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troduced by the Dutch into Java early in the nineteenth century and is said to 

 have been first introduced into Europe by the overland route through Siberia to 

 Petrograd. In 1842 seeds were sent from the Chusan Islands to Kew by Sir 

 Everard Home and plants were raised from them. In 1844 Robert Fortune in- 

 troduced the tree in quantity to England through seeds sent from Shanghai to the 

 Royal Horticultural Society. This form from China is known in gardens as var. 

 Fortunei Hort. (syn. C. Fortunei Hooibrenk in Wien. Jour. Pflanzenk. 1853, 22) 

 or var. sinensis Sieb. (apud Miquel in Siebold & Zuccarini, Fl. Jap. II. 52 [1870]) 

 and is less satisfactory in cultivation than the Japanese type. The latter, com- 

 monly known in gardens as var. Lobbii Carr., was sent to the Buitenzorg Botanic 

 Garden, Java, by von Siebold during his residence in Japan and from Buitenzorg 

 Thomas Lobb sent it to Messrs. Veitch about 1845-46, and the finest Cryptomeria 

 trees in cultivation are of this form. 



As already mentioned a number of varieties and forms of Cryptomeria have 

 originated in Japan; the most distinct of these is the var. elegans Mast, (in Jour. 

 Linn. Soc. XVIII. 497 [1881]), which was introduced into England by John Gould 

 Veitch in 1861 and into this country by Dr. George R. Hall in 1862. This vari- 

 ety has linear, acuminate, spreading or falcately curved leaves and short, thin 

 horizontal branches and branchlets decurved at the tip. When young the foliage 

 is bright green, but in the autumn and winter it changes to bronzy red and the 

 trees are then singularly handsome. I saw many of these plants in Japan and in 

 parts of Kyushu it is used as a hedge plant, but I could learn nothing of its origin. 

 Siebold says it came from China, but this I consider very doubtful. It was sent 

 from Japan to Buitenzorg by von Siebold sometime between 1826 and 1830. 

 There is in cultivation a dwarf form known as elegans nana Hort. There are also 

 in gardens dwarf, pendulous, white and yellow variegated and otherwise abnormal 

 forms of the typical C. japonica, including one (var. araucarioides Hort. apud 

 Carriere, Traite Conif. ed. 2, 193 [1867]) with long, pendulous, very remote branch- 

 lets and deflexed branches. 



Subfam. CUPRESSEAE Lindl. 



THUJOPSIS S. & Z. 



Thujopsis dolabrata Siebold & Zuccarini, Fl. Jap. II. 34, 1. 119, 120 (1842). 

 Lindley in Gard. Chron. 1855, 241, fig. J. G. Veitch in Gard. Chron. 1862, 309. 

 Franchet & Savatier, Enum. PI. Jap. I. 469 (1875). Veitch, Man. Conif. 265, 

 t. (1881). Sargent, Forest Fl. Jap. 72 (1894). Shirasawa, Icon. Ess. For. Jap. 

 I. 27. t. 11, fig. 1-17 (1900). Matsumura, Ind. PI. Jap. II. pt. 2, 19 (1905). 

 Miyoshi, Atlas Jap. Veget.pt. V. 4, t. 37 (1906). Elwes & Henry, Trees Gr. Brit. 

 & Irel. II. 202 (1907). Beissner, Handb. Nadelh. ed. 2, 486, fig. 119, 120 (1909). 



Thuja dolabrata Linnaeus f., Suppl. 420 (1781). Thunberg, Fl. Jap. 266 (1784). 



D. Don in Lambert, Descr. Pinus, II. append. 2, t. 1 (1824). Masters in Jour. 



Linn. Soc. XVIII. 486 (1881); in Gard. Chron. n. ser. XVIII. 556, fig. 95 (1882). 



Kent in Veitch, Man. Conif. ed. 2, 236, t. (1900). 

 Dolophyllum sp. Salisbury in Jour. Sci. & Arts, II. 313 (1817). 

 Platycladus dolabrata, Spach, Hist. Veg. XL 337 (1842). 

 Libocedrus Dolabrata Nelson, Pinac. 65 (1866). 

 Thujopsis dolabrata, var. australis Henry in Elwes & Henry, Trees Gr. Brit. & Irel. 



II. 202 (1907). 



