838 DiOECiA MONADELPHi.\. Juniperus. 



on the banks of tlie Ganges, where it grows to be a large 

 tree ; but the wood is soft, and of little or no value. Flow- 

 erino- time the hot season. 



DIOECIA MONADELPHIA. 



JUNIPERUS. Schreh. gen. N. 1552. 



Male. Calyx of the anient, a scale. Stamens three. Fe- 

 male. Calyx three-parted. Petals three. Styles three. 

 Berry three-seeded, irregular, with the three tubercles ot the 

 calyx. Embryo inverse, and furnished with a perisperni. 



1. J. elata. R. 



Arboreous. Leaves crowded, without order, erecto-pa- 

 tent, sub-cylindric, mucronate. 



A large timber tree, a native of the Island of Pulo Pinang, 

 and 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. r^ 



Chin. Then-tsong. 



Common on the- little uncultivated slips of land which 

 separate rice lands in (he vicinity of Canton in China ; 

 and from thence introduced into the Botanic garden by Mr. 

 W. Kerr. 



3. J. chitiensis, Willd. iv. 851. 



Shrubby, very ramous and spreading much. Leaves tern, 

 crowded, sub-imbricated, mucronate. 



From China this elegant, low, spreading, glaucous shrub, 

 has been introduced into the Botanic garden at Calcutta. 



