160 PHYSIOGNOMY OF PLANTS. 



(on Mounts Parnassus, Taygetus, and (Eta) a long needled 

 variety (foliis apice integris, breviter mucronatis), the Abies 

 Apollinis of Link. (Linnsea, Bd. xv. 1841, S. 529 ; and 

 Endlicher, Synopsis Coniferarum, p. 96.) 



On the Himalaya the Comferse are distinguished by the 

 great thickness and height of their trunks, and by the 

 length of their leaves. The Deodwara Cedar, Pinus deo- 

 dara (Roxb.), (properly, in Sanscrit, dewa-daru, timber of 

 the Gods), which is from 12 to 13 J feet' thick, is the great 

 ornament of the mountains. It grows in Nepaul to 11000 

 (11720 E.) feet above the level of the sea. More than 

 2000 years ago the Deodara supplied the materials for the 

 fleet of Nearchus on the Hydaspes (the present Behut). 

 In the valley of Dudegaon, north of the copper mines of 

 Dhunpour in Nepaul, Dr. Hoffmeister, so early lost to 

 science, found the Pinus longifolia of Boyle (the Tschelu 

 Pine) growing among tall stems of the Chamserops martiana 

 of Wallich. (Hoffmeister's Brief e aus Indien wahrend der 

 Expedition des Prinzen Waldemar von Preussen, 1847, S. 

 851.) Such an intermixture of pineta and palmata had 

 excited the surprise of . the companions of Columbus in the 

 New Continent, as a friend and cotemporary of the Admiral, 

 Petrus Martyr Anghiera, has informed us. (Dec. iii. lib. 

 10, p. 68.) I saw myself this intermixture of pines and 

 palms for the first time on the road from Acapulco to Chil- 

 panzingo. The Himalaya, like the Mexican highlands, has, 

 besides Pines and Cedars, also the forms of Cypresses (Cu- 

 pressus torulosa (Don), of Yews (Taxus wallichiana, Zuc- 

 car.), of Podocarpus (P. nereifolia, Robert Brown), and of 



