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extremities of the branches, and placed sideways. Cones, ovate- 

 elliptic, six-valved, solitary at the ends of the small branchlets, 

 half an inch long, green when young, but light brown when 

 ripe, and composed of six scales, two being central and four 

 around the sides. Scales, blunt, central ones truncate, with a 

 short stout projecting point below the apex, each scale covering 

 two naked, egg-shaped, somewhat angular, wingless seeds. 



A low evergreen tree, or pyramidal bush, densely clothed 

 with deep green branchlets, found abundantly in China and 

 Japan, growing in rocky situations and on the mountains, where 

 it attains a height of 18 or 20 feet. It has the following 

 varieties. 



Biota orientalis glauca, Pince. 

 Syn. Thuja glauca, Hort. 



This beautiful and very distinct variety differs from the 

 species In having all Its leaves and branchlets covered with a 

 fine glaucous powder, giving the plant qviite a silvery appear- 

 ance when in good health. It was raised by Messrs. Pince, of 

 Exeter. 



Biota orientalis Sieboldti, Endlicher. 

 Syn. Biota Japonica, Siebold. 

 „ „ Orientalis nana, Carriere. 

 „ „ „ compacta, Hort. 



„ Thuja compacta, Hort. 

 „ „ nana, Hort. 

 „ „ Orientalis compacta, Hort. 



This kind is distinguished by its dwarf, compact, conical head, 

 and numerous short branchlets of a bright green colour. It 

 is from Japan, where it is much cultivated in pots, on account 

 of its dwarf, compact habit. It is the ' Tsabo-hiba' of the 

 Japanese. 



