 
single tree, and sometimes not six inches apart from one another." 
Certain it is that no botanist, in describing the trees, has given clear 
and distinctive specific characters. If we take those of individuals 
who, from treating of the Conifere at large, might be considered 
competent to the task, we shall find little to depend upon. 
Lambert's specific distinctions are thus stated :— 
Pinus Cedrus ; “foliis fasciculatis perennantibus, strobilis ovatis ob- 
tusis erectis, squamis depressis erectis rotundatis." 
Pinus Deodara; “foliis fasciculatis perennantibus acutis triquetris 
set strobilis geminis ovalibus obtusis erectis, squamis ad- 
P 
Endlicher' s characters (Synopsis Coniferarum) are 
Pinus s, * Libani, ramis Bios pie arrectis idiniin, strobili 
squamis basi sub angulo recto inflexis 
Pinus Deodara, “ Indica, ramis bens foliis patentibus laxiusculis, 
strobili squamis basi haud inflexis." 
I incline to the opinion that if the Deodar of the Himalaya had 
been discovered in a locality nearer to the Cedar of Lebanon, botanists 
would have considered it only a variety of that classical tree; 
and tracing it, as we can do, according to the testimony of travellers, 
from Mount Atlas in the west to the chain of Taurus and Altai in the 
east, we may fairly infer that the same species reaches the Himalaya 
range, and stretches as far as Kamaon. 
