On one occasion, a hundred and forty children were admitted 
without inconvenience.” 
Dr. Lindley not unnaturally exclaims, “What a tree is this! 
of what portentous aspect, and almost fabulous antiquity! They 
say that the specimen felled at the junction of the Stanislau and 
San Antonio was above 3000 years old; that is to say, it must 
have been a little plant when Sampson was slaying the Philis- 
tines, or Paris running away with Helen, or Alneas carrying off 
good Pater Anchises upon his filial shoulders. And this may 
very well be true if it does not grow above two inches in dia- 
meter in twenty years, which we believe to be the fact. At all 
events we have obtained the plant. The seed received by Messrs. 
Veitch has all the appearance of vitality, and since the tree is 
hardy and evergreen, it is a prodigious acquisition.” Since this 
was written, less than three months ago, the seeds have germi- 
nated ; and the young plants have prospered so well, that they are 
now, we believe, offered for sale by the Messrs. Veitch, at their 
extensive exotic nurseries, Exeter, and King’s-road, Chelsea, and 
we trust we may live to see them as common in Great Britain as 
Deodars have now become. 
Although we as yet know nothing of the male fructification, 
nor of the cones, save in the mature state, yet in these latter, 
together with the specimen with young and adult foliage, which 
Messrs. Veitch laid before Dr. Lindley, there were sufficient ma- 
terials for that botanist to determine that the tree belonged to a 
perfectly new genus, with foliage not very dissimilar to that of 
the Junipers, yet with true cones, or strodzli, as large as those of 
the Scotch Fir, but in structure very much resembling those of 
the Japan genus Sciadopitys of Siebold and Zuccarini, Flora of. 
Japan, ii. p. 1. t. 102,—Wwhich however has leaves the longest 
(four to five inches long, and the broadest more than a line in 
width,) of any genus of Conifere of the northern hemisphere ; 
and so arranged in whorls that each whorl is umbraculate, whence 
the generic name. 
Descr. A gigantic ¢ree, attaining a height of more than three 
hundred feet. (Its general habit and ramification will be best 
understood by a reference to our figure at Tab. 4777.) Greatest 
diameter of the trunk twenty feet, or sixty feet in circumference ; _ - 
bark exceedingly thick. Extremities or terminal dranch/ets some- 
what distichously pinnated, drooping, slender, filiform. Leaves 
small, alternate, coriaceous, palish green, spirally as it were ar- 
ranged, three completing the circuit of the trunk, all of them 
erect and imbricated, so that the branches, in conjunction with 
the leaves, are nearly terete. ‘The leaves of the young plants are 
oblong-subulate, apiculate, or mucronate ; semiamplexicaul at the | 
base, keeled at the back, plane within, but with a slightly ele- 
