Jumperus."] CXLTV. CONIFERS. ( J. D. Hooker.) 647 



Fruit black or blue shining, not glaucous. Brandis points out that this differs from 

 the description of the Siberian plant in the fruit not being recurved. Bertoloni's 

 figure of J. indica is a very poor one, but I think it is of this species. I have seen 

 no specimens of the Siberian and Soongarian plants. 



3. J. recurva, Ham. in Don Prodr. 55; a glaucous blue prostrate or 

 erect bush or small tree with fastigiate branches, which are decurved 

 and ascending with pendulous branchlets in large plants, leaves subulate 

 imbricate appi'essed, back convex, fruit ^ | in. ovoid. JEndl. Conif. 18 ; 

 Parlat. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 481; Griff. Notul. iv. 26 ; Ic. Plant. Asiat. 

 t. 373, 374 ; Wall. Cat. 6042 ; Brand. For. FL 536 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 

 412 ; Boiss. Fl Orient, v. 708. J. squamosa, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 6043. 



TEMPERATE and ALPINE HIMALAYA, alt. 7500-15,000 ft. DISTRIB. Aff- 

 ghanistan . 



As a tree attains 30 ft., with a straight trunk, conical crown and pendulous 

 branchlets ; at higher elevations it becomes stunted, and in alpine or exposed situations 

 passes into 



VAR. squamata, Parlat. in DC. I. c. 482; a decumbent or prostrate bush, leaves 

 broader often incurved. J. squamata, Sam. in Lamb. Pin. Ed. i. ii. 17; Don 

 Prodr. 55 ; JZndl. Conif. 18. J. densa, G-ord. Pinet. Suppl. 32. J. Lambertiami 

 & rigida, Wall. mss. j. religiosa, Eoyle III. 350 (name only). 



4. J. macropoda, Boiss. FL Orient, v. 709 ; a small tree, branchlets 

 subdistichous slender, leaves dimorphic, of the lower branches subulate 

 pungent, of the upper and branchlets scale-like imbricate closely appressed 

 ovate acute with a dorsal large gland, male catkins on a scaly peduncle, 

 fruit subglobose ^ in. diam. black glaucous 2-5-seeded, tips of the scales 

 forming transverse crests. J. excelsa, Brand. For. Fl. 538, t. 68, and Wall. 

 Cat. 6041 (not of Bieb.) ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 412. J. gossainthaneana, 

 Loddig. Cat. 1836, 48 ; Loud. Fncycl. 1090. 



Inner drier ranges of the HIMALAYA, from Nepal westward, and WESTERN 

 TIBET, alt. 5-14,OCO ft. DISTRIB. Afghanistan, Beluchistan, Persia, Arabia. 



A tree, attaining 50 ft., with girth of trunk over 33 ft. ; branchlets like those 

 of Gnpressus tosulosa, trunk generally gnarled ; foliage light green. The above 

 notes are from Brandis. Boissier distinguishes this from J. excelsa by the scaly 

 peduncles of the male catkins, and the crest-like tips of the scales of the fruit, and 

 the fewer seeds. I doubt its proving distinct from J. excelsa, Bieb. 



3. CEPIIALOTAXUS, Sieb. fy Zucc. 



Evergreen yew-like dioecious shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, dis- 

 tichous, linear, fiat, often falcate. Male fl. in axillary globose heads of 

 1-fld. scales ; anthers few, subsessile, cells 2-4 deflexed ; connective with an 

 incurved claw. Fern, cone terminal, small, ovoid, sessile or peduncled, 

 surrounded with imbricating bracts ; ovuliferous scale adnate to the bract, 

 2-ovuled ; ovules erect. Seed large, drupe-like, ellipsoid or globose ; testa 

 fleshy without, hard within ; albumen hard, fleshy ; cotyledons 2 Species 

 about 6, Eastern Asia, China and Japan. 



1. C. XKannii, HooJc.f. Ic. PL t. 1523; leaves linear acuminate sub- 

 falcate green beneath. 



KHASIA MTS. ; in the Lankhla Woods, alt. 5000 ft., G. Mann, ClarJce. 

 A small tree. Leaves 2 by |-g- in., shining above, paler beneath, base acute or 

 obtuse, margins recurved when dry ; midrib stout on both surfaces. Male heads 



