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point, dark shining green on the upper surface with two longitu- 

 dinal glaucous grooves beneath. Male flowers globose, about 

 \ in. in diameter, in the axils of the leaves of the terminal shoots. 

 Seeds elliptical or obovoid in outline, green, streaked with purple 

 when ripe, l-g-lf in. long, flesh thin and resinous, shell of the seed 

 furrowed. 



Distinguished from other species by its long, flat, rigid leaves. 



This handsome conifer is only found wild in California, where it 

 grows sparingly on the borders of mountain streams from Mendo- 

 cino County to the Santa Cruz mountains in the coast region and 

 along the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada from Eldorado to 

 Tulare County at 3,000-5,000 ft. elevation. It was discovered 

 in 1851 by Wm. Lobb, who sent specimens and seeds to Messrs. 

 Veitch the same year. 



Wood light yellow or nearly white, used locally for fence posts. 



Torreya grandis, Fortune. (Fig. 9.) 



Torreya nucifcra, var. grandis, Pilger. 



A tree occasionally 60-80 ft. high in China but more often a 

 shrub. Yo2mg shoots green, glabrous, becoming yellowish-green 

 in the second year. Leaves similar to those of T. nucifera in 

 size and shape, but yellowish-green in colour and without the 

 aromatic odour of that species, and thinner in texture, with 

 similar deeply impressed stomatic bands. Seeds broadly ellipsoid 

 or sub-globose, |-1 in. long with a reddish-brown shell. 



T. grandis may generally be recognized from T. nucijera by 

 the yellowish -green colour of the two-year-old branchlets and the 

 other characters mentioned above. 



It was discovered by Fortune in the mountains of Chekiang 

 on the east coast of China in 1855, and has since been found in 

 the central provinces of Hupeh and Szechuen, but usually in bush 

 form. Although introduced in 1855, it is a rare plant in cultivation. 



Torreya nucifera, Siebold and Zuccarini. (Fig. 10.) 



Kaya. 



Turnion miciferum, Greene. 



A tree 20-80 ft. high and 12-15 ft. in girth m Japan. Bark 

 smooth, Ught red.^ Branches numerous, stout, horizontal. 

 Branchlets opposite, green when young, changing to reddish 

 brown in the second year. Bnds prismatic, about | in. long, with 

 shining membranous scales. Leaves with a pungent odour when 

 rubbed, linear, rigid, curved, |-1| in. long, ending abruptly in 

 a spiny point, dark shining green above, with two stomatic lines, 

 about equalling the midrib m breadth, beneath. Male flowers 



1 Sargent, For. Fl. of Jap. 76 (1894). 



