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of 2-5 on stalks |-1 in. long. Seed olive-green, |-1 in. long, with 

 an ellipsoid circular depression at the apex from which arises a 

 short point. 



This variety, unknown in a wild state, has long been in cultiva- 



FiG. 2.—CEPHAL0TAXUS DRUPACEA. 



a, shoot with young male flowers ; 6, leaf-buds and under-surface of leaves ; c, section of leaf. 



tion in Japan, having apparently been introduced there from 

 Corea or China by Buddhist monks. Prof. Henry suggests that 

 it is a hybrid between C. Fortunei and C. drupacea, this supposition 

 being based upon the statement that the seeds of C. Fortunei 

 sent by Fortune from China in 1848 to the Bagshot Nursery 

 produced two kinds of plants, one kind with long leaves identical 



