80 DAMMARA. 



broad at the widest part, straight, rarely falcate, smooth and 

 dull green on both faces, somewhat two-rowed on the young 

 branchlets, and distant, those on the young plants almost lance- 

 olate, and sharp-pointed. Branches, vertical, a little reflected, 

 and ascending at the extremities, forming a small head on the 

 adult trees ; branchlets and lateral branches in opposite pairs, 

 and spreading ; male catkins about two inches long. Cones, 

 globular or turbinate, singly, on footstalks, rising from the axil 

 of the leaves, near the extremities of the branches, from three 

 to four inches long, and more than two inches broad. Scales, 

 adpressed, smooth, rounded at the top, thick, and very closely 

 inlaying. Seeds, unattached, with an obtuse, one-sided wing, 

 covering the rib of the scale. 



A huge tree, growing upwards of 100 feet high, with a 

 straight, smooth bark and trunk, from eight to ten feet in 

 diameter, found on the very summit of the mountains of Am- 

 boyna and Ternate, and in many of the Molucca Islands, Java, 

 and Borneo. Timber of little value, but it produces a fine 

 transparent resin, sometimes hanging like icicles, and much 

 esteemed by the natives for incense. Its Malay name is * Dam- 

 mar.' 



It is very tender. 



There is the following variety : — 



Dammatia Orientalis alba, Kniyht. 

 Syn. Dammara alba, Makoy. 

 „ „ Orientalis pallens, Carriere. 



This variety differs from the species in having much longer 

 and more lanceolate-shaped leaves, with the edges more regularly 

 rolled up on the under side, slightly undulated, whitish and 

 tapering much to the point, but abruptly and irregularly so to 

 the base, and with the bark on the branches of a much whiter 

 colour than the species. 



