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577 Podocarpus latifolia, Wall. 



A small evergreen tree of the South- Western 

 Peninsula. Cultivated in the Lal-Bagh. 



578 Dammara robusta, C. Moore. 



The Queensland Kauri pine. Introduced from 

 Australia and cultivated in the Botanical Gardens. 

 Of this splendid evergreen tree, Mr. Walter Hill 

 writes as follows ; — "Diameter of trunk 36 to 72 in; 

 height 80 to 130 feet. This huge tree inhabits the 

 alluvial banks on the rivers near the coast in the 

 Wide Bay district ; also in the moist and sheltered 

 valleys on Frazer's Island. It has a smooth-barked 

 trunk, of a red colour ; the branches are produced 

 in whorls of 5 to 10, distant, spreading, and of a 

 large size. The wood is fine grained, free of knots 

 and easily Avorked. It is, however, not a plentiful 

 tree. At the present time — 1880 — the sawyers are 

 receiving 7s-. 6d, for 100 superficial feet. Some 

 trees yield as much as 25,000 feet. " 



579 Dammara Australis, Lambert. 



, The Kauri pine of New Zealand. Cultivated in 

 the Botanical gardens and growing well. " This 

 magnificent tree measures, under favorable circum- 

 stances, 180 feet in height and 17 feet in diameter 

 of stem ; the estimated age of such a tree being 700 

 or 800 years. " Baron von Mueller. The timber 

 afforded by these two species of Dammara is re- 

 markable for its uniformity of grain, exemption 

 from knots, and size of plank. The kauri 

 resin of New Zealand is a curious product 

 which the Maoris gather mostly from the sites of 

 extinct kauri forests. Cones are produced on the 

 Bangalore trees, and a few self-sown seedlings have 

 recently been discovered in flower pots standing 

 adjacent to one tree ; this is very encouraging as all 

 hand sowings of the seed produced from this tree 

 bad failed entirely, and it was thought that the seed 

 was sterile. A deep soil coutaining plenty of 



