GENUS SCIADOPITYS. Ill 



^axeg^othea conspicua, Lindley. Prince Albert's 

 Yew. Southern Chili. 1849. — This is a somewhat tender 

 shrub, of low-spreading and irregular growth, and only suited 

 for planting among light rich soil and in fully sheltered situa- 

 tions. It resembles the common yew except in the colour of 

 foliage, which is much lighter, being in well-grown plants a 

 greyish-green or silvery hue. The leaves are thickly produced 

 and pointing forwards, each i inch long, and marked with two 

 silvery lines beneath. One of the healthiest specimens I have 

 seen was growing in light moory soil, and in a situation 

 sheltered from cold winds. 



SOIADOPITYS (Siebold and Zuccarini). 

 THE UMBRELLA PINE. 



Flowers monoecious ; male spikes terminal ; anther lobes 

 two. 



Cones solitary, elliptic or cylindrical, and obtuse at the ends- 



Scales and bracts united into a lobulated mass, leathery, 

 thin, and imbricated. 



Seeds arranged in sevens under each scale, two-winged, and 

 with a leathery covering. 



Leaves twenty to thirty in a whorl, of peculiar structure. 



This genus is at once remarkable in the verticillate rays of 

 foliage, these being arranged in umbrella-shaped whorls. 



Sciadopitys verticil lata, Siebold and Zuccarini. 

 The Umbrella Pine of Japan. Japan. 1861. — An interesting 

 and highly ornamental tree that has done well, when planted in 

 suitable soil, in almost every part of the country. Its special 

 requirements are leaf soil or peat and an abundance of quickly 

 passing away moisture. In this country the rate of growth is 

 slow, but this is to a great extent counterbalanced by the 

 strong though short shoots annually formed, and which 

 become well ripened off before winter sets in. The form of 

 growth is conical, the branches stiff and twiggy, with tufts of 

 deep green foliage near the tips. Leaves arranged in double 

 whorls, each leaf being 3^ inches long, leathery in texture, 



