112 DAMMARA. 



top, thick, and very closely inlaying. Seed unattached, with 

 an obtuse, one-sided wing, covering the rib of the scale. 



A huge tree, growing upwards of 100 feet high, with a 

 straight, smooth bark and trunk, from eight to ten feet in 

 diameter, found on the very summit of the mountains of Am- 

 boyna and Ternate, and in many of the Molucca Islands, 

 Java, and Borneo. Tim.ber of little value ; but it produces a 

 fine transparent resin, sometimes hanging like icicles, and 

 much esteemed by the natives for incense. Its Malay name 

 is "Dammar." 



It is very tender. ' 



There is the following variety : — 



Dammara Oeientalis alba. Knight. 

 Syn. Dammara alba, MaJcoy. 

 „ „ Orientalis pallens, Carriere. 



This variety differs from the species in having much longer 

 and more lanceolate-shaped leaves, with the edges more regu- 

 larly rolled up on the under side, slightly undulated, whitish, 

 and tapering much to the point, but abruptly and irregularly 

 so to the base, and with the bark on the branches of a much 

 whiter colour than the species. 



No. 7. Dammara ovata, Moore, the Ovate-leaved Dammara. ' 

 Leaves more or less opposite, subdistich, ovate-oblong or 

 ovate-lanceolate, somewhat acute, leathery in texture, bright 

 green, on rather short, twisted petioles, and from four and a 

 half to five inches long, and from one to one inch and a half 

 broad. Cones large, erect, oval-globose, obtuse at the ends, and 

 five inches long and four inches broad. Scales broad, obovate, 

 more or less horizontal, somewhat thickened at the top, and 

 rounded and entire on the edges, and one inch and a half 

 broad. 



A large tree, found in New Caledonia, with subvert! ciUate 

 and somewhat horizontal, terete branches, and a stem covered 

 with an ashy-gray bark, copiously producing a white resinous 

 matter. 



