114 JUNIPERUS; OR 



JUNIPERUS ViRGINIANA VARIEGATA, Hort. 



This variety has whitish leaves, intermixed with the ordinary 

 green ones, and makes an interesting variety, of which there is 

 two forms, one with white silvery leaves, the other with golden 

 yellow ones. 



JUNIPERUS ViRGINIANA BaRBADENSIS, LoudoU. 



Syn. Juniperus Virginiana Australis, Carriere. 

 „ „ „ gracilis, Hort. 



„ „ Bedfordiana, Knight. 



„ „ Gossainthanea, Loddiges. 



„ „ Barbadensis, 3Iichaux. 



This variety has much slenderer branches, which are reflected 

 at the extremities, and frequently drooping ; branchlets, very 

 numerous, long, straight, slim, and frequently pendant. Leaves, 

 in opposite pairs, or in whorls of three, needle-shaped, straight, 

 narrow, and sharp-pointed on young plants ; but very short and 

 blunt-pointed on those of the adult plants, and closely imbri- 

 cated. 



A tree growing fifty or sixty feet high, with a trunk one foot 

 and a half in diameter. 



It is found in the Island of Barbadoes, and other Windward 

 Islands, but has been widely distributed by the Loddiges under 

 the name of Juniperus Gossainthanea, a name evidently origi- 

 nating in carelessness, for no such plant is to be found in that 

 part of India, as is evident from the writings of such excellent 

 and acute observers as Major Madden, Mr. Winterbottom, and 

 Drs. Wallich, Hooker, and Griffith ; for if such a tree existed in 

 Gossainthan, it certainly would have been detected by one or 

 other of those excellent travellers. 



It is rather tender. 



No. 27. Juniperus Webbii, Carriere, "Webb's Juniper. 

 Syn. Juniperus Canariensis, Knight. 



Leaves, in threes, very much spread out, and distant, fre- 

 quently smaller towards the summit, and narrower, bluntly- 



