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ovate, marked with numerous longitudinal parallel lines, margins 

 thickened and reflexed, apex usually blunt and rounded, occasion- 

 ally short-pointed, stalks flattened, |-| in. long. Male floivers 

 in solitary catkins from the leaf axils, 2-3 in long, |-1 in. wide. 

 Female flowers in short, stalked cones. Mature cone round, or 

 rather longer than wide, about 4 in. in diameter ; scales about 

 1 in. across, apex thickened and reflexed. Seeds \ in. long, | in. 

 wide, with a wing | in. across. 



This species, which is closely allied to A. rohusta, is widely 

 distributed in the Malayan and Polynesian region and may well 

 be the type of several other trees which, although given specific 

 rank, are merely geographical forms. 



Wood not represented at Kew, but it appears from descrip- 

 tions to be very similar to that of A. rohusta and to be useful 

 for the same purposes. 



Dammar, darner, or resin, both fossil and recent, is obtained 

 from the tree. Several samples of resin are to be seen in Museum 

 3 at Kew. They vary a good deal in colour and degree of trans- 

 parency, and are named as follows : — 



Damar Merali ; light transparent brown, or dark brown, from 

 ground lumps. 



Damar Batu or Puti ; very pale and clean. 



Damar Poeteh ; small lumps and fine resin collected from 

 incisions made in the trunk. 



There is also a specimen of Pink or Rose Dammar from an 

 unnamed species collected in Borneo, which probably 

 belongs to A. loranthifoUa. The resin in this case is 

 reddish in colour. 



East Indian Dammar is obtained from Malacca, Borneo, Java, 

 Sumatra, and the Moluccas, 



Botanical Magazine, t. 5359 (1863). 



Agathis macrophylla, Masters. 

 Large-leaved Kauri Pine, 



A tree attaining a height of 100 ft., with wide-spreading 

 branches You7ig shoots stout, often quadrangular towards the 

 points, Btids rounded. Leaves ovate or lance-shaped, 3|-7 in, 

 long, f-2 in. wide, leathery, narrowing at the apex to a blunt 

 point, and at the base to a short, flattened stalk, margin recurved, 

 the surface dark green above, paler beneath, marked by numerous 

 parallel lines. Cones erect, up to 3| in, long and 2|-3| in. wide. 



This species is a native of the Solomon Islands and of La 

 Perouse Island, Poljniesia, It was originally discovered by 

 Charles Moore the Australian botanist, and is allied to A. Imrinthi- 

 folia from which it differs in its larger leaves. 



