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largest quantity of resin of all the New Zealand resiniferous trees. It 

 resembles the resin named Dammara in the East Indies, and is, 

 indeed, produced from a tree of the same genus, and might, con- 

 sequently, be employed for similar purposes for which that resin is 

 used in India, as pitch for ships, varnish, &c., and might form an 

 article of commerce from New Zealand to the colonies of New South 

 Wales and Van Diemen's Land, and England ; from the quantity 

 I have seen obtained from one tree, it may be collected abundantly in 

 a short period of time. The natives name the resin vare, or the ivai 

 (water) of the tree." 



D. Brownii, hort. D. rohusta, Moore. D. Brownii ohtusa,, hort. 

 Habitat. — New Zealand. 



Introduced into France in 1855. Wintered indoors. 



D. orientalis, Lambert. D. alba, Humph. Herb. Amboin. ii^ 

 174, t. 57; Blum. Humph, iii. 212 (not hort.). Arbor javanensis, Visci 

 foliis latioribus, conjugatiSy Dammara alba dicta, Sherard in Rai 

 Hist. iii. and Dendr. 130. Finns Dammara^ Lamb. Pinet. ed. 1, i. 

 61, t. 38 ; Voigt in Syllog. PI. ii. 53. Finns snmatrana, Hort. 

 Belved. ; Mirb. Mem. Mus. xiii. 69 ; Desf. Hort. Par. 356. Abies 

 Dammara, Poir. Diet. v. 35. Abies snmatrana, Desf. I.e. ; Mirb. I.e. 

 Agathis loranthifolia, Salisb. in Linn. Trans, viii. 312, t. 15 ; 

 Blume, Enumer. PI. Jav. 90. Agathis Dammara, Rich. Conif. 83, 

 t. 19. D. loranthifolia, Spach, Hist. Yeg. Phan. xi. 336. D. orientalis, 

 Lamb. Pinet. ed. 2, ii. 70, t. 43 ; Loud. Arbor, iv. 247, f. 2308, 2309, 

 and Encycl. of Trees, 1066, f. 1989 ; Forb. Pinet. Wob. 169, t. 58 ; 

 Endl. Syn. Conif. 189 : Lindl. and Gord. Journ. Hort. Soc. v. 221 ; 

 Knight, Syn. Conif. 45 ; Carr. Man. des PI. iv. 363, and Tr. Gen. 

 Conif. 425 ; Gord. Pinet. 79. D. rubricaulis, Knight, I.e. 



Habitat. — The Molucca Islands, Sumatra, Java, and the Sunda 

 Islands. 



Introduced in 1804. Wintered indoors. 



This species of Dammara is said to produce a tall, upright, 

 straight stem, covered with smooth bark of a dark brown colour, and 

 is much prized for the valuable quality of resin that exudes from the 

 tree. Pumphius, in his "Herbarium Amboinense," lib. 3, cap. 10, 

 gives the following interesting account of its produce: "The 

 pellucid resin which flows from this tree is at first soft and viscous, 

 but within a few days it becomes as hard as stone, and has all the 

 transparency and clearness of crystal, especially that which adheres 

 to the trees, and it will sometimes hang from them in the shape 

 of icicles ; that which flows over the ground, however, becomes 

 black, and mixed with extraneous matter. These icicles (as they 

 may be called) are sometimes as much as a hand in breadth and a 

 foot in length, and exhibit an elegant striated appearance. For the 

 first half-year the resin retains its whiteness and transparency, but 



