Thuia 
pendula 
154. ARBORETUM NOTES. 
CONIFER. 
CUPRESSINE®. 
indeed decussately opposite, and very distinctly 
four-rowed, but those of all the four rows are 
exactly alike, and spread equally. The imam 
portions of the leaves, too, are much longer, and 
more pointed than in the other Thue, and this is 
the case even on the youngest shoots. The colour 
is a full and rather deep, uniform bright green. 
The cones are solitary, sessile at the end of the 
shoots of a year or two old, amidst the confused 
cluster of new shoots; they agree essentially in 
structure with those of Thwa (biota) orientalis, and 
are of the same colour in the corresponding stages 
of growth; but have a very peculiar appearance 
owing to the very long, large and strongly-hooked » 
points (like horns) into which their scales are 
prolonged. 
This plant belongs to the genus biota of Don 
and Endlicher (which I do not consider distinct 
from Thua); but it differs as much in foliage and 
ramification, from the type of that section (the 
Thuia or biota orientalis) as it does from the true 
American Thuias. Lambert’s figure agrees so 
imperfectly with this, especially in the fruit (which 
wants the strong horn-like hooks) that I have 
quoted it with a mark of doubt. Endlicher’s 
description agrees imperfectly as to the leaves, 
but well in other respects ; Gordon’s, fairly well. 
According to Gordon’s Pinetum, this was found 
