104 JUNIPERUS ; OR 



8,000 feet, where it produces Sandarac, but in iiiucli smaller 

 quantity than^the Mexican Juniper (J. Mexicana). 

 It is very distinct, and tolerably hardy. 



No. 16. JuNiPERUS Japonica, Carriere, the Japan Juniper. 

 Syn. Juniperus procumbens, Siehold. 

 if „ Chinensis procumbens, Endlicher. 



Leaves, in whorls of three, thickly set on the shoots, spread- 

 ing, rigid, and tapering to a sharp prickly point ; straight, 

 smooth, bright green, and convex, with hardly any trace of the 

 mid-rib on the under side ; channelled, with two glaucous lines 

 on the upper one, while those on the outer branches in the 

 adult plants are very small, ovate, blunt at the points, closely 

 imbricated, and three-sided. Branches, spread out, numerous, 

 twisted, and frequently bent downward at the ends ; smaller 

 ones, very dense, short, rigid, and covered at the ends with 

 small closely-imbricated leaves. Berries, solitary, at the points 

 of the small lateral branchlets, small, irregularly egg-shaped, 

 gibbous, and sometimes two-lobed, containing from one to three 

 seeds in each, of a very deep purple, covered with a glaucous 

 powder, before and when ripe. 



A small dense- spreading bush, not growing more than one 

 or two feet high, found plentiful on the mountains of Japan. 



It is quite hardy, and very distinct. 



No. 17. Juniperus Mexicana, Scklecht, the Sandarac, or 

 Mexican Juniper. 

 Syn. Juniperus Deppiana, Steudel. 

 „ „ foetida thurifera, Spach, 



„ Cupressus Sabinoides, Humboldt. 



Leaves (on the adult plants), in opposite pairs, very short, 

 three quarters of a line long, ovate-pointed, and loosely im- 

 bricated ; but ovate, blunt-pointed, and closely imbricated on 

 the small branchlets, four-rowed, and marked on the back with 

 an elliptic gland, and of a dull greyish colour. 



Leaves (on the young plantsj, mostly Jn threes, round 



