JUNIPERUS RECURVA. 185 



The specific name Pseudo-Sabina was first given by Fischer and 

 Meyer to a Juniper gathered by Schrenk in 1840 or 1841 on the Altai 

 Mountains in the Baikal region of southern Siberia. To this Juniper 

 Parlatore referred, and probably rightly, the Himalayan species above 

 described, in which he is followed by Sir J. D. Hooker in the 

 " Flora of British India." The Siberian type was evidently known 

 to the Russian botanists, for Dr. Albert Regel during his exploration 

 of southern Turkestan in 1879 1883 detected it in several localities 

 at high elevations,* thus indicating that the species has an extensive 

 range on the Asiatic continent. Closely allied to and perhaps even 

 identical with /. Pseudo-Sabina is a Juniper figured in the "Flora 

 Rossica" of Pallas published in 1784 under the name of J. davurica, 

 which had been discovered in the same region as Fischer and Meyer's 

 J. Pseudo-Sabina, and which, according to the late Professor Bnnge and 

 other explorers of eastern Siberia, spreads eastwards from Lake Baikal 

 through the Amur region. Loudon states that J. davuriea was 

 introduced into this country in 1791,f but it is extremely doubtful 

 whether it is now to be found either in British or continental gardens. 

 Should the supposed identity of /. davurica and /. Pseudo-Sabina be 

 hereafter confirmed it is evident that the older name of Pallas should 

 l)e accepted for the species. 



Juniperus recurva. 



A small tree with a straight erect trunk, conical head and spreading 

 branches, or an erect bush or prostrate shrub, according to situation and 

 altitude. In Great Britain usually a broadly conical or round-topped large 

 shrub with several erect or ascending stems much branched upwards, and 

 clothed with reddish brown bark that is thrown off in recurved flakes. 

 Branchlets and herbaceous shoots decurved or pendulous. Leaves in 

 whorls of three, becoming effete on the axial growths the third or 

 fourth year, but persisting much longer, subulate acute, imbricated and 

 .appressed, O2 0*5 inch long, convex on the back and pale green ; 

 concave and whitish on the inner side. Flowers mono3cious, rarely 

 dkecious; staminate flowers small, oval-oblong, obtuse, composed of six eight 

 pale yellow stamens. Fruits solitary on the ends of short lateral 

 branchlets of the preceding year, ovoid-oblong, about 0'5 inch long, 

 blackish blue when mature. 



Juniperus recurva, Hamilton ex Don Prodr. Fl. Nep. 55 (1825). Loudon, Arb. et 

 Frut Brit. IV. 2504,. with fig Endlicher, Synops Conif. 18. Carriere, Traite 

 Conif. ed. II. 27. Parlatore, D. C. Prodr XVI. 481. Gordon, Pinet. ed. II. 147. 

 Brandis, Forest Fl. N.W. Ind. 537. Boissier, Fl. orient V. 708. Hooker fil, Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. V. 647. Beissner, Nadelholzk. 104. Masters in Gard. Chron. XIX. (188), 

 p. 468, with fig ; and Journ. R. Hort. Soc. XIV. 214. 



var. squamata. 



A prostrate, spreading, much-branched shrub; secondary branches mostly 

 short and erect with smooth, reddish brown bark ; branchlets numerous, 

 short and somewhat rigid. Leaves subulate, much crowded on the young 

 shoots, more distant on the axial growths, greyish white above, pale 

 green beneath. 



* Gartenflora, XXVI. 339 ; XXVII. 36 ; XXIX. 48. 

 t Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum, IV. 2500. 



