CEDRUS DEODARA. 4 LI 



request in Algeria and adjacent countries. The heart-wood is used for 

 railway ties which last from eight to ten years ; it has also been 

 used with good results for street paving ; the outer portion is 

 prepared for carpentry and especially for cabinet making and decorative 

 purposes on account of its beautiful veining.* 



Cedrus Deodara. 



A lofty robust tree 200 250 feet high, the girth of the trunk 

 near the base 1520 feet, very gradually diminishing upwards, at 

 80 feet being about one-third less than at the base. Bark of old 

 trees 1 1*5 inch thick, dark grey, often tinged with brown or purple 

 and fissured by longitudinal dark furrows and short transverse cracks 

 into long irregular plates, f Branches mostly horizontal, the lower ones 

 often depressed by the weight of their appendages. Branchlets 

 distichous, opposite or alternate, decurved or sub-pendulous at the distal 

 end, the axial terminal shoots quite pendulous in young and vigorous- 

 growing trees, and covered with whitish brown bark. Leaves persistent 

 three four years, fascicled on short " spurs," each tuft consisting of 

 thirty sixty leaves; on the terminal shoots solitary and scattered, 

 0'75 1 inch long, sub-triquetral or obscurely four-angled, light green, 

 becoming much darker with age. Staminate flowers as in Cedrus 

 Libani. ' Cones sessile or sub-sessile, erect, ovoid or ovoid-cylindric, 

 3 5 inches long and 2 3 inches in diameter ; scales flabellately 

 triangular, 2 2 '5 inches broad, with the outer edge rounded. Seed 

 wings triangular with rounded sides. 



Cedrus Deodara, London, Arb. et Frut. Brit. IV. 2428, with figs. (1838). Forbes, 

 Pinet. Woburn, 149, tt. 48, 49. Link in Linnsea, XV. 538. Carriere, Traite Conif. 

 ed. II. 367. Brandis, Forest Fl. N.W. India, 516. Gordon, Pinet. ed. II. 61. 

 Lawson, Pinet. Brit. Ill 225, tt. 39 43, with tigs. Aitchison in Journ. Linn. Soc 

 XVIII. 98. Beissner, Nadelholzk. 305, with fig. Masters in Journ. R. Hort. Soc. 

 XIV. 200. 



C. Libani var. Deodara, Hooker fil, Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 653. 



Pinus Deodara, Lambert, Genus Pinus, II. t. 3. Endlicher, Synops. Conif. 135. 

 Parlatore, D. C. Prodr. XVI. 408. 



Eng Deodar, Indian Cedar. Fr. Cedre de 1'Himalaya. Germ. Himalaya Ceder. 

 Ital. Cedro indiano. 



Since its introduction, varieties of the Deodar have originated in 



British and Continental nurseries, which have been named respectively : 



argentea, in which the glaucescence of the foliage is heightened to 



almost silvery whiteness; aurea, the young foliage of a decided yellow 



tint which changes with age to the normal green of the species ; 



Crassifolia, the leaves thicker and shorter; robusta, the branches and 



their appendages larger and stouter ; verticillata glauca, the leaves of 



the young shoots whorled instead of scattered and quite glaucous ; 



viridiS, the foliage of a deeper green than in the ordinary type. 



The Deodar Cedar is distributed over a limited area in north-west 



India. It forms forests on the mountains of Afghanistan, north 



Baluchistan, and the north-west Himalaya, where its eastern limit is 



below the Mti Pass on the Dauli river. Its vertical range is from 



6,000 to 10,000 feet, descending in some places to 3,500 feet and ascending 



* Journal of the Society of Arts, September, 1895. 

 f Brandis, Forest Flora of North-west India, p. 185. 



