THE TRUE CYPRESSES. Gi) 



CUPRESSUS SEMPERVIRENS VARIEGATA, Knujht. 



Syn. C. fastigiata variegata, Hort. 



This only differs in having some of its shoots and leaves of a 

 pale yellow or white colour intermixed. 



CUPBESSUS SEMPERVIRENS MONSTROSA, Hort. 



Syn. C. thujaefolia. Knight. 

 „ C. fastigiata thujsefolia, Hort. 



A deformed and more robust variety, with shorter and more 

 flattened branchlets, resembling a Thuja, and of French origin. 



No. 14. CuPRESSUS TORULOSA, Don, the Twisted or Bhotan 



Cypress. 

 Syn. Cupressus Cashmeriana, Hort. 

 „ Nepalensis, Loudon. 

 „ pendula, Griffith. 



Leaves, very small, ovate, scale-formed, smooth, regularly 

 and closely imbricated in four rows, or slightly spreading, 

 acute, more distant, much longer, and very glaucous, with a 

 yellow tint on the young plants, but of a more greenish hue, 

 with a tinge of grey on the adult ones. Branches, spreading, 

 alternate, or irregularly placed along the stem ; lateral ones 

 short, numerous, mostly in two rows, and slightly bent down- 

 wards ; branchlets, drooping on each side, and considerably 

 subdivided; from two to six inches long, closely covered by 

 numerous oval-pointed, imbricated, scale-like leaves, arranged 

 in four rows resembling small green cord. Cones, globular, or 

 somewhat oblong, from three-quarters to one inch long, and 

 produced in great abundance in dense clusters, each cone con- 

 sisting generally of ten scales, of the shape of a shield, with 

 from four to six convex facets, rising into a kind of boss in the 

 centre, which is stiff and woody when ripe, and furnished in 

 the centre with a short, reflected, spiny point. Seeds, small, 

 nearly flat, of a light brown colour, with a narrow wing round 

 the border, and from six to seven under each scale. Seed-leaves 

 only two in number. 



