7*2 CUPRESSUS. 



No. 16. CuPREssus Whitleyana, Hort, the Straight Indian 



Cypress. 

 Syn. Cupressus semper virens Indica, E. I. Camp. 

 „ y, E-oylci, Carriere. 



„ „ Australis, Low. 



Leaves, on the younger plants, in opposite pairs, distant, 

 spreading, and of a slight glaucous green colour, awl-shaped, 

 widest at the base, decurrent, and tapering to a sharp point, 

 from two to four lines long, quite straight, and thinly set on 

 the branches, while those on the adult plants are very small, 

 oval, blunt-pointed, closely imbricated, regularly in four rows, 

 thickened towards the point, and glossy green. Branches, nu- 

 merous, erect, rather distant, and thin on the young plants, but 

 dense and closely compressed on the older ones, and forming a 

 pyramid ; branchlets, erect, numerous, mostly pointing up- 

 wards, thickly covered with foliage, and four-sided. Cones, 

 large, globular, one inch in diameter, and very much resembling 

 those of the Common Cypress. Scales, rather small, mostly 

 eight or ten in number, nearly flat, or slightly elevated in the 

 centre, with a very uneven surftice, and short, blunt point. 

 Seeds, large, with rather a broad wing surrounding the seed. 



A tall, pyramidal tree, and, according to Mr. Elphinstone, 

 growing 100 feet high in the gardens of Kohaut and Peshawur. 

 The Straight Cypress is also found plentiful in Nepal and the 

 Kooloo country. It very much resembles the Common Cypress 

 when old, but has not so close or dense a head when young. 



It is rather tender, but about as hardy as Cupressus torulosa, 

 with which Indian travellers frequently confound it, although 

 one is upright, and the other pendulous when old. 



