Cupressus."] CXLIV. CONIFERS. (J. D. Hooker.) 645 



Leaves distichous, flat ; scales of small reflexecl cone persistent 11. TSUOA. 

 Leaves more or less distichous, linear ; scales of large erect 



cone deciduous 12. ABIES. 



Leaves deciduous in bundles of many, acicular ; scales of erect 



cones persistent 13. LARIX. 



1. CUPRESSUS, Linn. 



Evergreen, monoecious trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, small and 

 scale-like, very rarely subulate, densely appressedly imbricate and decurrent. 

 Male ft. a subsessile terminal column of decussately opposite 2-6-celled 

 peltate anthers. Fern. fl. a globose or shortly oblong cone of 3-6 series 

 of opposite peltate at length woody scales, with 4-6 erect ovules at the 

 base of the 2nd and 3rd series. Seeds small, winged; testa coriaceous or 

 hardened ; cotyledons 2-4. Species about 12, S.E. Europe, Temp. Asia 

 and America. 



C. glauca, LamJc. Encycl. ii. 243 (DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 470; Brand. For. Fl. 

 534 ; Date, $ Gibs. Bomb^Fl. Suppl. 83. C. lusitanica, Mill. Gard. Diet. ; Willd. 

 Sp. PL iv. 511), commonly known as the Goa Cypress, ,is extensively cultivated in 

 the Western Ghats, and tbence introduced into Portugal. It is doubtful whether 

 it is referable to C. torulosa or C. sempervirens. The Yu nan Liboeedrus macrolepis, 

 Benth. (Gen. PI. iii. 426) (Calocedrus macrolepis, .Kurz in Trimen Journ. Bot. 

 (1873) 196, t. 133), with elongate cylindric cones and flattened branches, may be 

 expected to be found in the mountains of N. W. Burma. 



1. C. torulosa, Don Prodr. 55; crown broadly pyramidal, branches 

 spreading tips pendulous, leaves triangular-ovate obtuse, cones sessile 

 erect ^ in. diam. bluish, scales rugose, seeds narrowly winged. Endl. 

 Conif. 5S; Parlat.in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 469; Wall. Cat. 6046; Brand. 

 For. Fl. 533 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 410 ; Griff'. Itin. Notes 240 ; Ic. PI. 

 Asiat. t. 372. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; from Nepal to Chamba, alt. 5500-8000 ft., on dry 

 slopes. 



A tree, attaining 150 ft., and girth of trunk 17 ft. ; branches with the leaves 

 on terete or obscurely 4-angled. Leaves -^ in, long, with an oblong gland on either 

 side of the midrib. Anthers 3-4. Scales of cone 8-10, umbonate, 4-6-ovuled. 

 Seeds nearly orbicular, nucleus convex on both sides, not angled. Though described 

 as with spreading branches in a wild state, all the specimens cultivated at Kevv are 

 fastigiate. 



C. SEMPERVIRENS, Linn,, Sp. PI. 1002; crown (in India-grown speci- 

 mens) narrowly cylindrical, branches and their tips erect, leaves ovate- 

 oblong, cones scattered peduncled 1 in. diam. globose or oblong, scales 

 tubercled, seeds angled and narrowly winged. Gfsrtn. Fruct. ii. t. 91; 

 Richard Conif. t. 9 ; Brand. For. Fl. 533 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 411 ; 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 705. C. Eoylei, Garr. mss. C. sempervirens, var. in- 

 dica, Parlat. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 468. C. pyramid alis, Targ. Obs. Dec. 

 iii. v. 53. C. fastigiata, DC. Fl. Franc, v. 336. C. horizootaiis, Mill, & 

 fastigiata, DC., Endl. Conif. 56, 57. C. Whitleyana, Carr. Conif. 128 ; 

 Gord. Pinet. 72, Suppl. 27. C. Doniana, Hort. 



NORTH-WEST INDIA ; planted only. DISTRIB. The horizontally branched var. 

 is wild in N. Persia, Syria and Asia Minor; the fastigiate is only known in 

 cultivation. 



A tall tree, attaining 100 ft., and 9 ft. girth of trunk ; branches with the leaves 

 4-angled. Leaves ovate-oblong, convex with a gland on eithc" side. Anthers about 4. 



