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TAB. 38. 



32. PINUS DAMMARA. 



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AMBOINA PITCH PINE 



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PiNus Dammara, foliis oppositis elliptico-lanceolatis stiiatis. 



Dammara alba. Rumpli. Aiiihoin. v. 2. l^A. t. 6^. 



Arbor Javanensis Visci foJIis latloribus conjugatis, Dammara alba dicta. D. Sherard. Rail. HisL v. 3. 

 de?idr,J30, Herb. Sherard. 



Habitat in Amboinse cxcelsis montibus solo argillaceo. 



DESCRIPTIO. 



Arbor, ex aiictoritate Rumphii, abietiformis, excelsa, caudice simplici, tereti, glabro, coma parva. ■ 

 Ra?mdi foliosi, tetragoni, glabri. Folia opposita, decussata, brevius petiolata, elHptlco-lanceolata, 

 obtusa, integerrima, coriacea, glaberrima, nitida, nervis plurimis parallelis obsolete striata. Strohilus 

 ovatas, squamis obtusis, muticis, supra marginatis. Semlna elliptica, compressa, sulcata, apice emar. 

 ginata, hinc alata, ala rotuudato-caneiformi. ■ 



Having but lately become acquainted with this curious species, I am obliged to introduce it as an 

 appendix to the rest. Its most natural place in the genus is near P. lanceolata. For the specimens 

 represented in the plate I am obhged to Sir Joseph Banks, in whose herbarium the leaves are preserved, 

 and who has lately received fragments of the cone from Mr. Christopher Smith, Botanist to the East 

 India Company, at Amboina. Dr. Smith has also discovered a specimen of the leaves in the Sherardian 

 herbarium at Oxford, among the plants collected by Dampier. From these materials, and the account 

 given by Rumphius, all our knowledge of this tree is derived. What he has accidentally (as he was 

 ignorant of the sexes of plants) called the male and female trees, appear to us to be really so, and that 

 this species is dioecious. His account of the valuable resin for which it is most remarkable is here 

 subjoined. 



The following is an account of the resinous substance produced by this tree, which is well known in 

 India under the name of Dammar -Put I, Bammar-Batii, or White Dammar, and has been thus 

 described by Rumphius, in his Herbarium Aniboinense. (Lib. 3. cap. 10.) 



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' The pellucid resin which flows from this tree is at first soft and viscous, but within a few days it 

 becomes as hard as stone, and has all the transparency and whiteness of crystal, especially that which 

 adheres to the trees, and it will sometimes hang from them in the shape of icicles ; that which flows to 



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