1 158 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



the Levant in early times, and which are usually ornamented with carving, and 

 sometimes bear Greek lettering, are believed to be made of this wood. Shake- 

 speare, in The Taming of the Shrew, II. i. 353, says: 



In ivory coffers I have stuffed my crowns ; 

 In cypress chests my arras counterpoints, 

 Costly apparel, tents, and canopies. 



(H.J. E.) 



CUPRESSUS TORULOSA, Himalayan Cypress 



Cupressus torulosa, Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 55(1825); Lambert, Genus Pinus, ii. 18 (1824) ; Loudon, 

 Arb. et Prut. Brit. iv. 2478 (1838); Lawson, Pittet. Brit. ii. 201, t. 35 (1867); Hooker, Fl. 

 Brit.Ind.v. 645 (1888); Masters, in Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) xxxi. 335 (1896); Kent, Veitch's 

 Man. Com/. 233 (1900); Gamble, Indian Timbers, 696 (1902); Collett, Ft. Simlensis, 483 

 (1902); Brandis, Indian Trees, 693 (1906). 



Cupressus Tourne/ortii, Tenore, in Mem. Soc. Ital. Sc. Modena, xv. pt. 2, p. 194 (1855) (not 

 Audibert). 



Cupressus pendu/a, Hopf, in Regel, Gartenflora, iii. 279 (1854) (not Thunberg). 



Cupressus majestica, Knight and Perry, Syn. Com/. 20 (1850). 



Cupressus Corneyana, Knight and Perry, Syn. Com/. 20 (1850). 



A tree, attaining in the Himalayas 150 ft. in height and $7 ft- m girth- 

 Bark, in. thick, brown, peeling off in long, narrow fibrous strips. Branches 

 horizontal or ascending, with pendulous tips, forming a broad pyramidal crown. 

 Branchlet systems alternate, distichous, two- or three-pinnate, with the pinnae dis- 

 posed more or less in one plane. Ultimate branchlets often curved, tetragonal, 

 equal-sided, -^ in. in diameter. Leaves ' uniform in four ranks, closely appressed, 

 ^ in. long, ovate, obtuse at the apex, convex on the back, and often with an 

 obscure longitudinal glandular depression. Older branchlets reddish brown, not 

 glaucous, terete, with the leaves completely deciduous in the fifth year. 



Staminate flowers in. long, when open, with three to four anthers on each 

 of the twelve to sixteen stamens. Cones, when young, green variously tinged 

 with plum colour, ripening in October and November of the second year, often 

 persistent after the fall of the seeds for one or two years longer ; when mature, on 

 short recurved stalks, globose or ellipsoidal, in. in diameter, dark reddish 

 brown ; scales, eight to ten, with the outer surface depressed in the centre and 

 giving off a small triangular, rounded or acute, often recurved process. Seeds, six 

 to eight on each scale, pale brown, in. long, flattened on one surface, convex and 

 scarcely ridged on the other, with inconspicuous resin vesicles ; wing rather broad, 

 with a narrow translucent border. Cotyledons, three to five. 2 



1 Hood, in Card. Chron. 1847, p. 766, states that the foliage gives off a peculiar scent, noticeable on a windy day to 

 leeward of the tree. 



2 Described by Hill and De Fraine, in Ann. Bot. xxii. 699 (1908). 



