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

 seeds being winged only on one side^ and free or unattached. 



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 Dammaea Australis glattca. Low, the Glaucous Cowrie 



Pine. 

 A singularly glaucous variety of the New Zealand Cowrie, 

 introduced by Mr. Hugh Low, of the Clapton Nursery, in 1860. 



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Dammara obttjsa, Lindley, the Obtuse-leaved Amber Pine. 

 Syn. Dammara robusta, Moore. 

 „ „ Bidwillii, Hort. 



„ „ Brownii, Hart. 



A large free, with very variable leaves, found in New Cale- 

 donia and islands of the New Hebrides, growing frequently 

 200 feet high. 



New or DorBTFrL Kinds of Dammara,* of which little 



IS AT PRESENT KNOWN. 



Dammara Vitiensis, Seemann, a kind from the Viti or Feejee 



Islands. 

 Dammara ovata, Moore, a tind with small roundish leaves, 



found in New Caledonia. 

 Dammara longifolia, Lindley, a kind with long, broad leaves, 

 found in the Feejee Islands, and probably not different from 

 D. macrophylla. 



* Dr. Seemann doubts whether the Dammara IMoorei of Lindley is not 

 a Podocarpus, owing to its " thin pendulous branches and opposite leaves," 

 no real diSerence, he says, " having as yet been pointed out, if anj such 

 does exist, between a section of the Podocarpus with Dammara-like 

 leaves and the Dammaras." He, however, seems unaware that one has 

 its firuit a drupe, while the other is like a fir-cone, composed of scales. 



