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This species, which occurs on Mount Morrison in Formosa, at 7000 to 10,000 

 feet altitude, appears to be allied to C. Lawsoniana, and is reported to attain an 

 enormous size, Beissner having received from A. Unger of Yokohama a photograph 

 of a tree said to be 72 feet in girth. 1 There are herbarium specimens at Berlin, 

 which I have not seen. It is described as having acute green leaves not marked 

 with white lines as in C. pisifera ; and the cones are intermediate in size between 

 those of that species and those of C. obtusa. No seeds of this remarkable species 

 have as yet reached Europe. 



Cupressus Hodginsii, Dunn, mjourn. Linn. Soc. (Sot.) xxxviii. 367 (1908). 



Described 2 from specimens collected near Foochow, China, consisting of 

 detached foliage and cones. The former resembles the foliage of young trees of 

 Libocedrus macrolepis in cultivation at Kew. The cones are very peculiar, resembling 

 those of a cypress, but containing seeds with two very unequal wings, and indicate 

 a new and interesting species, doubtfully referable to Cupressus. 



Cupressus thurifera, Humboldt, Bonpland, and Kunth, Nov. Sp. et Gen. ii. 

 3 (1817); Masters, in Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) xxxi. 349, figs. 25-27 (1896) ; Kent, 

 Veitch's Man. Conif. 230 (1900). 



Chamacyparis thurifera, Endlicher, Syn. Conif. 62 (1847). 



A rare species, recorded for three or four localities in Mexico, and doubtfully 

 referable to Cupressus. There are cones in the Kew herbarium collected by Botteri 3 

 at Orizaba which were attributed to this species by Dr. Masters. These cones 

 are globose, composed of six non- peltate scales, decussately arranged, and fitting 

 close together by their margins; each scale bears the scars of attachment of one to 

 three wingless seeds. Kent described this species from specimens, said to have been 

 sent from La Mortola, but which cannot now be found in Messrs. Veitch's museum 

 at Chelsea ; and Mr. A. Berger writes 4 that no tree of this kind now exists at La 

 Mortola. It is doubtful if this species was ever introduced, as Carriere 5 states that 

 the plant formerly grown under this name was a Biota ; and seeds of supposed 

 C. thurifera, distributed in 1909, by the Dendrological Society of France, differed in 

 no respect from those of C. lusitanica. (A. H.) 



1 While these pages were finally going through the press, Mr. H. Clinton-Baker has shown me a photograph, taken by 

 Mr. A. R Firth, Consul at Tamsui, of an enormous tree of this species, growing on Mt. Ari, which measures 125 ft. in height, 

 with a stem free of branches for 45 ft. and 67 ft. in girth. Capt. L. Clinton-Baker, R.N., has just brought home excellent 

 specimens in fruit, and two living plants, which will be planted at Bayfordbury. 



2 While these pages were finally going through the press, Mr. H. Clinton-Baker has received from Capt. Hodgins, 

 excellent specimens in fruit. There are now four living {plants at Bayfordbury, two sent in 1909, and two brought home in 

 April 1910, by Capt. L. Clinton-Baker, R.N. 



8 Lindley, in Card. Chron. 1856, p. 772, states that Botteri sent cones of a cultivated plant, from which very glaucous 

 seedlings like a Thuya were raised in the Chiswick Garden. 



4 Mr. Berger states that two plants formerly cultivated under this name at La Mortola turned out to be Cupressus 

 sempervirens and C. lusitanica, var. Benthami. 



1 Ctmif. 135 (1867). 



