46 CEPHALOTAXUS, OR 



2. Cephalotaxus fortunii, Hooker, Fortune's Cephalotaxus. 

 Syn. Cephalotaxus filiformis. Knight. 

 „ „ Fortunii pendula, Carriere. 



„ „ „ mas, Hort. 



Leaves, on the lateral branches and branchlets strictly ar- 

 ranged in two rows, linear-lanceolate, and regularly tapering to 

 an acute point, quite straight, smooth, flat, mostly opposite, but 

 sometimes slightly alternate, somewhat distant apart, and nearly 

 sessile, or on very short, more or less twisted footstalks ; those 

 on the principal branches and on the young plants are mostly 

 scattered alternately and much the longest, of a deep glossy 

 green, with a narrow, acute rib along the middle on the upper 

 surface, and of a glaucous white below, except on the mid rib 

 and margins, which are of a bright, glossy, green colour. 

 Branches, in horizontal whorls round the stem, long, slender, 

 spreading, and rather pendant towards the ends ; lateral ones 

 and branchlets arranged laterally in two rows, frequently in 

 opposite pairs, but sometimes irregularly and distantly scattered, 

 very slender, long, and more or less filiform. Buds, very small 

 and covered with persistent, long, acute, glossy, imbricated 

 scales, extended at the points, and which remain at the base of 

 each successive growth for some years afterwards in a withered 

 state. Male flowers in globular heads, axillary, on short foot- 

 stalks. Fruit, drupaceous, regularly elliptic, tapering to both 

 ends, and frequently furnished with a small point on the apex ; 

 from 1 to 1;^ inch long, and nearly three-quarters of an inch 

 broad. Seeds, solitary, in each fruit covered with a hard, bony 

 shell, rather thin, and brittle, and enveloped in a thin, fleshy 

 substance, and purplish skin when ripe. A fine evergreen tree, 

 growing from 40 to 60 feet high, with long, slender, drooping 

 branches, found by Fortune in the north of China, i^articularly 

 in the province of Yang-Sin. It is also found in Japan. 



It is hardy. 



