78 DAMMARA. 



diameter, solitary, erect, and produced near the top of the 

 branches on stout footstalks. Scales, broad, spreading, wedge- 

 shaped, thick, leathery, closely imbricated, acute on the apex, 

 and very smooth, becoming smaller towards the base of the 

 cone, thicker externally towards the apex, woody, hard, and 

 membranaceous on the margin. Seeds, in twos, wedge-shaped 

 and brown ; having at the top on one side, a thin, transparent, 

 quite entire, oblique, pale-coloured wing. 



A large tree, attaining a height of from 120 to 150 feet, and 

 about twenty-four feet in circumference, naked two-thirds of its 

 entire height, and covered with a level, thick, lead-coloured 

 bark, full of resinous matter. It produces an excellent hard 

 brittle resin, like copal. 



It is found in the northern parts of New Zealand, in forests 

 close by the River Thames, towards the district of Mercury- 

 Inlet; also upon the north side of the Island ofWangarow, and 

 towards the western side of the Hokianga. The natives call 

 it ' Kauri,' or ' Kouri,' and the settlers, * Cowrie.' 

 It is not hardy. 



No. 2. Dammara macrophylla, Lindley, the long-leaved 

 Dammara. 



Leaves, very large, ovate, lanceolated, and pointed ; seven 

 inches long, and two broad in the widest part. Cones, ovate- 

 obtuse, very like those of the Cedar of Lebanon in size and 

 form. Scales, smooth, regularly inlaying, and much wider 

 than long. 



A large tree, growing 100 feet high, very much resembling 

 the Amboyna Pine (Dammara Orientalis), but with larger cones 

 and leaves. It was discovered by Mr. Moor, on the island of 

 Vanicolla, one of the Queen Charlotte group in the South Seas. 



It is very tender. 



No. 3. Dammara Moori, Lindley, Mr. Moor's Dammara. 



Leaves, very narrow-lanceolate, acuminate, slightly falcate, 

 and slender, from five to six inches long, and less than half-an- 

 inch wide. Cones, unknown. 



