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copper colour, much less glossy on the under side, frequently 

 twisted and tapering to the base, obtuse at the ends, and with- 

 out foot-stalks. Branches of a large size, spreading, numerous, 

 distant, smooth, and divided into numerous smaller ones ; as- 

 cending and leafy towards the top of the tree, but naked at 

 the bottom from the fallen leaves. Male catkins solitary, 

 cylindrical, erect, more than an inch long, and two lines in 

 diameter. Cones almost spherical, from two to three inches in 

 diameter, solitary, erect, and produced near the top of the 

 branches on stout foot-stalks. Scales broad, spreading, wedge- 

 shaped, thick, leathery, closely imbricated, acute on the apex, 

 very smooth, and becoming smaller towards the base of the 

 cone, thicker externally towards the apex, wood} 7- , hard, and 

 membranaceous on the margin. Seeds in twos, wedge-shaped, 

 and brown, having at the top on one side a thin, transparent, 

 quite entire, oblique, pale-coloured wing. 



A large tree, attaining a height of from 120 to 150 feet, and 

 about 24 feet in circumference, naked two-thirds of its entire 

 height, and covered with a level, thick, lead-coloured bark, full 

 of resinous matter. It produces an excellent hard brittle resin, 

 like copal. 



It is found in the northern parts of New Zealand, in forests 

 close by the River Thames, towards the district of Mercury 

 Inlet ; also upon the north side of the Island of Wangaroa, 

 and towards the western side of the Hokianga. The natives 

 call it " Kauri," or " Kouri," and the settlers " Cowrie." 



It is not hardy. 



Dammara Australis glauca, Loiv, the Glaucous Cowrie Pine. 

 A singularly glaucous variety of the New Zealand Cowrie, 

 introduced by Mr. Hugh Low, of the Clapton Nursery, in 

 11860. 



No. 2. Dammara hypoleuca, Moore, the White Under-leaved 



Dammara. 

 Syn. Dammara brevifolia, Hovt. 

 Leaves oblong-lanceolate, obtuse at the ends, bright shining 



