Juniperus, DIOECIA MONADELPHIA. 839 
4, J. communis. Willd. iv. 853. 
Shrubby. Leaves tern, patent, very sharp nabateshi 
Chin, Tien-tsong. sd 
A very beautiful, densely ramous shrub, with a short dis. 
tinct trunk, covered with dark brown bark which now and 
then peels off in little flakes; some few of the little twigs 
bear opposite, imbricated, small, obtuse leaves as in barbaden- 
sis, but I have not yet observed any tendency to the a e3 
nate piste in this pretty glaucous species. 
5. J. cernua, R. 
Shrubby, branches rather thin, with their extremities: 
drooping elegantly. Leaves tern, spreading, mucronate, 
Chin. Ying-loe. 
A most elegant, thinly branched, small shrub, with a very 
distinct trunk, covered with smooth, dark brown bark ; the 
exterior coat whereof peels off from time to time ; lapaahits 
drooping like the Weeping Willow; these leaves are rather 
larger, more remote and of a al _ than in the other 
species from China. p ehgas 
6, J. dimorpha, R. si ai gd baeub 
Shrubby. Leaves tern, spreading mucronate, some few 
are also opposite and imbricated in rows, they are minute 
and obtuse, - is i 16 gor 
Chin, Kong-nam-tsong. Ho 
A beautiful, very ramous shrub, with a diotinet il short - 
trunk, covered with dark brown bark; some few of the little 
branchlets having a tendency to the flat, or complanate form, 
and those have short, oval, obtuse, opposite, appressed leaves, | 
as in J, barbadensis. Maze. Calyx none. Corol none. 
Stamina many. Anthers peltate, eight-cleft,in our China 
species two-lobed. Frmare. Corol none. Style. none. 
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