PINACE^ 215 



Var. erecta. 

 Fastigiate and narrow in habit. 



Var. ficoides, Masters. 



A plant of dense habit, with short branches and the ultimate 

 divisions of the branchlets very short, compact, and fern-like, 



Fig. U.—CUPRESSUS OBTUSA. 

 a, spray with two cones ; 6, branchlets ; c, seeds. 



less flattened than in the type. Leaves nearly equal in size, in 

 four ranks, ovate, obtuse, often glandular. 



Var. formosana. 



Cupressus obtusa, forma formosana Hayata. 



A tree attaining 130 ft. high in the mountains of Formosa. 

 Leaves, cones, and seeds smaller than in the typical form. Ripe 

 cones about | in. in diameter. Seeds about I'o in. across. Intro- 



