646 CXLIV. CONIFERZ. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Cupressus. 
Scales of cone 3-14, usually with a short horn or boss. Seeds ovoid or oblong, nu- 
cleus angle d. — Parlatore separates the Indian form as a variety with globose cones, 
and umbonate scales mucronate at the tip. 
C. FUNEBRIS, Endl. Conif. 58; crown very broadly pyramidal, 
branches horizontal branchlets pendulous distichous compressed, leaves 
ovate acute, cones small 1-l in. diam., scales rugulose, seeds angled and 
broadly winged. Parlat. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 471; Brand. For. Fl. 534; 
Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 410; Flore des Serres vi. 90 with fig. C. pendula, 
Staunton, Embass. to China ii. 525, t. 41; Griff. Itin. Notes 131, 143, 
No. 679 a; Lamb. Pin. Ed. 2, 124, t. 66. 
Planted near Buddhist temples in NEPAL, SIKKIM and BnoraN, alt. 4-8000 ft.— 
DisrRIB. Wild in China. . 
A very handsome tree, attaining 60 ft., remarkable for its wide-spreading branches, 
and pendulous distichous branchlets.—C. pendula is the first name given to this 
species, but it was preoccupied for Thuja pendula, Lamb., the Biota pendula, 
Endl., which genera are now reduced to Cupressus. 
2. JUNIPERUS, Linn. 
Characters of Cupressus, but leaves more often subulate and 3-nately 
whorled, scales of cone fleshy and coherent or connate in fruit, and seeds 
with a thick hard testa and often connate into a hard several-celled mass 
Species about 25; temperate and cold regions of the N. Hemisphere. 
1. J. communis, Linn. Sp. Pl. 1040; shrubby erect or decumbent, 
leaves 4-4 in. all oblong-lanceolate or subulate pungent base narrow t 
flat or concave above convex or keeled beneath, fruit subglobose abog 
3-seeded. Endl. Conif. 15; Parlat. in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 479; Wall. Cat. 
6044; Brand. For. Fl. 535; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 411; Boiss. ©. 
Orient. v. 707; Richard. Conif. 33, t. 5; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. mE 
J. nana, Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 854. 
. WESTERN HIMALAYA, from Kumaon westward, alt. 5500 to 14,000 ft. — DISTRIB. 
Temperate and Subarctic Europe, Asia, N. Africa, and N. America. . der 
A bush in the Himalaya, rarely 6-7 ft., prostrate at high elevations with broa e 
leaves ; foliage grey green, Leaves crowded. Fruit i-i in. diam., blue black, 
glaucous, with scarious empty scales at the base.— The common Juniper. 
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2. J. pseudo-sabina, Fisch. & Mey. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 
Animad. 65; a robust shrub or tree, leaves dimorphous, those on the i 
branches linear pungent, those on the terminal branchlets 4-farious closely 
imbricate appressed, fruit erect ovoid 3-3 in., endocarp very thick bony 
l-seeded, seed slender. Endl. Conif. 21; Parlat. in DC. Prodr. Bib.) 
482; Ledeb. FI. Ross. ii. 689. J. excelsa, Wall. Cat. 6041 (not of Bie?" 
J. Wallichiana, Hook. f. § Thoms. Herb. Kew; Brand. For. ve 
Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 419. J. sabina? Herb. Ind. Or. H. " 
J. indica, Bertolozi Miscell. xxiii. 16, t. 1. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, from Kashmir to Bhotan, and WESTERN Traz, gi 
9-15,060 tt.—DrsTRIB. Siberia, Soongaria. k and 
A bush in the N.W. Himalaya; a tree, 60 ft., in Sikkim, with stout trun* 4, 
black thick ramification and foliage. Largest leaves } in., rather spreading, ; 
smaller 3; in., rhombic ovate, closely imbricate, tips free, back obtusely 
