Tas. 5608. 
GLYPTOSTROBUS pennttvts. 
Pendulous deciduous Cypress. 
Nat. Ord. Conrrer2.—Monecia Poryanpria. 
Gen. Char. Flores in iisdem ramis monoici. Masc. Amenta parva, ra- 
mulis elongatis spicata v. paniculata, oblonga, sessilia. Anthere 6-8, glo- 
bose, ad basin squame late ovate, sessiles. Fam. Amenta parva, ad basin 
Spice mascule pauca; sguame 8-10, ovate, patentes. Ovula 2, ad basin 
Squamarum, erecta, lageniformia. Strobili ovoideo-subglobosi, lignosi ; 
sqguame@ e basi strobili orte, lineari-obcuneate, imbricate, caduee, dorso 
mucrone conico instructw. Semina 2, ad basin squame, compressa; testa 
membranacea, superne alata.—Arbores Chinenses, ramulis erectis v. pen- 
dulis. Folia alterna, sparsa v. disticha, lineari-subulata, subtrigona v. plana. 
Gemme perulate. . 
Guyprostronus pendulus; ramis patentibus honzontalibus et decurvis, 
ramulis ultimis adscendentibus (demum pendulis) simpliciusculis elon- 
gatis, foliis junioribus subulatis adultis lineari-acicularibus acuminatis. 
Giyprostrosus pendulus. Lndl. Synops. Conif. p.71. Carriére, Traité 
Gen. Conif. p. 152. 
Taxoprum Sinense. Hort. Noisette; Gord, Pinetum, 308. 
Taxoprum Sinense pendulum. Forbes, Pinet. Woburnense, p. 180. Loudon, 
Eeyel. p. 1078. 
Cupressus disticha, 8. nutans. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. p. 323. 
One plant of the beautiful tree here figured was long cul- 
tivated at Kew, side by side with a specimen (since dead) of 
Taxodium distichum, of which it was considered a variety by 
the elder Aiton. Of its native country or introducer, how- 
ever, nothing is known, and I am indebted to Professor Oliver 
(who this year observed male and female flowers on it) for 
clearing up its botanical history, and referring it, no doubt 
correctly, to the rare and little known Glyptostrobus pendulus 
of China. Its similarity to the Taxodium distichum is very 
striking: like that plant it has pendulous spikes of male 
cones, with one or few female cones at the base of the spike, 
and sheds its ultimate branches annually, but it differs in the 
OCTOBER lst, 1866. 
