Natural Family of Plants called Conifere. 167 
angulo interiore curvato margine latiore, exteriore rectiusculo parüm 
angulato, basi hilo oblongo, apice foramine oblique terminali, tubuloso, 
ore orbiculato aperto instructa: infegumento simplici. Strobili subro- 
tundi, squarrosi, muricati, Pericarpium è foliorum verticillo? inferne 
conferruminato, simulque bracteà concreto, superne soluto in dentibus 6, 
rariüs 3—5, subulatis, compressis, sulcatis, rigidis, apice mucronatis, 
recurvis compositum. Bracteæ pericarpii longitudine, eodemque inferne 
accretæ, ovato-lanceolatee, acuminate, subcarinatæ, apice libero recur- 
vato. Semina 4 v. 5, inæquilateri-oblonga, compressa, collateralia, fusco- 
badia, margine anguste alata, hinc curvata, inde rectiuscula et parüm 
angulata: ¢estd crustaceà: albumen carnosum, parcius. Embryo teres: 
cotyledones 2: radicula conica, brevissima, supera. 
Arbor (japonica) procera, sempervirens. Truncus rectissimus, crassitie pedalis. 
Lignum album, densè compactum : contexts fibrosi vasa tenuissima, punctis 
minutis orbiculatis simplici ordine crebré notata. Ramuli patuli. Folia 
feré omnino Araucariæ Cunninghamii, 5-fariàm ordinata, subulata, rigida, 
viridia, verticalitér compressa, A-sulcata, incurva, vix pollicaria, apice cal- 
loso obtusiuscula, basi in angulum carinatum decurrentia ; adultiora per- 
sistentia ; novella presertim ad ramulorum basin abbreviata, subimbricata. 
Amenta mascula aggregata ; fœminea solitaria. Antherarum thecæ flava. 
Strobili subrotundi, viv juglandis magnitudine. 
Tas. XIII. Fig. 1. 
1. C. japonica. 
Cupressus japonica. Linn. Fil. Suppl. 421. Thunb. Jap. 265. Willd. Sp. 
Pl. vol. iv. 513. Gertn. Fruct. vol. ii. t.91. Lam. Dict. vol. ii. 244. Ill. 
707. J- 9. 
San, vulgo Ssugi. Kampf. Amen. 883. 
Habitat in Insulà Nipponiæ, et in montibus circa Nagasaki urbem sponte 
vulgaris. Kampfer, Thunberg. h. (v. s. spont. à Thunbergio ipso com- 
municatum in Herb. Linn. Fil. nunc in Mus. Soc. Linn.). 
"The present genus is one of great interest in a botanical point of view from 
the peculiarities of structure of its reproductive organs, as well as from its 
remarkable habit, which is so like that of Araucaria or Eutassa Cunninghamii, 
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