JUNIPEKUS CHINENSIS. 169 



J uniperus chinensis. 



A dioecious tree of elongated conical or columnar outline attaining 

 in China and Japan a height of 60 70 feet, but much less at 

 high altitudes where it is reduced to a low tree or dense shrub. In 

 Great Britain usually a slender medium-sized tree of columnar but 

 occasionally pyramidal outline. Primary branches of male trees short, 

 vstoutish, close-set, spreading or ascending and much ramified ; of female 

 trees longer, more slender, spreading and less densely ramified. 

 Branchlets with dark chestnut-brown bark that is paler on the younger 

 growths ; ramification mostly tetrastichous, that of the herbaceous shoots 

 pinnate and very slender. Leaves dimorphic ; on young plants and on 

 the sterile braiichlets of older ones, in whorls of three, subulate, pungent, 

 s] reading, 0'25 0'5 inch long; concave, greyish white with green 

 median and marginal lines on the ventral side ; convex, wholly green 

 and sometimes with a narrow gland on the dorsal side ; in the fertile 

 branches and youngest shoots in decussate pairs, scale-like, ovate, obtuse, 

 concrescent or closely imbricated, bright green. Staminate flowers 

 very numerous, fusiform-cylindric, composed of eight twelve stamens, 

 light yellow. Fruits somewhat variable in form arid size, spherical 

 or top-shaped, 0'25 -0*4 inch in diameter, blackish blue with a 

 glaucous bloom when mature. 



Juniperns chinensis, Linnteus, Mantissa, 127 (1771). Siebold and Zuccarini, Fl. 

 Jap. H. 58, tt. 126, 127. London, Arb. et Frut. Brit. IV. 2505, with figs. 

 Forbes, Pinet. Woburn, 208, t. 65. Endlicher, Synops. Conif. 20. Carriere, Traite 

 Conif.. ed. II. 29. Parlatore, D. C. Prodr. 487 (excl. Indian habitat). Gordon, 

 Pinet. ed. II. 158. Beissner, Nadelholzk. 118, with tigs. Masters in Journ. R. 

 Hort. Soc. XIV. 221. 



J. flagellifonnis, Hort. J. neaborensis, Hort. 



Eng. Chinese Juniper. Fr. Genevrier de Chine. Germ. Chinesischer Sadebaum. 

 Ital. Ginepro Chinese. 



var. albo variegata. 



Of dwarfer, denser habit than the common form and mostly with 

 acicular foliage that is more glaucous and with many of the branchlets 

 and terminal shoots cream-white. 



J. chinensis albo-variegata, Hort. J. chinensis variegata, Gordon, Pinet. ed. II. 159. 

 J. chinensis procumbens albo-variegata, Hort. J. japonica albo-variegata, Hort. 



var. aurea. 



This has the whole of the current year's growth suffused with golden 



yellow which is heightened by full exposure to the sun and which 



.gradually changes to the normal green colour in the following season. 

 J. chinensis aurea, Hort. 



var.- procumbens. 



A dwarf shrub with robust spreading often procumbent elongated 

 branches and short branchlets. Leaves on young plants acicular, marked 

 with two silvery lines above and bright green beneath; in old plants and 

 in the variegated forms scale-like in decussate pairs. procumbens 

 aurea has the growth of the current season tinged with golden yellow 

 which changes to light green in the following year. procumbens 

 aureo- Variegata has many of the branchlets and terminal growths 

 deep golden yellow. 



