THE CHINESE ARBOR-VIT/E. 35 



Biota Orientalis gracilis, Carriere. 

 Syn. Biota Ncpalensis, Endlicher. 



„ „ freneloidcs, Belgian Gardens. 



„ ,, gracilifolia. Knight. 



„ Thuja freneloicles, Hort. 



„ „ Nepalensis, Hort. 



This variety differs in being much more slender, compact, and 

 erect in all its parts, and in having much smaller and more 

 acute foliage than the species. It is found on the mountains of 

 Nepal and other parts of Northern India, and is called by the 

 natives ' Majoo,' which, according to Major Madden, is derived 

 from the external resemblance of its fruit to the nutsall. 



No. 2. Biota pendula, Endlicher, the Weeping Arbor-Vitae. 

 Syn. Biota intermedia, French Gardens. 

 „ Thuja pendula, Lambert. 

 „ „ pendulata, Hort. 

 „ „ filiformis, Loddiges. 

 >, „ Orientalis flagclliformis, Jacques. 

 „ Cupressus filiformis, Hort. 

 „ „ pendula, Thunberg, not Staunton. 

 „ „ patula, Persoon. 

 „ „ pendulata, Hort. 



Leaves, in opposite pairs, very small, somewhat distant, scale- 

 formed or ovate-lanceolate, spreading at the points, and loosely 

 imbricated, decurrent and keeled on the back, much smaller, 

 shorter, less pointed, and more closely imbricated at the base 

 and towards the ends of the branchlets than along the inter- 

 mediate parts, where they are more distant, pointed, longer, and 

 spreading out at the points. Branches, spreading, slender, very 

 long, and recurved ; branchlets, long, numerous, collected in 

 clusters at irregular distances along the branches, slender, 

 thread-like, sometimes forked, loosely drooping, and distantly 

 covered with small scale-like sharp-pointed leaves. Cones, 

 globose or ovate-oblong; half an inch long, erect, and produced 

 in clusters of from three to five in number, near the ends of the 



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