Cupr 



essus 1 1 6 1 



handsome tree, with stouter branchlets than usual, 80 ft. by 9 ft., which was bearing 

 cones, and may be the variety described as var. majestica. 



Timber 



According to Gamble, the timber is even more durable 1 than that of the 

 deodar, and is used for building temples and for sleepers, though not procured in 

 sufficient quantity to have much commercial importance. The wood is also burned 

 as incense in Hindu temples. It weighs from 34 to 44 lbs. per cubic foot. It is 

 moderately hard and close-grained, with white sapwood, and light brown and very 

 fragrant heartwood, which shows darker streaks. The annual rings are distinctly 

 marked by a narrow dark-coloured belt, with resin-cells in lines near them, which 

 are very numerous in old trees. (H. J. E.) 



CUPRESSUS CASHMERIANA 



Cupressus cashmeriana, Royle, 2 ex Carriere, Conif. i. 161 (1867). 

 Cupressus funebris, Endlicher, var. glauca, Masters, Kew Handlist Conif. 37 (1896). 

 Cupressus toru/osa, Don, var. kashmiriana, Kent, Veitch's Man. Conif. 234 (1900). 

 Juniperi sp., 3 Griffith, Itin. Notes, 100, No. 27 (1848). 



A tree, the dimensions of which in the wild state are not known, but described 

 by Griffith as small, extremely elegant, and with smooth bark. In cultivation 

 narrowly pyramidal, with ascending branches, and very pendulous branchlets, the 

 bark being divided into long narrow scaly ridges. 



Branchlet systems long and pendulous, alternate, distichous, two- to three-pinnate, 

 with the pinnae disposed more or less in one plane. Ultimate branchlets compressed, 

 tetragonal, ^ in. wide (not inclusive of the spreading leaves). Leaves glaucous 

 blue, the lateral pair conduplicate, ridged on the back, the facial pair flattened with 

 a longitudinal furrow, all four ranks about \ in. long, decurrent in their basal half, with 

 lanceolate acuminate spreading apices, tipped with a fine cartilaginous point. Older 

 branchlets reddish brown, bare of leaves in the third or fourth year. 



Cones, when young, greenish yellow, with a glaucous bloom confined to the 

 prominent spreading umbos ; ripening in the second year, when they become dark 

 brown, almost blackish, ellipsoidal, nearly \ in. in diameter when closed ; scales ten, 



1 Experiments were made at Dehra Dun, with sleepers of various timbers, put down in J 88 1 and taken up in 1892, 

 and the cypress wood was found to have resisted best of all. Cf. Ind. Forest, xix. 207. 



2 We are unaware of the reason why this species is ascribed to Royle, as no mention of it can be found in his published 

 writings. 



3 Griffith's description is as follows : " Arbor parva elegantissima cortici laevi. Ramulis pendulis foliis senioribus 

 ferrugineo-brunneis, junioribus glaucis. Dewangiri near the faqueer's house." This locality is in Bhutan, and specimens 

 labelled No. 27 are preserved at Kew and Cambridge. Mr. J. Claude White in Sikkim and Bhutan (London, 1909), speaks 

 of an immense weeping cypress which he saw at Chalimaphe, and which measured 50 ft. in girth. He also speaks of fine 

 forests of cypress at 8000 to 9000 ft. in Bhutan. I supposed that these might be the same as Griffith's tree ; but am informed 

 by Mr. W. C. Smith, curator of the Herbarium at Calcutta, that he can find no specimens of cypress in Mr. White's collection, 

 and suspects that the tree in question may be a juniper. (H. J. E.) 



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