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2. GLYPTOSTROBUS PENDULUS Endl. 
Glyptostrobus ramulis gracilibus pendulis. 
Taxodium sinense pendulum Pinet. Woburn. 180. 
Habitat in China. 
Ramuli flagelliformes, penduli. Folia quam in praecedente 
dimidio fere minora, acuminata, approximata. 
XIV. CRYPTOMERIA Don. 
Cryptomeria Don in Linn. Transact. XVIII. 2. 166. Brongniart 
in Annal. sc. nat. 2. Ser. XII. 231. Siebold et Zuccarini 
Flor. Japon. II. 41. 
Flores monoici. | Ámenta staminigera lateralia ex axillis 
foliorum, sessilia, nuda, cylindrica, in racemos breves 
congesta. Stamina plurima, axi spiraliter inserta, mul- 
tifariam imbricata; filamenta brevissima, in connectivi 
processum squamaeformem, excentrice peltatum, mar- 
gine inferiore subtus anthere loculos quinque longitudi- 
naliter bivalves gerentem producta.  Amenta gemmulifera 
terminalia, capitata, sessilia, nuda globosa ....  Strobili 
globosi. JBractee axi abbreviato spiraliter inserte, lan- 
ceolate, acute, basi squama adnate, superne liberz, 
reflexe. Squamae in bractearum axillis solitari: , iisdem 
inferne adnate et longiores, e basi cuneata substipitatz, 
apice palmato-quadri-quinquefide, laciniis rigidis, diver. 
gentibus, lignescentibus. Semina sub quavis squama 4—5 
sessilia, erecta, atropa, obovato-oblonga, compresso-an- 
gulata, integumento crustaceo, utrinque in alam membra- 
naceam angustam, basi et apice emarginatam producta. 
