34 HARDY CONIFEROUS TREES. 



months. It is of small growth, thickly branched and foliaged, 

 the branchlets being shortly pendulous. 



C. japonica Lobbi. — Compared with the species, 

 this forms a tree of narrower and more compact outline, the 

 leaves also being of a brighter and more vivid green colour. 

 It is equally vigorous with the species, and in this country 

 has attained to stately dimensions, with a straight, well- 

 formed trunk, that is furnished throughout with bushy, thickly 

 foliaged branches, the spread of which is usually less than 

 one-third of the height. 



C| (laponica Sandersii, which originated in Cork, is 

 of dense habit, with very distinct foliage. 



C. japonica spiralis. — Though quite distinct and 

 noteworthy, this cannot be described as an ornamental variety. 

 The branches are lithe and weak, irregular as to length and 

 arrangement, and having short, closely-appressed leaves of a 

 dull green colour, and so thickly and shortly set as to appear 

 in a spiral manner throughout the entire length. 



CUNNINGHAMIA (Brown). 



Flowers monoecious. 



Cones globular or ovoid ; sometimes with the axis elongated 

 into a leafy shoot. 



Scales without bracts, acute-pointed. 



Seeds, three under each scale, winged, penduloUs. 



Leaves lanceolate, flat. 



Cotyledons, two. 



A medium sized evergreen tree from China, nearly allied to 

 Araucaria. 



Cunningfhamia sinensis,^ Brown, {Synonyms: — 

 Belis jaculifolia, Salisbury ; Pinus laftceolata, Lambert.) 

 Southern China. 1804. — This tree is of too tender constitution 

 for the climate of Britain generally, still in certain favoured 

 localities, particularly within the influence of the sea, it does 



1 For a full account of Cunninghamia sinensisy see my article in The Garden, 

 vol. xxix., page 173, 1886. 



