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3. Cephalotaxus tedunculata, SieboM, the Long-stalked 

 Cephalotaxus. 

 Syn. Taxus Harringtonia, Loudon. 

 „ „ Inukaja, Knight. 



Leaves, in two rows, mostly opposite and flat on the branch- 

 lets, but somewhat spiral and alternate on the leading shoots 

 and principal branches, linear, a little curved, very closely set 

 on the shoots, thick, leathery, revolute, and without or on very 

 short footstalks, from 1^ to 2^ inches long, and IJ to 2 lines 

 broad ; of a bright, glossy green above, and furnished with an 

 elevated straight nerve, and two broad glaucous white bands on 

 the under one, terminating in an acute or obtuse spiny point. 

 Branches, numerous, spreading, and mostly in whorls ; branch- 

 lets in two rows, horizontal, and mostly opposite. Buds fur- 

 nished with persistent imbricated scales. Male flowers collected 

 in globular heads, on peduncules furnished with bracts, each 

 catkin being oval and much shorter than the bracteas, female 

 ones axillary and disposed in heads on long, somewhat four- 

 cornered fruitstalks. Fruit, two or three in a close head, dru- 

 paceous, or each enclosed in a fleshy covering, like the fruit of 

 the common plum. Seeds, solitary in each fruit, erect, and with 

 a smooth bony shell, which is hard and thin. Seed-leaves in 

 twos, short and rounded. 



A handsome small evergreen tree, growing from 20 to 25 feet 

 high, with numerous spreading branches, mostly in whorls 

 round the stem ; found abundantly in Japan, cultivated in 

 gardens under the name of ' Inukaja.' 



It is quite hardy. 



4. Cephalotaxus umbraculifera, Siehold, the Shade- 

 afibrding Cephalotaxus. 



Leaves, in two rows, quite flat, closely placed along the shoots, 

 very rigid, linear-lanceolate, rather short, and somewhat falcate ; 

 from three-quarters to an inch long, and 1^ line broad near the 

 base, of a dark glossy green above, but much paler below, with 

 two narrow greyish lines, almost sessile, or on very short 



