PINETUM DANICUM. 



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punctured parts a drop or two of burning dammar, which has prevented 

 the formation of an ulcer, and scarcely created any pain in the callous 

 hard soles of the Indians. 



" To persons who write much (as clerks and secretaries), the dammar 

 is of some use, for if they have occasion to scrape out a letter or a 

 word, and will afterwards sprinkle a little of the powder on the place 

 from which the erasure has been made, the paper is rendered smooth 

 and susceptible of being again written on ; but the letters soon 

 become faint. 



" The Dammararadj a (called by the Ternaats ^Salo colano') is the 

 same resin as that above described, but only the largest and most 

 transparent pieces, which hang from the upper part of the trunk, free 

 from impurities. That which is found in Batsjana and Hallemahera 

 never turns yellow like the Amboina dammar, but is almost always 

 white, and very gradually acquires any tinge of yellow ; in taste and 

 smell, however, it is the same, and collected from the same kind of 

 tree. This sort alone is employed by the kings of the Moluccas as a 

 suffumitory, whence it obtains the name of royal dammar, and the 

 common people are prohibited from using it. There is some amuse- 

 ment in observing people unacquainted with this substance, who, 

 meeting with it in the shops, take it to be lump sugar ; as it is sold at 

 a very cheap rate, the purchasers seek out the first corner to enjoy a 

 taste of it, but immediately discover their mistake. 



"In books of voyages we sometimes read of large quantities of 

 mastic being found in these islands, but the substance alluded to is 

 no other than the Dammar batu, which, when burnt, emits the same 

 smell." 



28. ARAXTCARIA."-Juss. Gen. 413 ; Hich. Conif. 153, t. 20, 

 21 ; Endl. Conif. 184, and Gen. PI. 261 ; Carr. Conif. 413, 

 595 ; Gord. Pin. 21 ; Henk. and Hochst. Kadelh. 2. Dombeya, Lam. 

 Fl. t. 828. Oolumbea (by many written as Colymbea) and Eutassa, 

 Salisb. in Linn. Trans, viii. 315. Altingia, Don in Loud. Hort. Brit. 

 406. Araucaria and Eutacta, Link in Linnsea, xv. 541, 543 ; Pari, in 

 D. C. Prodr. xvi. 2, 369 ; Lamb. Pin. t. 39, 40, (Dombeya) ii. t. 4, 5, 

 ed. min. t. 56, 62 ; Forb. Pin. Wob. t. 50-56 ; Hook. Lond. 

 Journ. Bot. ii. t. 18 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4635 ; FI. des Serres, tt. 733, 1577, 

 1580, 2221 ; Brongn. and Gris. in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Par. vii. 205, 

 t. 13-16; Eichl. in Mart. Fl. Bras, i^., i. 123, t. 110-112; C. 

 Koch, Dendr. ii. 204 ; Eichl. in Engl, and Prantl. Natlirl. Pflf. ii. 

 67 ; Veitch, Man. Conif. 187 ; Beissner, Nadelholzk. 18, 199. 



Mowers dioecious, sometimes monoecious. 



Cones globular or ovoid and terminal. 



Scales deciduous, or partially so. 



Seeds more or less attached to the scales. 



Leaves scale-like, and widest at the base ; spirally arranged on 



