CHAP. CXIII 



DA'MMARA. 



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this time (February, 1827) the centre shoot produced is nearly 2 ft. high, and 

 is furnished all round with three sets, or tiers, of regular horizontal branches. I 

 may add that this plant flowered with us in January, 1827, and was figured 

 in the Botanical Magazine, t. 2743. In 1826, 1 repeated my experiment on the 

 other plant with the very same success." (Gard. Mag,, ii. p. 4-10.) 



Statistics. In the environs of London the largest plant is in the Hammersmith Nursery, which 

 is upwards of 10ft. high, and would have been twice that height had it not been cut clown, upwards 

 of 10 years ago, on account of its being too high for the house in which it then stood. At Fulharn 

 Palace, it is 5 ft. high ; and there are plants o( about this height in the Horticultural Society's Garden, 

 Messrs. Loddiges's arboretum, Cheslumt, Uavfordbury, and various other places. Those at Clare- 

 rnont, and White Knights, have been already mentioned At Hedleaf, it is 8ft. L 2 in. high. At 

 Edinburgh, in the Botanic Garden, it is 4ft 6 in. high; and in the Experimental Garden, 2ft. 

 din. high. In Ireland, there are plants in the different botanic gardens; and at Oriel Temple there 

 is one, which, in 1834, after being 12 years planted, was 7 ft. high. In Austria, at Vienna, at Laxen- 

 burg, where it receives protection during winter, 5 years planted, it is 6 ft. high. In Italy, at Monza, 

 1U years planted, it is 20ft. high. Price of plants, in the London nurseries, one guinea each. 



GENUS VIII. 



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DA'MMARA Humph. THE DAMMAR, or AMBOYNA, PINE. Lin. Syst. 

 Moncs x cia Monadelphia. 



Synonymes. Pinus Lamb., 

 A'gathis Sal. 



Derivation, From dam- 

 mar, the name, in Am- 

 boyna,of the resin which 

 it produces. 



Description. Large, 

 broad-leaved, evergreen, 

 timber trees, abounding 

 in resin; natives of Am- 

 boyna and New Zealand ; 

 and requiring, in England, 

 the protection of a green- 

 house. 



* 1. 1}. ORIENT A- 



LIS Lamb. The 

 Oriental Dammar 

 Pine, or Amboyna 

 Pitch Tree. 



Identification Lamb. Pin., 



t. 54. 



Xi/nonymt's. Pinus Dam. 

 , mar a Willd. So. PI-., 4. 



p. 503., Lamb. Monog., 



ed. 1., p. 32., Ait. Hort. 



Kew., ed. 2., 5. p. 321. ; 



Ddnimara alba Humph. 



.lt//boi/n.,<2.t.5~.; A ga- 



this /oranthifblia Sal. in 



Linn. Trans., 8. p. 312., 



l.inril. in I'cnn. Ci/c. ; 



A. Ddmmara Rich 



Conif., p. 83. ; A'rbor 



j:ivanui,;>, & c ., Jtafi 



lliKf., .'3., Deinlr. p. l.;o. 

 Engravings Lamb. Pin., 



t. 5i. ; Lin. Trans., 8. 



t. 15. ; Rich. Coi;if t 



81. ; Lamb. Monog.j 



ed. 1., t. 38., and our Jig. 



2309. to our usual scale, 



and Jig. 2308. to the na- 

 tural size. 

 Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves 



opposite, oval-oblong 



parallel.veined, attenu- 

 ated at the base. Cones 



turbinate; scales ad- 



prmed, round at the 



apex. (Lamb. Pin.) A 



2308 



4 ~.-,. \+;n f ft,is. fffl.J /\ 



tree, a native of Amboyna. Introduced in 1804. 



, $,. Rumphius describes it as a very tall tree with 

 7 T 



straight, upright, cylindrical 



