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towards the extremities; branchlets, numerous, spreading in 

 every direction, and thickly furnished with extended leaves. 

 Male and female flowers separate, but on the same plant. 

 Cones, globular, solitary, about the size of a small pea, terminal 

 on the ends of the preceding year's branches. Scales, ten or 

 twelve in number, in opposite decussate pairs, at first close, 

 afterwards, when mature, irregularly separated, and spread out, 

 wedge-shaped at the base, extended at the summit, and of a 

 brown colour, with two seeds at the base of each scale, sur- 

 rounded by a large, membranaceous, brown wing, much longer 

 than the seeds, and irregularly marked with numerous little 

 resinous bands. 



A large bush or small tree, inhabiting the Island of Kiusiu, 

 in the province of Figo, and the wooded mountains of Sukejama, 

 in Japan. It is also found cultivated in the Japanese gardens 

 as a bush, from four to six feet high, where they have the fol- 

 lowing varieties also in cultivation. It is tender, and called 

 ' Sinobu-hiba,' in Japan. 



Retinispora squarrosa leptoclada, Siebold. 

 Syn. Chamaecyparis squarrosa leptoclada, Endlicher. 

 This differs in having its branches much slenderer, and its 

 branchlets and leaves much smaller. 



It is a compact little bush, with very numerous slender 

 branchlets, closely covered with leaves, sometimes in threes, but 

 frequently in opposite pairs, and growing from two to four feet 

 high, and cultivated by the Japanese in pots, under the name 

 of* Nezu' (dwarf). 



Retinispora squarrosa variegata, Siebold, 

 Syn. Chamsecyparis squarrosa variegata, Endlicher. 



This variety differs in having some of its branchlets and 

 leaves of a white colour, intermixed with the ordinary green 

 ones in a variegated manner. 



