THE " CEDAR OF GOA.' 



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tion what name the tree should bear than with the problems 

 concerning its origin. It may suffice to say that in 1784 

 L'Heritier figured and described our plant as C. penclula* a 

 name taken up by Aiton in the first edition of the " Hortus 

 Kewensis," vol. iii. p. 373 (1789). In 1790 Lamarck called it 

 C. glauca,f and in 1804 Brotero adopted Lamarck's name and 

 gave the description cited on p. 2. $ 



Aiton, in the second edition of the "Hortus Kewensis," 

 vol. v. p. 323 (1813), follows Brotero and Lambert in the use 

 of this name. 



It is not needful to pursue any further the record of the 

 Cedar of Goa, as represented in European literature, gardens, 

 and herbaria. Successive writers have merely compiled from 

 their predecessors without giving any additional information. 

 One thing comes out clearly, and that is that the Cedar of Goa 

 of the literature as above cited, and of European gardens, 

 is decidedly the Cuprcssus lusitanica of Miller. The name 

 he gave, or adopted from Tournefort, has been abandoned 

 by some on the ground that the tree is not native to Portugal, 

 but as it is the oldest name, and the oldest trees, whatever their 

 origin, are found in Portugal, it seems better to retain the name 

 lusitanica. 



Whether it is a true native of Portugal, whether it is a true 

 species, or whether it is a derivative from C. sempcrvirens (which 

 grows commonly in Portugal as a cultivated plant), or from the 

 West Himalayan C. torulosa, are all points which I venture to 

 think are still undecided, although, of course, we must not 

 underrate the testimony of Professor Henriques and other 

 Portuguese botanists, who are unanimous, as we have seen, in 

 considering the tree as of Indian origin. 



Before we can discuss these points it is requisite to ascertain 

 what species of Cupressus grow in the vicinity of Goa. 



Professor Henriques, on this head, I.e., cites a Portuguese 

 forest engineer, Seiior Lopes Mendes, as saying that, although 

 he had traversed the whole territory of Goa on duty as forestry 

 commissioner, he never met with any " Cedar " the characters 



* L'Heritier, Stirp, 15, t. 8. 

 + Lamarck, Encycl., ii. p. 243. 



% Brotero, Flora Lusitanica, i. p. 21G ; also under the same name in 

 "Willkomm and Lange, Prod. Flor. Hispan. (1861), i. p. 21. 



