646 CXLIV. CONIFERS. (J. D. Hooker.) [Cupressuz. 



Scales of cone 3-14, usually "with a short h'orn or boss. Seeds ovoid or oblon<r, nu- 

 cleus angle d. Parlatore separates the Indian form as a variety with globose cone;-, 

 and uinbonate scales tnucronate at the tip. 



C. FUNEBB.IS, Endl. Conif. 58 ; crown very broadly pyramidal, 

 branches horizontal branchlets pendulous distichous compressed, leaves 

 ovate acute, cones small ^-^ in. diam., scales rdgulose, seeds angle'd and 

 broadly winged. Parlat. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 471 ; Brand. For. Fl. 534 ; 

 Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 410 ; Flore des Serres vi. 90 with fig. C. pendula, 

 Staunton, Embass. to China ii. 525, t. 41 ; Griff. Itin. Notes 131, 143, 

 No. 679 a ; Lamb. Pin. Ed. 2, 124, t. 66. 



Planted near Buddhist temples in N.EPAL, SIKKIM and BHOTAN, alt. 4-8000 ft. 

 DISTKIB. Wild in China. 



A very handsome tree, attaining 60 ft., remarkable for its wide-spreading branches, 

 and pendulous distichous branchlets. C. pendula is the first name given to this 

 species, but it was preoccupied for Thuja pendula, Lamb., the Biota pendula, 

 Endl., which genera are now reduced to Cupressun. 



2. JUNXPERUS, Linn. 



Characters of Cupressus, but leaves more often subulate and 3-nately 

 whorled, scales of cone fleshy and coherent or connate in fruit, and seed* 

 with a thick hard testa and often connate into a bard several-celled mass. 

 Species about 25 ; temperate and cold regions of the N. Hemisphere. 



1. J. communis, Linn. Sp. PL 1040; shrubby erect or decumbent, 

 leaves -f in. all oblong-lanceolate or subulate pungent base narrowed 

 flat or concave above convex or keeled beneath, fruit subglqbose about 

 3-seeded. Endl. Conif. 15 ; Parlat. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 479 ; Wall. Cat. 

 6044; Brand. For. Fl. 535; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 411; Boiss. FL 

 Orient, v. 707; Richard: Conif. 33, t. 5; Reichb. Ic. FL Germ. t. 535, 

 J. nana, Willd. Sp. PL iv. 854. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA, from Kumaon .westward, alt. 5500 to 14,000 ft. DISTRIB. 

 Temperate and Subarctic Europe, Asia, N. Africa, and N. America. 



A bush in the Himalaya, rarely 6-7 ft., prostrate at high elevations with broader 

 leaves ; foliage grey green. Leaves crowded. Fruit - in. diam., blue black, 

 glaucous, with scarious empty scales at the base. The common Juniper. 



2. J. pseudo-sabina, Fisch. fy Hey. Ind. Sem. Sort. Petrop. 

 Animad. 65 ; a robust shrub or tree, leaves dimorphous, those on the lower 

 branches linear pungent, those on the terminal branchlets 4-fariou9 closely 

 imbricate appressed, fruit erect ovoid ^ f in., endocarp very thick bony 

 1-seeded, seed slender. Endl. Conif. 21; Parlat. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 

 482; Ledeb. FL Ross. iii. 682. J. excelsa, Wall Cat. 6041 (not of Bieb.). 

 J. Wallichiana, Hook. f. 8f Thorns. Herb. Kew; Brand. For. FL 537; 

 Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 412. J. sabiua F Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. 8f T. 

 J. indica, Bertoloni MiscelL xxiii. 16, t. 1. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, from Kashmir to Bhutan, and WESTERN TIBET, alt. 

 9-15,000 ft. DISTRIB. Siberia, Soongaria. 



A bush in the N.W. Himalaya; a tree, 60 ft., in Sikkim, with stout trunk and 

 black thick ramification and foliage. Largest leaves $ in., rather spreading, the 

 smaller T \, in., rhombic ovate, closely imbricate, tips free, back obtusely keeled. 



