144 DACRYDIUM ELATUM. 
I regret that Iam at present able to give no history of 
this valuable tree, beyond the meagre accounts which might 
be gathered from botanical works; but I trust to make up 
for this deficieney at some future time. — It is generally con- 
sidered that this Juniper of Bermudas originally afforded the _ 
fragrant * Cedar-wood" of which pencils are made; but that 
this material becoming scarce and dear, recourse was had to - 
the J. Virginiana of the United States, which, wow, is the 
wood generally, if not solely, in use for that purpose. There — 
exists indeed a great affinity between the two plants, and the — 
foliage on some of the smaller branches of the one can. 
scarcely be distinguished from those on the other. Then, — 
again, the J. Virginiana, I have, so far as its botanical cha- 
racters are concerned, referred (in my Flora Bor. Americ.), t0 — 
the European J. Sabina, in which I am followed by M. 
Spach. Indeed no genus stands in greater need of à  — 
thorough revision than that of the Junipers. Eae 
Tab. I. fig. 1. Portion of a young plant; f. 2, its leaves — 
magnified; f. 3, portion of a fruit-bearing plant; f. 4, Its — — 
leaves, magnified. E 
Dacrypium ELATUM. Wall. 
Foliis undique insertis aliis angustissimis lineari-elongatis 
tetragonis acutis erecto-patentibus, aliis arcte imbricatis 
brevibus ovatis obtusis rarius acuminatis, fructu ovato —— 
obtuse tetragono apice umbilicato, receptaculo cupuliformh —- 
(Tas. II). 
. Dacrydium elatum. Wall. Cat. n. 6045. 
Juniperus elata. Roxb. FI. Ind. v. 8, p. 838. 
Juniperus Phillipsiana. Wall. in Herb. 1824. 
Han. Pulo-Penang. Wallich, Roxburgh, Jack. ee 
Here, as in the Juniperus Bermudiana just described, the — 
leaves are extremely variable, even in the fruit-bearing | 
plant. My original specimen from Dr. Wallich (Cat. n. 6045). 
is about 14 inches long, much branched, its branches long» 
flexuose, subcorymbose; the main branch nearly thick 
at the base as a swan’s quill, terete, clothed with remote, 
