44 CEPHALOTAXUS; OR 



Mounts Amanus and Taurus of antiquity. There are the 

 following varieties: — 



Cedrus Libani argentea, Loudon, 

 Syn. Cedrus Libani glauca. Hart. 



This beautiful variety has the leaves of a silvery hue on both 

 sides, and contrasts well in old trees with the more common 

 form with green foliage. 



Cedrus Libani nana, Loudon. 



A very dwarf variety, growing only from 2 to 3 feet high, with 

 very short shoots and smaller leaves. 



Cedrus Libana pendula, Knight. 



This variety has slenderer and more pendulous branches than 

 the Common Cedar of Lebanon. 



Gen. CEPHALOTAXUS. Siebold. The Cluster-flowered 



Yews. 



Flowers, dioecious, or male and female on different plants, 

 pedunculate and in globular heads. 



Fruity drupaceous, or like the common plum, fleshy outside, 

 and two or three in a head. 



Seeds, solitary, nutlike, with a bony or woody shell, and 

 enclosed in the fleshy disk. 



Leaves, one-nerved, linear, alternate, and in two rows. 



Seed-leaves, in twos. 



Name derived from /ce^aA-7;(kephale),a headjandra^t? (taxis), 

 arrangement, flowers and fruit growing in close globular heads. 



All evergreen trees, found in China and Japan. 



