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THUYOPSIS. 



Thuyopsis dolabrata, Sieb. 



Is closely alKed to the thuyas. In Japan a shrub, or a 

 tree of up to 40 feet in height. In most parts of the 

 British Isles it forms a pyramidal shrub. Its fiat branch- 

 lets and appressed leaves are very distinct. It was intro- 

 duced by J. G. Veitch in 1861. 



T. dolabrata, var. nana, Sieb. and Zucc. 

 Syn. : T. Icetevirens, Lindl. 

 Hime-asunaro (Jap.). 



A compact, spreading, flat-topped dwarf bush rarely 

 reaching 2 feet in height. Branches, branchlets, and 

 leaves about half the size of the type. 



BrancJihts. — Annual growth about 1 inch to 1 J inches. 



Leaves. — Very appressed, flat and fine, about xV inch, 

 retaining their colour in winter better than the type. 



A very distinct, slow-growing dwarf form introduced 

 from Japan by J. G. Veitch in 1861 (Beiss., ii. 489). 



A very fine specimen — forty years old — in the R.H.S. 

 Gardens at Wisley is now under 2 feet in height and about 

 8 feet in diameter. At Kihnacurragh, Co. Wicklow, is 

 another 3 feet 6 inches by 8 feet ; age unknown. 



T. dolabrata, var. cristata, Beiss. (ii. 489); and " Mitt. d. d. 

 d. Ges.," 1902, 72). 



A compact, conical plant with stout, broadly fan- 

 shaped ascending branches, very crowded, twisted, and 

 cockscomb-like. 



Beissner states that this form was raised from seed at 

 Ansorge's Nursery at Flottbek, near Hamburg. 



TORREYA. 



Torreya nucifera, Sieb., var. prostrata. 



The torreyas are allied to the yews and to Cephalotaxus. 

 T. nucifera in Japan is a tree from 20 to 80 feet high : in 

 European cultivation it rarely exceeds the dimensions 



