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The common Indian Cypress, or Cedar of Goa.—In Gardens Bombay, and 
the Deccan. It thrives best above the Ghauts.--There are some fine specimens 
in the Peshwa’s old garden at Phoolshaher; and also a little lower down the 
river, at Corygaum, surrounding an Obelisk raised to commemorate the 
battle fought there on Ist January 1818,—The residency at Sattara; Gardens 
Ahmednuggur &c. 
“Here towers the Cypress, preacher to the wise, 
Lessening from earth her spiral honors rise, 
Till as aspear-point rear’d the topmost spray 
Points to the Eden of eternal day.” 
The Lusiad, Book 9, 
“‘ And winding through the verdant vale, 
Flow’d streams of liquid light; 
And fluted Cypresses rear’d up 
Their living obelisks.” 
Southey’s Thalaba. Book 6. 
Almost all the Poets assign these graceful trees to the melancholy office, 
of shading the mansions of the dead; but surely their elegant appearance 
does not justify the hard things some say of them. 
‘* Jubet sepulchris caprificos erutas 
Jubet Cupressus funebris.” 
“Trees, whose horrors gloomy spread 
Round the mansions of the dead.” 
Francis’ Horace. Book 5. Ode, 5. 
—— Poison be their drink! 
“Gall, worse than gall, the daintiest that they taste! 
Their sweetest shade a grove of cypress trees.” 
“ 2nd Part of King Henry 6th: 
“‘Come away, come away, death, 
And in sad cypress let me be laid,” 
Song, in Twelfth Night. 
‘* And oft the living by affection led 
Were wont to walk in spirit with their dead 
Where no dark Cypress cast a doleful gloom.” 
~ Montgomery’s World before the Flood, 
Lieut. Col. Sykes observes, (Madras Journal of Science, No. 22,) the Deccan 
produces none of the Coniferous family, except Cupressus; butit should be 
added, that it is only found in gardens, or planted by the hand of man. 
It was originally intd. at Goa, by the Portuguese, and has since spread over 
the Country. Nota single member of the family has yet been discovered 
wild in Western India, and there is good reason to believe that none exist. 
The Himalayas produce some of them—Pinus excelsa, P. Smithiana. P, 
Brunoniana,—Wall. Asiat. Pl. Rar. 3. ¢. 201. 246 and 247. and in Sylhet 
the Podocarpus latifolia. (1. t. 30.) is found. 
Is there not also some mistake in regard to carrots, turnips and radishes 
heing indigenousin the Deccan?—they are cultivated all over it but have 
not been found wild:—also in regard to the snpposition that the Makur 
Neembonee of the Ghauts, is the original of some ofthe species of Citrus, 
inthe Deccan. It belongs toa different genus, the Atalantia; and could 
not under any cultivation be transformed into a Citrus.—Both belong to the 
same tribe, and the one may be grafted on the other. The Atalantia will 
form a good stock. The Gopher, of which Noah’s Ark was made, Cupres; 
sus and Cafur seem to be derived from the same root, N. 
654. THUJA,L, Monoecia Monadelphia. 
