108 * DAMMARA. 



Gen. DAMMARA. Rumpliius. 



Flowers, dioecious, or male and female on separate plants. 



Cones, ovate or globular, and axillary. 



Scales, persistent, and without bracteas. 



Seeds, unattached, and solitary. 



Seed-leaves, in twos. 



Leaves, petiolated or almost sessile, opposite or alternate, and 

 leathery. 



Name, derived from its native one in Amboyna, where the 

 Malays call it Dammar " puti," or " batu," on account of the 

 large quantity of resin it produces, which at first is soft, viscid, 

 and transparent, but eventually becomes hard, and like amber. 



All large trees, natives of the East Indian Islands, New Zea- 

 land, New Caledonia, and New Guinea. 



The Dammaras are distinguished from the true Pines and 

 Firs by their broad, opposite, or alternate oblong-lanceolate, 

 attenuated, leathery leaves, with parallel veins, and in the 

 male and female flowers being solitary and on separate plants ; 

 they, however, approach nearest to the genus Araucaria in 

 being dioecious, but from which they differ in the form of the 

 scales, in the absence of a bractea to each female flower, and 

 in the seeds being winged only on one side, and. free, or un- 

 attached. 



No. 1. Dammaea Australis, Lambert, the Kauri Pine. 

 Syn. Agathis Australis, Salisbury. 

 Podoearpus zamirefolius, Richard. 

 Leaves linear-oblong, rarely elliptic, flat on both sides, alter- 

 nate and distant on the stem and larger branches, but much 

 closer, opposite and somewhat two-rowed on the branchlets ; 

 from one and a half to two inches and a half long, and from 

 one-half to three-quarters of an inch broad at the widest part, 

 thick, leathery, sometimes falcate, of a shining greenish-brown 

 colour, sometimes spotted on the upper part, and of a reddish 



