PINACEiE 183 



Var, typica. 



This is the typical form occurring wild in Japan. It forms a 

 tall, pyramidal tree with spreading branches and rather small, 

 dark green leaves. Bracts of the cones long-pointed ; seeds 

 usually 5 to each fertile scale. 



The garden forms include the following : — 



Var. araucarioides. 



Branchlets long, slender, and wide apart. Leaves dark green, 

 short, stout, stiff, curving inwards. 



Var. dacrydioides, Carriere. 



Habit compact ; branchlets rather short, slender. Leaves 

 small, \ in. long, closely set, stiff, dark green. Elwes and Henry 

 suggest that it may be a depauperate form. 



Var. elegans, Masters. (Fig. 35.) 



C. gracilis, Hort. ; C. elegans, Veitch. 



A well-marked variety of bushy habit in which the juvenile 

 type of foliage is retained. Branch system dense, main branches 

 short, branchlets numerous. Leaves spreading outwards and 

 downwards, flattened, narrow, soft to the touch, |— 1 in. long, 

 bright green in summer, changing to a reddish-bronze colour 

 in autumn and winter, and back again to green in spring. Cones, 

 rarely produced, smaller and smoother than those of the type. 

 Introduced from Japan in 1861 by John Gould Veitch. 



Var. elegans nana. 



A dwarf plant of dense habit with crowded leaves, bearing the 

 juvenile type of foliage. 



Var. fasciata. 

 A stunted plant with many of the branches fasciated. 



Var. Lobbii nana. 



Of dwarf habit. 



Var. nana, Fortune. 



Vo.r. pygmsea, Kjaight. 



A low bush, usually below 3 ft. high, of compact habit with 

 twisted or erect leaves. 



Var. pendula, Leroy. 

 Lateral branchlets long, slender, pendent. 



Var. pungens, Hort. 



Leaves straighter, stiffer, more spreading and sharper-pointed 

 than in the type. 



