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resin. Awl-shaped or needle-like leaves often 

 present. Fruit reddish brown, tuberculate on the 

 surface. Seeds 4.— J. pachyphloea. 

 Leaves entire in margin. 

 Fruit l-l in. long. 



Branchlets more or less regularly pinnate ; ultimate 

 divisions aV in. in diameter. Leaves ovate ap- 

 pressed, free at their acute or acuminate tips with 

 a conspicuous glandular depression on the back. 

 Needle-hke foliage often present. Fruit blue. 

 Seeds 2-4. — J. thurifera. 



Branchlets more or less radially arranged, slender, g^o 

 in. in diameter. Leaves ovate-triangular, free at 

 their acute or sub-acute tips, marked on the back 

 with a depressed gland. — J. excelsa. 

 Fruit ^l in. in diameter. 



Ultimate branchlets very slender, ^V in. in diameter, 

 terete. Leaves appressed, ovate, acute, or acumin- 

 ate, often with a small oval depression on the back. 

 Needle-like foliage usually present. Fruit bluish, 

 |-J in. in diameter. Seeds 1-2.— J. virginiana. 



Shrub, similar in fohage to J. virginiana, but with an 

 unpleasant smell when rubbed, and the peduncle 

 of the fruit curved, not straight, as in the latter 

 species. — J. Sahina. 



Closely allied to J. virginiana, but distinguished by its 

 somewhat larger fruits, ripening in the second year. 

 Branchlets also somewhat shorter and stouter. Foli- 

 age usually glaucous or yellowish-green. — J. scopu- 

 lorum. 



Foliage glaucous. Ultimate branchlets o^j-jV in. in 

 diameter, quadrangular. Leaves closely appressed, 

 ovate, obtuse at the incurved apex, with a con- 

 spicuous dorsal furrow. Needle-hke foliage usually 

 present. Fruit \ in. in diameter. Seeds 2-3.— J. 

 hermudiana. 



Ultimate branchlets terete, ^V in. in diameter, marked 

 with white crosses due to the pale margins of the 

 leaves, which are compressed rhombic, obtuse, 

 with an inconspicuous gland. Needle-hke fohage 

 usually present. Fruit with a white mealy bloom, 

 sub-globose and widest at the summit. Seeds 

 2-5. — J. chinensis. 



