52 CRYPTOMERIA ; OR 



Gen. CRYPTOMERIA. Bon. 



Flowers, monoecious, or male and female on the same plant, 

 but separate ; the male catkins numerous, somewhat oblong, and 

 collected in clusters at the extremities of the branchlets ; the 

 female ones mostly solitary, or two or three together, without 

 footstalks, spherical, and terminal. 



Cones, globular, woody, and either singly or in clusters. 



Scales, wedge-shaped, numerous, loose, and with rough- 

 fringed edges. 



Seeds, from three to five under each scale, obovate or angularly 

 depressed and covered with a crustaceous tegument, prolonged 

 on each side into a regular membrane, cut sloping at both ex- 

 tremities. 



Seed-leavesj from two to four in number, but mostly in 

 threes. 



Leaves, alternate, in five rows, sickle-shaped, irregularly 

 four-sided, without any footstalks, but running downwards at 

 the base, acute- pointed, spreading, and persistent. 



Name derived from ' Kruptos,' hidden, and ' Merls,' a part. 



A large evergreen tree, found in the north of China and 

 Japan. 



Cryptomeria Japonica, Don, the Japan Cedar. 

 Syn. Cupressus Japonica, Thunherg. 

 „ Taxodium Japonicum, Brongniart. 

 ,, Cupressus Cheusanensis, Plukn. 



The Chinese name for this tree is ' San' or * Sin ;' and the 

 Japanese call it ' Sugi,' which in their language signifies an 

 evergreen tree, with stiff bristle-shaped leaves. 



Leaves, five-rowed, without any footstalks, short pointed, very 



