PXNUS DEODAR A 



INDIAN CEDAR. 



P* DeodarAj foliis fasciculatis perennantibus acutis triquetris rigidis, strobili's geminis ovalibus obtusis erectis 



squamis appressis. 



Pinus Deodar; Rowb, FL Ind, ined. 



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Habitat in Indite Orientalis montibus ad urbis Rohilcund Septentrionem. Roxburgh. 







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DESCRIPTIO. 



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Arbor maxima, trunco crassissimo ad usque 3—4 pedes diametro, . Rami ampli, patentissimi» supern^ foliosi. 

 Ramuli assurgentes, tuberculosi e basi foliorum persistente, cortice cinereo obducti. Folia in fasciculis 

 numerosaj rigida, pereunantia, triquetra, sesquipollicaria, acicularia, viridia, lucida, bicanaliculataj apice 

 acuta, callosa. Strobili peduuculo tereti crasso dichotomo geraini, ovales, obtusissimi, erecti, vlx bipol- 



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licares, crassitie unciales et ultra : squamis latissimis, transversa oblongis, lamelliformibus, ferrugineo- 

 fuscisj apprcss^ imbricatis, margine integerrimis atque planis, fer^ membranaceis. Semina parva, 

 cuneata: ala obovata, membranacea, fusca. 



The Pinus Deodara is a tree of great size, and is rendered interesting by its near affinity to the Cedar of 

 Lebanon- In the Hindustanee language it is called Devadara or "God Tree," and is held in great venera- 

 tion by the Hindoos. The cones grow in pairs ou a shortish, thick, woody, forked footstalk. Those of the Pinus 

 Cedrns are almost sessile and solitary. The leaves are also different from those of P. CedruSy being longer, and 

 more distinctly 3-sided. I have received from Dr. Wallich a section of the trunk of the P, Deodara^ measuring 



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nearly four feet in diameter. The wood is very resinous, and possesses a strong turpentine smell, very 

 different from that of the Cedar of Lebanon ; but it is so very porous, and of so coarse a grain, that I should 

 judge it to be of very little use, unless for fuel. 



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