Cupressus. | CXLIV. CONIFERZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 645 
Leaves distichous, flat ; scales of small.reflexed cone persistent 11. Tsuea. 
Leaves more or less distichous, linear; scales of large erect 
cone deciduous. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12. ABIES. 
Lenves deciduous in bundles of many, acicular; scales of erect 
cones persistent... . . . . . . . . . . .18. LARIS 
1. CUPRESSUS, Lin. 
Evergreen, moncecious trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, small and 
scale-like, very rarely subulate, densely appressedly imbricate and decurrent. 
Male fl. a subsessile terminal column of decussately opposite 2-6-celled 
peltate anthers. Fem. fl. a globose or shortly oblong cone of 3-6 series 
of opposite peltate at length woody scales, with 4-6 erect ovules at the 
base of the 2nd and 3rd series. Seeds small, winged ; testa coriaceous or 
hardened ; cotyledons 2-4.— Species about 12, S.E. Europe, Temp. Asia 
and America. 
C. glauca, Lamk. Encycl. ii. 243 (DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 470; Brand. For. Fl. 
534; Dalz. § Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 83. C. lusitanica, Mill. Gard. Dict.; Willd. 
Sp. Pl. iv. 511), commonly known as the Goa Cypress, is extensively cultivated in 
the Western Ghats, and thence introduced into Portugal. It is doubtful whether 
ìt is referable to C. torulosa or C. sempervirens. —The Yunan Libocedrus macrolepis, 
Benth. (Gen. Pl. iii. 426) (Calocedrus macrolepis, Kurz in Trimen Journ. Bot. 
(1873) 196, t. 133), with elongate cylindric cones and flattened branches, may be 
expected to be found in the mountains of N.W. Burma. 
l. C. torulosa, Don Prodr. 55; crown broadly pyramidal, branches 
Spreading tips pendulous, leaves triangular-ovate obtuse, cones sessile 
erect i in. diam. bluish, scales rugose, seeds narrowly winged. End’. 
Conif. 58; Parlat. in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 469; Wall. Cat. 6046; Brand. 
For. Fl. 533; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 410; Griff. Itin. Notes 240 ; Ie. Pl. 
Asiat. t. 379. 
WESTERN HrwALAYA; from Nepal to Chamba, alt. 5500-8000 ft., on dry 
slopes, 
A. tree, attaining 150 ft., and girth of trunk 17 ft.; branches with the leaves 
on terete or obscurely 4-angled. Leaves zy in. long, with an oblong gland on eithez 
side of the midrib.” Anthers 3-4. Scales of cone 8-10, umbonate, 4-6-ovuled. 
Seeds nearly orbicular, nucleus convex on both sides, not angled.— Though described 
as with spreading branches in a wild state, all the specimens cultivated at Kew are 
fastigiate. 
C. SEMPERVIRENS, Linn, Sp. Pl. 1002; crown (in India-grown speci- 
mens) narrowly cylindrical, branches and their tips erect, leaves ovate- 
oblong, cones scattered peduncled 1 in. diam. globose or oblong. scales 
tubercled, seeds angled and narrowly winged. Gaertn. Fruct. E t. 91; 
Richard Conif. V. 9 ; Brand. For. Fl. 583; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 411; 
10188. FL Orient. v. 705. C. Roylei, Carr. mss. C. sempervirens, var. 1n- 
dica, Parlat. in DC, Prodr. xvi. ii. 468. C. pyramidalis, Targ. Obs. Dec. 
mw. v. 53. C. fastigiata, DC. Fl. Franc. v. 936. C. horizontalis, Mill, & 
fastigiata, DC., Endl. Conif. 56, 57. C. Whitleyana, Carr. Conif. 128; 
Gord. Pinet. 72, Suppl. 27. C. Doniana, Hort. sd 
. Norra-We . _ . The horizontally branchec var. 
is wild in N, Pene gi panta den Minor; the fastigiate is only known in 
cultivation, , 
A tall tree, attaini . girth of trunk ; branches with the leaves 
"angled, Leaves ovate oblong — ftg a glandon either side. Anthers about 4. 
