chap, cxi: 



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this time (February, 1827) the centre shoot produced is nearly 2 ft. high, and 

 is furnished all round with three sets, or tiers, of regular horizontal branches. I 

 may add that this plant flowered with us in January, 1827, and was figured 

 in the Botanical Magazine, t. 2743. In 1826, 1 repeated my experiment on the 

 other plant with the very same success." (Gard. Mag.,n. p. 410.) 



Statistics. In the environs of London the largest plant is in the Hammersmith Nursery, which 

 is upwards of 10ft. high, ami would have been twice that height had it not been cut down, upwards 

 of 1(1 years ago, on account of its being too high for the house in which it then stood. At l-'ulham 

 Palace, it is 5 ft. high ; and there are plants of about this height in the Horticultural Society's Garden, 

 Messrs. Loddiges's arboretum, Cheshunt, Bayfordbury, and various other places. Those at Clare- 

 mont, and White Knights, have been already mentioned At Redleaf, it is 8ft. 2 in. high. At 

 Edinburgh, in the Botanic Garden, it is 4ft. 6' in. high; and in the Experimental Garden, 2ft. 

 Gin. high. In Ireland, there are plants in the different botanic gardens; and at Oriel Temple there 

 is one, which, in 1834, after being 12 years planted, was 7 ft. high. In Austria, at Vienna, at Laxen- 

 burg, where it receives protection during winter, 5 years planted, it is 6 ft. high. In Italy, at Monza, 

 1U years planted, it is 20ft high. Price of plants, in the London nurseries, one guinea each. 



Genus VIII. 



DA' MM All A Rumph. The Dammar, or Amboyna, Pine. 

 Monce^cia Monadelphia. 



Synonymes. Pinus Lamb., 

 A'gathis Sal. 



Derivation. From dam- 

 mar, the name, in Am- 

 boyna,of the resin which 

 it produces. 



Description. Large, 

 broad-leaved, evergreen, 

 timber trees, abounding 

 in resin; natives of Am- 

 boyna and New Zealand ; 

 and requiring, in England, 

 the protection of a green- 

 house. 



1 1. 1). ORIENTA- 

 LS Lamb. The 

 Oriental Dammar 

 Pine, or Amboyna 

 Pitch Tree. 



Identification Lamb. Pin., 



t. 54. 

 Synonymes. Pinus Dam. 

 . mara Willd. Sp. PI., 4. 



p. 503., Lamb. Monog., 



ed. 1., p. 32., Ait. Hort. 



Kew., ed. 2., 5. p. 321. ; 



Ddmmara alba Rumph. 



Amboyn., 2. t. 57. ; A ga- 



this /oranthifblia Sal. in 



1 Ann. Trans., 8. p. 312., 



Lindl. in Penn. Cyc. ; 



A. Ddmmara Rich 



Conif., p. 83. ; A'rbor 



javane'nsis, &c, Raii 



Hist, 3., Dendr. p. 130. 

 Engravings Lamb. Pin., 



t. 54. ; Lin. Trans., 8. 



t. 15. ; Rich. Conif., t. 



81. ; Lamb. Monog., 



ed. 1., t. 38., and our Jig. 



2309. to our usual scale, 



andfig. 2308. to the na- 

 tural size. 

 Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves 



opposite, oval-oblong, 



parallel. veined, attenu- 

 ated at the base. Cones 



turbinate; scales ad- 



pressed, round at the 



apex. (Lamb. Pin.) a 



large tree, a native of Amboyna. Introduced in 1804 



Descnpt.on, %c Rumphius describes it as a very tall tree, with 



7 T 



Lin. Syst. 



2308 



straight, upright, cylindrical 



