838 DIOECTA MONADELPHIA, Juniperus, 
on the banks of the Ganges, where it grows to be a large 
tree ; but the wood is soft, and of little or no value. Flow- 
ering time the hot season. 
DIOECIA MONADELPHIA. 
_ JUNIPERUS. Schreb. gen. N. 1552. 
~ Mate. Calyx of the ament, a scale, Stamens three. Fe- 
MALE, Calyx three-parted. Petals three. Styles three. 
Berry three-seeded, irregular, with the three tubercles of the 
calyx. Embryo inverse, and furnished with a perisperm. 
1. J. elata, R. 
‘Arboreous, Leaves crowded, without order, ee, 
tent, sub-cylindric, mucronate. 
_ A large timber tree, a native of the Island of Pulo Pinang, 
due of a very slow growth; at least in the Botanic garden, 
where the oldest plants are not less than fifteen years old, 
‘and not more than seven feet high, 
2. J. aquatica, R. 
Shrubby. Leaves single, distichous, linear, not mucro- 
nate, i 
~ Chin, Then-tsong. 
~ Common on the little uncultivated slips of land. which 
separate rice lands in the vicinity of Canton in China; 
and from thence introduced into the Botanic garden _ _ 
W. Kerr. 
3. J. philionsilh Willd. iv, 851. dead 
-Shrubby, very ramous and spreading much, Leaves tern, 
crowded, sub-imbricated, mucronate, . 
From China this elegant, low, spreading, shuns shrub, 
has been introduced into the Botanic garden at Calcutta. » 
