GLYPTOSTllOBUS. 89 



Gen. GLYPTOSTROBUS. Endlicher. The Em- 

 bossed Cypress. 



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

 but on separate parts, and terminal. 



Cones, egg-shaped, or oblong, and composed of several 

 unequal-sized scales, all rising from the same point at the base, 

 and leathery. 



Seeds, two under each scale. 



Leaves, scattered and trigonal. 



Name, derived from ' Glypho,' embossed, and ' strobus,' a 

 cone ; scales of the cone embossed on the face. 



A small tree, native of China, where it is called Water Pine. 



Glyptostrobus hetkrophyllus, Endlicher, the Chinese 



Water Pine. 

 Syn. Taxodium nuciferum, Brongniart. 



„ „ Japonicum, Denhardt. 



„ „ „ heterophyllum, Brongniart. 



„ Scubertia Japonica, Spach. 



„ „ nucifera, Denhardt. 



„ Thuia lineata, Poiret. 



„ „ „ lavandulsefolia, Poiret. 



„ „ pensilis, Staunton. 



„ Cupressus nucifera, Hort. 



„ „ Sinensis, Hort. 



„ Juniperus aquatica, Roxburgh. 

 Leaves, of various shapes, alternate, some scale-formed, small, 

 ovate, acute or obtuse pointed, sometimes much longer, closely 

 pressed and decurrent along the shorts, sometimes two-rowed, 

 regularly tortuose and almost awl-shaped ; from three to eigVit 

 lines long, slightly curved, blunt or somewhat acute at the ends, 

 and of a glaucous grey colour, the lower ones near the base of 

 the shoots frequently very short, scale-formed, somewhat trian- 

 gular, imbricated, and compressed, but increasing in size and 



