Juniperus. dioecia monadelphia. 839 



4. J. communis. WilUi.iv.Sb3. 



Shrubby. Leaves tern, patent, very sharp pointed. 



C/tin. Tien-tsong. 



A very beautiful, densely ramous shrub, with a short dis- 

 tinct trunk, covered with dark brown bark which now and 

 then peels oft' in little flakes; some few of the little twigs 

 bear opposite, imbricated, small, obtuse leaves as in harhaden- 

 sis, but I have not yet observed any tendency to the compla- 

 nate form, in this pretty glaucous species. 



5. J. cernua. R. 



Shrubby, branches rather thin, with their extremities 

 drooping elegantly. Leaves tern, spreading, mucronate. 



Chin. Yino-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; branchlets 

 drooping like the Weeping Willow ; these leaves are rather 

 larger, more remote and of a purer green than in the other 

 species from China. 



6. J. dimorpha. R. 



Shrubby. Leaves tern, spreading mucronate, some few 

 are also opposite and imbricated in rows, they are minute 

 and obtuse. 



Chin, Kong-nam-tsonof. 



A beautiful, very ramous shrub, with a distinct, 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. Male. Calyx none. Corol none. 

 Stamina many. Anthers peltate, eight-cleft, in our China 

 species two-lobed. Female. Corol none. Style none. 

 Seed one in a berried calycle which is quite entire. 



