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durable as that of the Deodar Cedar, highly valued 
for furniture. The tree seems to prefer the lime- 
stone soil. 
Dacrydium cupressinum, Soland.—New Zealand. 
Native name, imu; the Red Pine of the colonists. 
This stately tree acquires the height of two hundred 
feet, and furnishes a hard and valuable wood. With 
other New Zealand conifers particularly eligible for 
our forest valleys. A most suitable tree for cemete- 
ries, on account of its pendulous branches. 
Dacrydium Franklini, Hook., fil.—Huon Pine of 
Tasmania; only found in moist forest recesses, and 
might be planted in our dense fern- tree gullies. 
Height of tree one hundred feet ; stem-circumference 
twenty feet. The wood is highly esteemed for ship- 
building and various artisan’s work. 
Dammara alba, Rumph. (D. orientalis, Lamb. )— 
Agath Dammar. Indian Archipelagos and mainland. 
A large tree, one hundred feet high, with a stem of 
eight feet in diameter ; straight and branchless for 
two thirds its length. It is of great importance on 
account of its yield of the transparent Dammar resin, 
extensively used for varnish. 
Dammara Australis, Lamb.—IKauri Pine. North 
island of New Zealand. This magnificent tree meas- 
ures, under favorable circumstances, one hundred and 
eighty feet in height, and seventeen feet in diameter 
of stem; the estimated age of such a tree being 
seven hundred or eight hundred years. It furnishes 
an excellent timber for furniture, masts of ships, or 
almost any other purpose ; it yields, beside, the Kauri 
resin of commerce, which is largely got from under 
the stem of the tree, The greatest part is gathered 
