P INUS DEODARA
INDIAN CRD AR.
P. Deodara, foliis fasriculatis pereöüafltibüs acutis triquetris rigidis, strobilis geminis ovalibus obtusis erectis :
squanlis appressis,
Pititts Deodar. Rooeb. F l Ind. itied.
Habitat in Indiæ Orientalis montibus ad urbis Rohilcund Septentrionem. Roxburgh.
D E S C R IP T IO .
Arbor maxima, triiticö ctassissimo ad usque 3—4 pedes diametro. Rami ampli, patentissimi, superné foliosi.
Ramuli assurgentes, tuberculosi è basi foliorum persistente, cortice cinereo obducti. Folia in fasciculis
numerosa, rigida, perennantia, triquetra, sesquipollicaria, acicularia, viridia, lucida, bicanaliculata, apice
acuta, callosa. Strobili pedunculo tereti crasso dichotomo gemini, ovales, obtusissimi, erecti, vix bipol-
licares, crassitie unciales et ultrà : squamis latissimis, transversè oblongis, lamelliformibus, ferrugineo-
fuscis, appressè imbticâtis, margine integerrimis atque planis, ferè membranaceis. Semina parva,
cuneata: ala obovata, membranacea, fusca.
The Pinus Deodara is a tree of great size, and is rendered interesting by its near affinity to the Cedar of
Lebanon. In the Hindustanee language it is called Devadara or “God Tree,” and is held in great veneration
by the Hindoos. The cones grow in pairs on a shortish, thick, woody, forked footstalk. Those of the Pinus
Cedrus are almost sessile and solitary. The leaves are also different from those of P. Cedrus, being longer, and
more distinctly 3-sided. I have received from Dr. Wallich a section of the trunk of the P. Deodara, measuring
nearly four feet in diameter. The wood is very resinous, and possesses a strong turpentine smell, very
different from that of the Cedar of Lebanon; but it is so very porous, and of so coarse a grain, that I should
judge it to be of very little use, unless for fuel.