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pointed or somewhat obtuse, thin, slender, and quite straight, 

 slightly keeled on the under side, and slightly glaucous above. 

 Branches, horizontal, bent downwards at the ends ; branchlets, 

 very long, slender, seldom forked, and frequently pendant ; 

 fruit-bearing ones covered with small scales one line in length. 

 Berries, somewhat globular, of a reddish yellow colour, or dull 

 greenish yellow, with small prickly scales on the top when 

 young, but almost smooth when matured, or slightly tuberculed, 

 and of a reddish brown, slightly glaucous in colour, and from 

 three-tenths to four-tenths of an inch in diameter. 



A large tree, according to "Webb, four or five feet in circum- 

 ference, found in the Canary Islands, and said to be distinguished 

 from all others by its branches and branchlets, being very 

 slender, very long, and seldom forked, and by its berries being 

 warted on the summit, and terminating when young in small 

 prickles, and scattered along all the little branchlets on the 

 upper parts of the trees. 



It is tender, and probably only a variety of Juniperus Ber- 

 mudiana, growing to a large size in a favourable climate. 



Section III. CUPRESSOIDES. The Cypress-like Junipers. 



Leaves, in opposite pairs, four-rowed, small, scale-formed, and 

 closely-imbricated in the adult plants. 



Fruit, more or less angular, and furnished with external 

 bracts, or humps. 



No. 28. Juniperus Chinensis, Linnceus, the Chinese Juniper. 

 Syn. Juniperus diraorpha, Roxburgh. 

 ^^ „ dicecia, Makoy. 



This species has the male and female on separate plants, which 

 are very dissimilar in appearance. 



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