DAMMARA. 77 



Gen. DAMMARA. Rumphms. 



Floiod's, clicEcious, or male and female on separate plants. 



Cones, ovate or globular, and axillary. 



Scales, persistent, and without bracteas. 



Seeds, unattached, and solitary. 



Seed-leaves, in twos. 



Leaves, petiolated, or almost sessile, opposite or alternate, and 

 leathery. 



Name derived from its native one in Amboyna, where the 

 Malays call it Dammar ' puti,' or ' batu,' on account of the large 

 quantity of resin it produces, which at first is soft, viscid, and 

 transparent, but eventually becomes hard, and like amber. 



All large trees, natives of the East Indian Islands, New 

 Zealand, and New Guinea. 



No. 1. Dammara Australis, Lambert, the Kauri Pine. 



Syn. Agathis Australis, Salisbury. 

 „ Podocarpus zamisefolius, Richard. 



Leaves, linear-oblong, rarely elliptic, flat on both sides, alter- 

 nate and distant on the stem and larger branches, but much 

 closer, opposite and somewhat two-rowed on the branchlets ; 

 from one and a half to two and a half inches long, and from 

 one half to three-quarters of an inch broad at the widest part, 

 thick, leathery, sometimes falcate, of a shining greenish- brown 

 colour, sometimes spotted on the upper part, and of a reddish- 

 copper colour, much less glossy on the under side, frequently 

 twisted and tapering to the base, obtuse at tbe ends, and without 

 footstalks. Branches, of a large size, spreading, numerous, 

 distant, smooth, and divided into numerous smaller ones ; 

 ascending and leafy towards the top of the tree, but naked at 

 the bottom from the falling leaves. Male catkins, solitary, cy- 

 lindrical, erect, more than an inch long, and two lines in dia- 

 meter. Cones, almost spherical, from two to three inches in 



