246 THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS 



B. Staminate flowers ^ inch long: leaves obtuse, usually opposite. .2. A. alba 

 BB. Staminate flowers about 1}/^ inches long: leaves short-acuminate 



to obtuse, often alternate 3. A. robusta 



1. A. australls, Steud. {Davimara australis. Lamb.). Ejvuri-Pine. 

 Fig. 63. Tree to 100 or occasionally to 150 feet tall; bark glaucous gray, 

 falling off in large flakes: leaves opposite, rarely alternate, sessile, oblong or 

 obovate-oblong, /^-Ij^ inches long, obtuse, on young trees oblong to narrow- 

 lanceolate and 2-4 inches long: staminate flowers M~lH inches long, solitary: 

 cone terminal on short branchlets, erect, subglobose, 2-3 inches across; 

 scales terminating in a short mucro. New Zealand. — Introduced in 1821 

 to Great Britain. Cultivated out-of-doors in California, but not very success- 

 fully. Kauri gum, much used in the manufacture of varnish, is the partly 

 fossilized resin of A. australis. It is found 5-6 feet below the surface of the 

 ground in the northern part of New Zealand where there were vast forests 

 of this tree in ages past. 



2. A. alba, Foxw. {A. lor anthi folia, Salisb. A. Dammara, Rich. A. orientalis, 

 Rehd. Dammara alba. Lam. D. orientalis. Lamb.). White D. Tree to 100 

 feet tall: leaves usually opposite, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, 

 2-4 inches long, thickish, striated, dull green: staminate flowers about ^ 

 inches long: cone globose-ovoid, about 33^2 inches long and 2-23/2 inches in 

 diameter. Malayan Archipelago. — Introduced to Great Britain in 1804, 

 Cultivated out-of-doors in California and in greenhouses elsewhere. Both this 

 and the preceding species were introduced to California by Franceschi of 

 Santa Barbara. 



3. A. robusta, F. M. Bailey {Dammara robusta, C. Moore. D. Brownii, 

 Lem.). Robust D. Tree to 150 feet tall, with nearly whorled branches: 

 leaves ovate-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, obtuse to short-acuminate, 

 2-3, rarely to 4 inches long, striated: staminate flowers about 13^^ inches long: 

 cone globose-ovoid to obovoid, 3—4 inches long; seeds nearly 3^ inch long, 

 with an upright wing as long as the seed. Australia. — Introduced to Europe 

 before 1850. Cultivated in California. 



A. obtusa, Morrison {Dammara obtusa, Lindl.), from the New Hebrides, 

 is closely related. It was introduced to Europe in 1851 and is but rarely 

 cultivated in greenhouses in Europe. 



20. KETELEERIA, Carr. 



Evergreen trees with rough irregularly furrowed bark and whorled spread- 

 ing branches, of regular pyramidal habit while young, in old age with a broad 

 flat-topped head; winter-buds globose or ovoid, not resinous: leaves linear, 

 flat or keeled, not grooved above, pale green below, appearing 2-ranked: 

 flowers monoecious, staminate arranged in clusters; anthers 2-celled: cones 



