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CONl'FEll^. CUPRE SSUS. 



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Engravings. Onr fias. 2.3'29. to 2331. of the natural size, from specimens taken from the plant in the 

 Hort. Soc. Garden" and showing the very different appearance that the shoots assume on the same 

 plant, and that even a young one. 



Spec. Char., ^-c. Leaves ovate-obtuse, imbricated in 4 rows. Galbulus 

 globose, pedicellate. Scales bossed. Branchlets round, knotted, divari- 

 cate, crowded, spreading. {Lamb. Pin., ii. No. 59.) A tree, a native of 

 Nepal, on the Bhotan Alps. Introduced in 1824 ; flowering in April. 

 Bescriptio7i, l^c. A beautiful, pyramidal, much-branched, evergreen tree 

 covered with a brown bark. Branches crowded, ascending ; branchlets much 

 crowded, round, divaricate, spreading, knotted, 2 in. to 6 in. long, very closely 

 imbricated with leaves. Leaves small, ovate-obtuse, convex, smooth, imbri- 

 cated in 4 rows, adpressed, green; adult ones persistent, and falling off. 



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with the bark. Only young male catkins seen : these numerous on the 

 summit of the smaller branchlets, club-shaped, tetragonal, imbricated. Gal- 

 bulus globose, on a very short scaly pedicel, pitch-black, of a glaucous hue ; 

 scales trapezoidal, bossed in the middle, thick, woody. (Lamb.) Found by 

 Dr. Royle on the Himalayas, at 11,300 ft. above the level of the sea; also in 

 Kunawar, on the borders of Chinese Tartary, Seeds were sent to England 

 in 1824, and again in 1830, by Dr. Wallich ; and there is a plant in the Hor- 

 ticultural Society's Garden, which, 6 years planted, is now 6 ft. high. There 

 are also young plants in the Fulham and several other London nurseries ; in 

 the pinetum in the Chester Nursery, and in that at Elvaston Castle. As it 

 appears tolerably hardy, and is very handsome, it well deserves a place in 

 collections. 



t 5. C. pe'ndula Thunb. The weeping Cypress. 



IdentiUcation. Thunb. Fl. Japon., p. 265. ; Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 512. ; Staunt, Embass., 2. p. -KS. 

 Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., t. 66. 



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