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Cupressus funebris, Endlicher. (Fig. 38.) 

 Chinese Weeping Cypress. 



Funereal Cypress. 



A tree attaining in China 70 ft. in height and 6 ft. in girth. 

 When growing in close formation it assumes a slender habit 



Fig. 3S.— cupressus FUNEBRIS. 

 a, spray witli cone ; 6, branchlets clothed with scale leaves ; c, seed. 



with short, pendulous branches, but isolated specimens develop a 

 loose, wide-spreading head made up of massive branches. Branch- 

 let sijstems alternate, flattened, bipinnate, the ultimate divisions 

 compressed. Leaves greyish green, of two kinds ; lateral pairs 

 folded face to face ; facial pairs flattened, ovate, keeled or 



