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to bear too strong a resemblance to it, and accordingly it was after- 

 wards changed by Mr. Brown to Cunningliamia, by which name it 

 was first described by M. Richard in his "Me'moires sur les Coniferes." 

 For many years after it was first introduced it was kept in the green- 

 house, but in 1816 a plant was turned out into a sheltered part of 

 the pleasure-ground at Claremont. 



It was named in compliment to Mr. James Cunningham, who dis- 

 covered it in the neighbourhood of Canton in 1702. 



Young plants did very well out of doors here in the winter of 

 1890-91 ; two or three of them were covered with leaves over the 

 roots, and branches of Fir over the top, but such care seemed quite 

 unnecessary, as the less protected plants succeeded even better. 



It seems rare on the Continent, even in Germany. 



27. DAMMARA (or Agathis). — Eumph. Herb. Amboin. ii. 174 ; 

 Lamb. Pin. ed, 2, 70 ; Endl. Conif. 108 ; Hook. fil. Fl. of New 

 Zeal. 231 ; Carr. Conif. 424, 677 ; Gord. Pin. 77 ; Henk. and Hochst. 

 Nadelh. 209. Pini sp. Lamb. Pin. ed. 1, i. 61. Abietis sp. Poir. 

 Diet. V. 35. Agathis, Salisb. Linn. Trans, viii. 311 ; Rich. Conif. 

 151, t. 19 ; Pari, in D. C. Prodr. xvi. 2, 374 ; Forb. Pin. Wob, t. 

 58, 59 ; Eichl. in Engl, and Prantl. Natllrl. Pflf. ii. 66. 



Flowers dioecious. 



Cones ovoid or globular, and axillary. 

 Scales persistent, and without bracts. 

 Seeds unattached and solitary. 

 Cotyledons two. 



Leaves petiolate or almost sessile, opposite or alternate, and 

 leathery. 



Name derived from its native one in Amboina, where the Malays 

 call it Dammar " puti," or " batu," on account of the large quantity 

 of resin it produces, which at first is soft, viscid, and transparent, but 

 eventually becomes hard and like amber. 



All large trees, natives of the East Indian Islands, New Zealand, 

 New Caledonia, and New Guinea. 



The Dammaras are distinguished from the true Pines and Firs by 

 their broad, opposite or alternate, oblong-lanceolate, attenuated, 

 leathery leaves, with parallel veins, and in the male and female 

 flowers being solitary and on separate plants ; they, however, 

 approach nearest to the genus Araucaria in being dioecious, but they 

 differ from it in the form of the scales, in the absence of a bract 

 to each female flower, and in the seeds being winged only on one side, 

 and free, or unattached. 



D. australis, Lambert, Pin, ed. 2, ii. 73, t. 44 ; A. Cunningh. 

 Ann. of Nat. Hist. i. 211 ; Loud. Arbor, iv. 2449, f. 2310, 2311, 

 and Encycl. of Trees, 1066, f. 1990 ; Zucc. in Abhandl. der Mathem. 



