CHAMJECYPABIS 47 



C. pisifera, Sieb. and Zucc. (1847). 



Syn.: Eetinospor a pisifera, Sieb. and Zucc. (1842). 

 Cupressus pisifera, C. Koch. 

 Sawara (Jap.). 



The Sawara Cypress was introduced from Japan by 

 J. G. Veitch in 1861. The habit of the type is open and 

 rather thin; its leaves are more pointed than those of 

 C. ohtusa, the pointed tips being free ; and it is not a com- 

 mon tree in gardens, but some of its forms, especially the 

 juvenile forms — vars. squarrosa and plumosa — are among 

 some of the best-known garden plants, being found in any 

 size, from window-box plants and tub plants to small 

 pjrramidal trees. These stand pruning very well, and 

 can be kept to shape and in good condition by a judicious 

 use of the knife. 



C. pisifera, var. filifera, Beiss. 



Syn.: Retinospora filifera, Standish and Gordon 

 (" Pinetum," ii. 364). 



Branches open and spreading with secondary ones, 

 alternate; long, distant, and furnished with varying 

 lengthened branchlets, the intermediate branchlets being 

 long, slender, undivided, filiform, 8 to 10 inches, with 

 tufts at points, laterals rather short and somewhat 

 flattened; bright green above, glaucous beneath. Leaves 

 ovate, very acute and spiny pointed ; loosely imbricated ; 

 open and spreading at the points ; backs keeled ; decurrent 

 at base ; bright green above, glaucous beneath. 



Its habit is rarely pyramidal; usually a broad low 

 bush of pendulous branchlets. Common in cultivation. 



Var. filifera aurea has its young growth yellow, and is 

 slower in growth ; it looks best when planted behind a low 

 rock over which its branchlets may droop. Var. fiava, 

 Schelle (Beiss., ii., 573), was apparently raised from a 

 sulphur- coloured sporting branch by Herr Schelle in 

 Tubingen. 



Beissner (ii. 573) records an even slower -growing form 



