1 1 62 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



with a central depression and an acute triangular reflexed process. Seeds about ten 

 on each scale, reddish or pale brown, to % in., with narrow wings and scattered 

 resin-vesicles. 



This species, judging from the cones, which resemble those of C. (orulosa, is 

 possibly a form of that species with juvenile acicular foliage. A solitary example was 

 seen in cultivation in Bhutan by Griffith. Hooker, who apparently did not dis- 

 tinguish this species from C. funebris, collected two specimens from cultivated trees 

 in Sikkim. Carriere states that it was introduced into Europe from Tibet about 1862. 



The only specimen which we know of in this country is the beautiful tree in the 

 Temperate House at Kew, which is now about 30 ft. high, having recently been 

 topped, as its summit had reached the roof. 1 It bears fruit abundantly, but no seed 

 has been sown, and we do not know whether seedlings, if produced, would preserve 

 the character of the parent tree. Messrs. Veitch tell us that it has not proved 

 sufficiently hardy to be kept out of doors at Coombe Wood, and they have no plants 

 at present. There is, however, a small tree doing well in the open air at Rostrevor 

 House, near Newry. (A. H.) 



In Italy the finest specimen is growing in front of the villa on the Isola Madre 

 in Lake Maggiore. 2 This is one of the most beautiful conifers that I have seen any- 

 where, and measured in November 1906, 60 ft. high by 6 ft. in girth, and covered 

 an area 35 paces in circumference. It bore fruit near the top of the tree. Seedlings 

 of this lovely species can be had from the nursery of Rovelli Freres at Pallanza. 



(H. J. E.) 



CUPRESSUS FUNEBRIS, Chinese Weeping Cypress 



Cupressus /unebris, Endlicher, Syn. Com/. 58 (1847); Planchon, in Flore des Serres, vi. 90 (1850); 



Lindley, in Paxton, Fl. Gard. i. 47 (1850); Hooker, Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 646 (1888); Masters 



vajourn. Linn. Soc. (Hot.) xxxi. 337 (1896), and xxvi. 540(1902); Franchet, in Journ. de Bot. 



xiii. 263 (1899) ; Kent, Veitch's Man. Com/. 203 (1900) ; Diels, Flora von Central-China, 219 



(1901); Brandis, Indian Trees, 694 (1906). 

 Cupressus pendula, Staunton, 3 Embassy to China 0/ Earl Macartney, ii. 525, pi. 41 (1798) (not 



Thunberg 4 ) ; Lambert, Genus Pinus, ii. 124, t. 66 (1832) ; Loudon, Arb. et Frut. Brit. iv. 2479 



(1838); Griffith, Itin. Notes, 131, 143 (1848). 

 Cupressus amcena, Koch, in Monatssch. Garten- u. P/lanzekunde, i. no (1873), and Dendrologie, ii. 



pt 2, p. 164 (1873). 



A tree, attaining in China 70 ft. in height and 2 ft. in diameter. Bark brown, 

 smooth. Branches ascending and horizontal, ending in long pendulous reddish 



1 This tree was presented to Kew in 1894 by Mrs. Forster, Homewood, Chislehurst, who informs us that she had 

 received it from the Rev. F. Murray, formerly Rector of Chislehurst. Its origin is unknown. 

 a Cf. Beissner in Mitt. deut. dend. Ges. 1906, p. 98. 



* Staunton's specimen, on which Lambert founded his description of this species, is preserved in the British Museum. 

 It is identical with specimens collected by Fortune and by myself in China, and was collected near Lake Sihoo in Chekiang. 

 The plate represents a view of the lake with a very pendulous cypress in the foreground, much more weeping in habit than 

 any trees we have seen. 



Cupressus pendula, Thunberg, Fl. fap. 265 (1784), is Thuya orientalis, L., var. pendula, Masters. 



