56 CUPRESSUS. 
lignescentibus suborbicularibus angulatis, excentrice pel- 
tatis, vertice centro mucronatis, primum arcte conni- 
ventibus, demum hiscentibus. Semina plurima, in stipitis 
squamarum facie interiore superne inserta, erecta, ovoi- 
dea, integumento osseo, utrinque in alam membranaceam 
angustam v. latam expanso. JAmbryo in axi albuminis 
carnosi antitropus, ejusdem longitudine, cotyledonibus 
2 — 3, radicula cylindrica, supera. 
Arbores in regione mediterranea , India boreali et in Ame- 
rica centrali indigeng,  sempervirentes, — lente — crescentes , 
ramis pyramidato -fastigiatis v. horizontaliter patentibus. 
Folia quintum in annum persistentia, decussata, arctissime 
imbricata et ramos omnino tegentia , squamaformia , coria- 
cea, rhombea, sepe dorso glandula vesiculari notata. Gem- 
mae nudae. 
1. CuPnESsus nonizoNTALIS Mill. 
Cupressus coma effusa ramis patentibus, ramulis cylin- 
dricis, folis arcte adpressis acutiusculis dorso convexis 
ecarinatis, strobili globosi squamis umbonatis. 
Cupressus mas Cesalpin de Plant. III. 55. 
Cupressus ramos extra se spargens, qu:e mas Plinii Tournef. 
Inst. 581. 
Cupressus sempervirens (?, Linn. Spec. 1422. 
Cupressus horizontalis Miller Dict. n. 2. 
Cupressus expansa Hort. 
Cupressus orientalis Jfort. 
Cupressus "'ournefortii Audibert Cat. 1834. 
B. PENDULA, ramis horizontalibus, ramulis pendulis. — 
Cupressus horizontalis pendula Hort. 
Habitat in. Creta, Bithynia et Persia. 
