PINACE^ 195 



Cupressus Duclouxiana, Hickel. ^ 



Cupressus sempervirens, Franchet (not Linnseus). 



An elegant species closely allied to G. sempervirens, var. 

 horizontalis, but differs from it in its slenderer, glaucous branch- 

 lets (about t'u-;,',, in. in diameter), with very small, obscurely 

 glandular leaves about .'„ in. long. Cones globose, £-1 in. in 

 diameter ; scales usually 8, rather flat ; seeds \ in. long, narrowly 

 winged, with tubercles on the surface. 



Native of Yunnan, China, and formerly confused with C. 

 sempervirens. Young trees raised from Chinese seed are in 

 cultivation in Normandy, Orleans, and in Cornwall. 



Cupressus formosensis, Henry. (Fig. 37.) 

 FoRMOSAN Cypress. 



Chamsecyparis formosensis, Matsumiira. Beniki. 



A species attaining an enormous size in Formosa, where trees up 

 to 195 ft. high and 72 ft. in girth have been recorded. 2 It has the 

 flattened branchlet systems characteristic of the section Chamce- 

 cyparis, with the ultimate divisions flattened. Leaves dull green 

 tinged with brown, often whitish on the lower surface ; closely 

 pressed but free at the incurved and shortly mucronate apex, 

 the lateral ones boat-shaped, as long as the facial ones, which 

 are ovate and i\j in. long, either keeled or with a glandular 

 pit. Cones ripening in the first year, ellipsoid, I in. in diameter ; 

 scales 10-11 with the outer surface wrinkled, brownish, depressed 

 in the centre, bearing a conspicuous quadrangular process. 

 Seeds 2 on each scale, brown, oval, with narrow wings and 

 conspicuous resin-tubercles. 



This species differs from C. pisifera in the colour and shape 

 of the leaves and in the ellipsoid cones. 



A very remarkable cypress, occurring on Mount Morrison in 

 Formosa at 7,000-10,000 ft. altitude, where it forms almost pure 

 forests associated with C. ohtusa. It was introduced in 1910 by 

 Capt. (now Vice-Admiral Sir Lewis) Clinton-Baker, who sent a 

 young plant ^ to Bayfordbury, where seedlings have since been 

 raised from seed sent by Dr. Shirasawa. One is now 10 ft. high. 

 The plant is also in cultivation at Kew. From its present appear- 

 ance it promises to become a very useful and ornamental tree 

 in Britain. 



Mr. H. J. Elwes* saw C. formosensis growing in Formosa. 



1 Camus, Les Cypres, p. 91 (1910). 



^ Clinton-Baker, Illust. Conif. iii, frontispiece (1913). 



* KiUed by the great drought of l!»21, when 12 ft high. 



*Quar. Journ. For. (1912), 269-272. 



