CED RU S DEODARA.
nos.—PIN US DEODARA, Lambert, Genus Pinus, ed. r, ii. p. 8 (1824): «1. 2, ii. p. 93 (1828). Roxburgh, Flor. Ind. Or. iii.
p. 651 (1832). Antoine, Com/., p. 59 (1840). Endlicher, Syn. Com/., p. 135 (1847). Lawfon. Abietina, p. 22 (1851).
CEDRUS DEODARA, Lawfon, Agric. Manual, p. 381 (1836). Loudon, Arboretum, iv. p. 2428 (1838). Forbes, Pinet.
Woburn., p. 149 (1839). Link, in Linnaa, xv. p. 538 (1841). Spach, Hiß. Nat. V(g. P/tancr., xi. p. 430(1842). Hoffmeifter,
in Bot. Zeit., p. 185 (1846). Madden, in the Journ. 0/the Agric. and Hort. Soc. 0/India, vii. p. 75 (1849-50) ; and
in the Journ. Hort. Soc., v. p. 250 (1850). Knight, Syn. Coni/., p. 42 (1850). Carrière, Traité Gén. des Coni/., p. 281 (1855).
Gordon, Pinetum, p. 40 (1858) ; and Supplement, p. 19 (1862). Hooker, in Nat. Hiß. Rev., No. v. p. 16 (Jan. 1862).
CEDRUS INDICA, De Chambray, Traite Prat. Arb. liés. Coni/., p. 341 (1845).
ABIES DEODARA, Lindley, in Penny Cyclop., p. 9 (1833). Lindley and Gordon, in Journ. Hort. Soc., v. p. 214 (1850.)
DEODAROO or DEVA-DARU of the Shaftras.
DIYAR of the Khuifyas.
DEEWAR of the Gorkalees. > Indian Names.
KELON-KEOOL-KALEE. KELTOO of Bufehur and N.W. Gurhwal. I
KELMUNG or KJELMANG of Konnawur.
;s.—Cone, Leaves, &c., Lambert, Genus Pinus, ed. 1, t. s. n.; ed. 2, t. 52. Antoine, Coni/., t. 22, fig. 2. Loudon, Arboretum, iv., figs.
2283, 2284, 2286. Forbes, Pinet. Woburn.. t. 48-49. Hooker, Nat. Hift. Rev., p. 16 for Jan. 1862.
Tree, Lambert, Genus Pinus, ed. 2, t. 52 a. Loudon, Arboretum, iv. fig. 2285.
Specific CkaraSler.—Ccdrus ramis pendulis, foliis patentibus laxiufculis, ftrobilis fquamis bafi haud
inflexis, feminibus alis, fubito expanfis.
Habitat in Montibus Himmalayaicis.
A large horizontally-branched tree, with its leader and young branchlets pendulous or drooping; the
bark brown, with a whitifh lu ft re. Branchlets fomewhat tuberculofe from the perfiftent bafesof the fafcicuh
of leaves. Leaves growing on the branches in tufts, which are compofed of from twenty to fixty in number.
On the younger twigs they do not grow in tufts, but folitary. Each tuft may be called an arretted bud ;
and this accounts for the readinefs with which, when the leader is nipped by froft, or otherwife hurt, it is
replaced by another ftarting from the next bud immediately behind the portion of the leader which is
deftroyed. They are light-green and glaucous when young, lefs glaucous and darker green as they become
older. They are triquetral (the midrib being prominent on the inner fide and rounded
on the back), ftiff, perennial, from half an inch to two inches in length, acicular acute. / ^
There are about four rows of ftomata on each fide of the midrib of the inner fide, and / , \ [>
one or two lines of ftomata, or fometimes only a few irregular fcattered ftomata, on the
rounded outer fide [figs, 1, 2, and 3]. The male catkins are numerous, folitary at firft,
oblong, oval, and obtufe, afterwards more cylindrical. The ftamens are fub-cylindrical,
bilocular, and with a triangular terminal oblique fcale [figs. 4 and 5]. The female
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cones are at firft feflile, folitary, of a cylindrical form, of a pea-green colour, covered with
a delicate velvety bluifh bloom. As they advance in growth, they ftand erect and folitary on a fmall peduncle
on the upper fide of the branches, and become brown. They are oval, very obtufe, from two to five inches
in length, and from one to two and a half inches in diameter. In their early green ftage they have a molt
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