184 A HANDBOOK OF CONIFERS 



Var. selaginoides. 

 Branches long, slender, with short- tufted branchlets near apex. 



Var, spiralis, Siebold. 



Var. spiraltier falcata. 



A curious variety with slender branches. Leaves closely 

 pressed and twisted, giving a screw-like character to the branch. 



Var. albo-variegata. 



Shoots with white leaves occurring here and there amongst 

 leaves of normal colour. 



Var. variegata. 



Leaves variegated with yellow. 



The following varieties are grown under Japanese names : — 



Var. Kusari Sugi. 

 A dwarf plant with clustered branches. 



Var. Ha-o-Sugi. 



Branchlets long, slender, and curvmg. Leaves thick, pointed, 

 incurved. 



Var. Husari-Sugi. 



Branches curiously bent. 



Var. Sekkwia-Sugi. 



An erect tree of free growth with the point of every shoot 

 fasciated. 



Var. Yenko-Sugi. 

 A form with long, slender branches bearing few branchlets. 



Cryptomeria is allied to Araucaria and Sequoia. It resembles 

 Araucaria Cunninghamii in its spirally arranged fohage, but 

 the leaves of the latter end in bristle-like points, whereas in 

 CryjHomeria thej'' are merely bluntly pointed. Sequoia gigantea 

 differs in having its subulate leaves closely pressed against the 

 branchlet and arranged in three ranks. In Cryptomeria the 

 leaves are free in their upper half, and are arranged in five ranks. 



It is a native of China and Japan, and was originally dis- 

 covered in the former country in 1701 by J. Cunningham, and in 

 Japan by Kaempfer in 1692. It, however, remained for Captain 

 Everard Hume to introduce the tree to England, for he sent 

 seeds to Kew in 1842. Two years later Fortune sent seeds to 

 the Royal Horticultural Society. 



Wood coarse-grained and fragrant, heartwood red, sapwood 

 yellow or whitish. It is strong, durable, easy to work, very 

 variable in grain, sometimes handsomely figured, and is one of 



