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moimtain side, May 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 428); same locality, A. 



Henry {No. 5^53). Western Szech'uan: west and near W^n- 

 ch'uan Hsien, alt. 1300-2300 m., May and July 1908 (No. 696^; thin 

 tree 6-10 m. tall); Tachien-lu, J. A. Soulie (No. 564). Shensi: 

 Tai-pei-shan, 1910, W. Purdom, Fokien: without locality, Dunn's 

 Exped., April -June 1905 (Herb. Bot. Gard. Hongkong, Nos. 3808, 

 3809). Formosa: Mt. Morrison, alt. 4300 m., T. Kawa Rami and 



U, Mori, No. 2262 (fragment seen). 



As Hayata points out, the J. taxifolia of Hooker & Arnott is an insular 

 species so far reported only from the Liu-kiu and Bonin archipelagos, and readily 

 distinguished by its obtuse leaves and longer male flowers. Our specimens agree 

 perfectly with Hayata's description of his J. formosana and we, therefore, take" 

 up this name for the Juniper so long cultivated in gardens as J. taxifolia. 



In western Hupeh and eastern Szech'uan J. formosana is not uncommon in the 

 margins of moist woods and thickets between 500 and 1600 m. altitude. In western 

 Szech'uan it ascends to 2300 m. altitude but is rare. This Juniper forms a slender 

 tree from 8 to 15 m. tall, and the trunk usually divides a few feet above the ground 

 into three or more erect stems. The principal branches are erect and spreading 

 or ascending and spreading and the branchlets are pendulous. The bark is grey- 

 brown, fibrous, longitudinally fissured and peels off in thin, narrow strips. The 

 leaves are all very pungent and vary considerably in length, some before us being 

 3 cm. long. The 3-seeded fruit is sub-globose or broadly ovoid, orange or red- 

 brown and from 6 to 8 mm. long and broad, 



Juniperus rigida Siebold & Zuccarini, which some authors have confused with 

 the species under notice, has blue-black fruit and rather differently shaped, nar- 

 rower leaves and does not occur in China except in the extreme north-east part, 

 although in Japan, Korea and Manchuria it is common. 



Kent (Veitch's Man. Conif. 191 [1900]) states that /. taxifolia (J. formosana 

 Hayata) is cultivated in many gardens under the name of J. oblonga yendula Hort., 

 but the Juniper grown in North America under this name is a variety of J". 

 communis Linnaeus with pendulous branches. There is, however, in the Arnold 

 Arboretum a plant received from M. L. de Vilmorin as Juniperus spec, from 

 China, which is doubtless /. formosana; it has proved hardy so far and is 

 growing well. 



A colloquial name of /. formosana in Hupeh is " Tz'u-peh-shu." A picture of 

 this tree will be found under No. 542 of the collection of Wilson's photographs and 

 in his Vegetation of Western China, No. 266. 



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Sect. Sabina Spach. . 



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Juniperus squamata Lambert, Descr, Gen. Pinus, II. 17 (1824). 

 I>. Don, Prodr. Nepal 55 (1825). —Spach in Ann. Sd. Nat. s6r. 2, 

 XVL 293 (1841). — Endlicher, Syn. Conif. 18 (1847). — Brandis, Far. 

 PI Brit. 7nd, 537(1874). 



Juniperus religiosa Royle, III. I. 351 (nomen nudum) (1839). 

 Juniperus Lamhertiana Wallich mss. ex Endlicher, Syn, Conif, 19 (1847), 

 quasi synon. /. squamatae. 



