CHAP. CXIII. 



coni'fek^. da'mmara. 



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this time (February, 1827) the centre shoot produced is nearly 2 ft. high, and 

 is furnished all round with three sets, or tiers, of regular horizontal branches. I 

 may add that this plant flowered with us in January, 1827, and was figured 

 in the Botanical Magazine, t. 2743. In 1826, 1 repeated my experiment on the 

 other plant with the very same success." (^Gard. Mag.,\\. p. 410.) 



Statistics. In the enviroiis of London the largest phmt is in the Hammersmith Nursery, which 

 is upwards of 10 ft. high, and would have been twice that height had it not been cut down, upwards 

 of 10 years ago, on account of its being too high for tlie house in which it then stood. At Fulham 

 Palace, it is 5 ft. high ; and there are plants of about this height in the Horticultural Society's Garden, 

 Messrs. Loddiges's arboretum, Chesliunt, Bayfordbury, and various other places. Those at Clare- 

 jnont, and White Knights, have been already mentioned At Redleaf, it is 8 ft. 2 in. high. At 

 Edinburgh, in the Botanic Garden, it is 4 ft. 6 in. high; and in the Experimental Garden, 2 ft. 

 6 in. high. In Ireland, there are plants in the different botanic gardens ; and at Oriel Temple there 

 is one, which, in 1834, after being 12 years planted, was 7 ft. high. In Austria, at Vienna, at Laxen. 

 burg, where it receives protection during winter, 5 years planted, it is 6 ft. high. In Italy, at Monza, 

 10 years planted, it is 20 ft. high. Price of plants, in the London nurseries, one guinea each. 



Genus VIII. 



DA'MMARA Rumph. The Dammar, or Amboyna, Pine. Lin. Syat. 

 Monce^cia Monadelphia. 



Synonymes. Pinus Lamb., 

 A'gathis Sal. 



Derivation. From dam- 

 mar, the name, in Am- 

 boyna.of the resin which 

 it produces. 



Description. Large, 

 broad.leaved, evergreen, 

 timber trees, abounding 

 in resin ; natives of Am- 

 boyna and New Zealand ; 

 and requiring, in England, 

 the protection of a green- 

 house. 



i- 1. D. orienta'- 

 Lis Lamb. The 

 Oriental Dammar 

 Pine, or Amboyna 

 Pitch Tree. 



Identification Lamb. Pin., 



t. 54. 

 Synonymes. PJnus Dam. 

 . mara Willd. Sp. PI., 4. 



p. 503., Lamb. Monog., 



ed. 1., p. 32 , Ait. Hort. 



Kew., ed. 2., 5. p. 321. ; 



DdmmarakVaiL Rumph. 



Amboyn., 2. t. 57. ; A ga- 



this toranthifiJIiaSn/. in 



Linn. Trans., S. p. 312., 



Lindl. in Penn. Cyc. ; 



A. Ddmmara Rich. 



Conif., p. 83. ; A'rijor 



javantnsis, &c.. Rait 



Hist., 3., Den dr. p. 130. 

 Engravings Lamb. Pin., 



t. 54. ; Lin. Trans., 8. 



t. 15. ; Rich. Conif, t. 



81. ; Lamb. Monog., 



ed. 1., t. 38., and our fig. 



2309. to our usual scale, 



and^^. 2308. to the na- 

 tural size. 

 Spec. C/iar., Sfc. Leaves 



opposite, oval-oblong, 



parallel. veined, attenu- 

 ated at the base. Cones 



turbinate; scales ad- 

 pressed, round at the 



apex. {Lamb. Pin.) A 



large tree, a native of Amboyna. Introduced in 1804. 



Descnpt,on, Sfc. Rumphius describes it as a very t..ll tree, with a siraight, upright. 



V X 



2308 



cylindrical 



