296 RETINISPORA ; OR 



but those on the sides adhere only by the lower face ; the upper 

 and lower ones are ovate-lanceolate, tapering to a hard point, 

 keeled on the back, and smooth, the lateral ones compressed at 

 the edges on both sides, almost sickle-shaped, equally long, 

 acute-pointed, and marked on the under side with two white 

 glaucous bands. Branches, numerous, thickly covered with 

 branchlets, the lateral ones in two rows, and very thickly 

 covered with leaves ; male and female flowers on the same 

 plants; the male catkins terminal on the upper branchlets, 

 cylindrical, obtuse, and numerous ; female ones terminal also in 

 the same manner as the males. Cones, ovate-globose, about 

 the size of a large pea, and composed of ten or twelve scales in 

 opposite cross pairs, regularly imbricated. Scales, ovate- 

 rhomboid, a little pointed, crenulate, wedge-shaped, and fleshy 

 at the base, attenuated, and spread out horizontal at the apex, 

 dilated, raised in the centre, woody, and of a yellowish-brown 

 colour, with a smooth surface. Seeds, in twos at the base of 

 each scale, with a large membranaceous brownish wing, frcr 

 quently much broader than the seed. 



A much smaller tree, and slenderer than Retinispora obtusa, 

 with its stem much less elevated, and darker-coloured bark, 

 found upon the Island of Niphon, in Japan, where it is called 

 ' Sawara.' 



No. 4. Hetinispora squarrosa, Siebold, the Squarrose-leaved 

 Japan Cypress. 

 Syn. Chamaecyparis squarrosa, Endllcher. 

 „ Cupressus squarrosa, Laioson. 



Leaves, spiral, or in alternate whorls, spreading, linear, 

 sharp-pointed, decurrent, dense, snjooth, and frequently bent, 

 or curved backwards, but somewhat scale-formed, and slightly 

 adpressed on the male and cone-bearing branchlets, those on the 

 young plants longer, linear, sharp-pointed, spread out, reflexed, 

 and bright glaucous green above, and furnished with two white 

 glaucous bands on the under side, from three to four lines long, 

 and half a line broad. Branches, slender, gracefully curved 



