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spiritual things, do not appear to hold this Cypress in much 

 religious veneration, but, on the contrary, use its timber freely 

 in their house building, where it is considered very durable, 

 but too flexible for any position where it has to sustain a heavy 

 weight. The wood is yellowish red, very odoriferous, close- 

 grained, tough, long-fibred, and very hard, the larger trees not 

 unfrequently attaining an enormous size, some of them having a 

 girth of twenty-seven feet, but at its greatest altitude it gets 

 dwarfed down to a mere bush, and is nowhere to be found 

 beyond from 7,000 to 8,000 feet of elevation, and like the 

 Deodar, seems indifferent to geology, growing equally well 

 on clay-slate, dolomatic limestone, gneiss, and mica-slate ; but 

 a dry and somewhat sunny site seems essential for its full deve- 

 lopment. 



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 CuPRESSUS Uhdeana, Gordon, Mr. Uhde's Mexican Cypress. 

 Syn. Cupressus Schomburgkii, Van Houtte. 

 This kind has a number of small white specks irregularly 

 scattered over the smaller spray, which forms scale-like glands 

 on the backs of ihe minute leaves. It is one of the hardiest of 

 Mexican kinds. 



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Cupressus Whitleyana, Hort, the Upright Indian Cypress. 



Syn. Cupressus Doniana, Hort. 



A tall pyramidal tree, resembling the common upright Cypress, 



found plentiful in Nepal, and about as hardy as the Cupressus 



torulosa. 



Gen. DAMMAEA, Rumphius, the Amber Pines. 



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. 



