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Juniperus barbadensis, Linnaeus. 

 Barbados Cedar. 



Juniperus virginiana, var. australis, Endlicher ; J. virginiana, var. 

 barbadensis, Gordon. Red Cedar ; Southern Red Cedar. 



A tree attaining a height of 50 ft. and a girth of G ft., with 

 pendulous branches and branchlets. Branchlets more slender 

 and drooping than in J. virginiana. Leaves smaller, \-}, in. long 

 in a juvenile state, about o\, in. long when mature, glandular on 

 the back. Male and female flowers on different trees. Fruit 

 ripening in the first year, sub-globose, smaller than in J. virginiana, 

 \-\ in. in diameter, glaucous. 8eeds one or two to each fruit, 

 ovoid, pointed, ridged. 



This juniper is found wild in coastal swamps from S. Georgia 

 to Florida, and also occurs in the West Indies. It is not known 

 to be in cultivation in Britain. 



Wood soft, close grained, red, and fragrant. It is of the same 

 importance as J. virginiana for pencil-making when it can be 

 procured in quantity, but the tree is scarce. In suitable parts 

 of the West Indies the cultivation of this tree is worthy of atten- 

 tion. A small plantation has already been formed at Reunion.^ 



J. Bedfordiana, a tree of columnar habit, with slender, drooping 

 branchlets and bright green awl-shaped leaves, is considered to 

 be a form of J. barbadensis, but in the absence of fruit its identity 

 is difficult to decide. 



Mohr, U.S. Forest. Bull. 'i>io. 31, p. 37, t. ii (1901); Sargent, Silva, xiv, 89, 

 t. 738 (1902). 



Juniperus bermudiana, Linnoeus. 

 Bermuda Cedar. 



Juniperus fragrans, Hort. Bermuda Red Cedar. 



A tree 40-50 ft. high, with a trunk 9-12 ft. in girth in the 

 Bermudas, where it is the only indigenous, exogenous tree. Bark 

 dark red. Branches much divided, the ultimate branchlets, 

 except in juvenile trees, four-sided, about 2V in. in diameter, 

 with scale-like, overlapping leaves, arranged in 4 ranks, each 

 about tV in. long, ovate, blunt, incurved at the apex, greyish 

 green or glaucous on the back, which is often furrowed. Leaves 

 on the main branchlets in threes, up to j in. long ; juvenile leaves 

 awl-shaped, occasionally seen on old trees. Male and female 

 floivers on different trees. Fruit ripening in the first year, 

 globose, about J in. in diameter, glaucous, each scale marked 

 by a depression with a minute point. Seeds 2-3, shining chest- 

 nut brown, ovoid, furrowed. 



Formerly abundant in Bermuda, thriving both on the lime- 

 stone hills and in brackish swamps, but large trees are no longer 

 common. It was cultivated in England as early as 1684, but it 

 is not hardy here, and has not attained a large size. Specimens 



^ Eep. on the Agric. Dept. St. Lucia (1914-15). 



