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it is very slow-growing and keeps its shape well. I have 

 a specimen 4 feet by 3 feet. 



Beissner records (ii. 523) two sub-varieties of this: var. 

 Ungeri ("Mitt. d. d. d. Ges,," 1904, 87), found by Herr 

 Alfred Unger in Osaka, Japan — a similar form but with 

 the young shoots tipped with white; and var. articulatat 

 a compact globular form with finer and longer branchlets. 



T. orientalis, var. aurea. 



A slow-growing form of the type with golden fohage 

 may be included, but in time may grow too large. 



T. orientalis, var. falcata, Veitch. 



Syn. : Biota orientalis falcata, Carr. (" Conif .," ii. 96; 

 Beiss., ii. 528). 



Found by J. G. Veitch in Yokohama. A small irregular 

 form of upright ascending pyramidal growth, with wide- 

 spreading branches and branchlets, and dark green sickle- 

 shaped branchlet sprays. Leaves scale-like, remote at 

 the apex, very deep green. 



T. orientalis, var. monstrosa, Carr. ("Conif.," i. 95, 1855). 

 Syn. : T. Siberica monstrosa, Knight, ex Gord. 

 C'Pinetum," Sup. 18). 



An irregular bush of short, gross branchlets, few in 

 number, and much contorted, frequently four-sided from 

 the thickened obtuse ovate (rarely acute) leaves. Leaves 

 scale-like, distant, shortly oval. 



A distinct variety, frequently covered with a mass of 

 young shoots hke " witches' -broom." 



T. orientalis, var. cristata, Carr. ("Conif.," ii. 97, 1867). 



A compact small plant of upright growth; its branches 

 are short, erect, and crowded, and are surmounted by 

 crowded cockscomb-Hke growths of branchlets, which are 

 frequently twisted. This variety was foimd by Monsieur 

 A. Seneclauze (Carr.). 



