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PINACE^. 



name applied by the Seris or primitive settlers from Catay or China ; 

 wMle the natives of Zealand call their Wax Pines "Kouri;" and 

 the settlers call it "Cowrie Pine;" all of which vernacular designa- 

 tions are again found in as many dialects as the countries where 

 the wax pines have their habitats, whether in the East India or the 

 Peejee Islands, or JSTew Guinea or Kew Zealand. All however, of 

 which names are traceable to ceraceous resine; and which may be from 

 Greek Ktpoc "wax," or Sanscrit "wax," and Amra^ "a 



tree," or Ahmra, "immortal;" from the large quantity of soft, trans- 

 parent, glutinous, and ceraceous juice which these pines produce, and 

 which when dried is hard as adamant, and amber or wax-like ; hence 

 my name Pinguecerce for the S.D. to which Dammara belongs. 



Flowers, male and female, solitary and on separate plants. 



Leaves, of various sizes, from one to seven inches long, lanceolate, 

 linear, oblong, or elliptic; somewhat sessile; opposite or alternate, 

 sharp or blunt-pointed, and more or less flat and leathery ; of various 

 degrees of light and dark, and of yellowish or brownish-green shades 

 of colour. 



Cones, ovate or globular in form, from two to four inches long, 

 axillary and with footstalks, scales thick and persistent, seeds generally 

 free, singly, or in pairs, more or less winged, and of a brownish colour. 



Dammara AustraLIS : The IS"ew Zealand Kouri. 



A large, handsome tree, attaining heights of from one hundred to 

 one hundred and fifty feet, being surcharged with a very hard, brittle, 

 copal-lilvc juice. It has also a Glauca^ (glaucous -leaved,) and Ohtusa, 

 (obtuse-leaved form;) all of which are much too tender for an 

 English winter. 



Dammara MooRI: Moore's Dammara. 



This is said to be a small-sized, erect- stemmed, and compact-growing 

 kind; with long, slender, lanceolate leaves, found in ^sTew Caledonia. 

 Never having seen it, I can neither assent nor dissent to its being either 

 a species, quasi-species, variety, or sub-variety ; but methinks whatever 

 it may be, it will be thoroughly tender in such a climate as ours. 



Dammara OrientalIS : The Western or Amboyna Kouri. 



This is a large spreading tree, in the Molucca Islands, Java, and 

 Eorneo, attaining heights of from eighty to one hundred and thirty 

 feet ; with its branches vertically disposed, and tolerably well clothed 

 with thick, glabrous, and glaucous green foliage : remarkable for its 

 abundance of transparent wax -like resin, which is frequently found 

 hanging from the branch-stems and trunks like icicles. This tree is 



