186 JUNIPERUS RECURVA. 



J. recurva var. squamata, Parlatore, D. C. Prodr. XVI. 482. Hooker fil, Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. V. 647. J. squamata, Hamilton in Lambert's Pinus, ed. I. Vol. II. 

 17. Carriers, Traite Conif. ed. II. 28. Gordon, Pinet. ed. II. 152. J. religiosa, 

 Royle, Illus. Him. Plants, I. 351 (name only). J. densa, Gordon, Pinet. ed. II. 141. 



Juniperus recurva first became known to science through Dr. 

 Hamilton who discovered it during his journey through Nepal in 

 18021803. Specimens were communicated by him to Mr. Aylmer 



Fig. 57. Juniperus recurva. 

 (From the Gardeners' Chronicle.) 



Lambert in whose herbarium they remained many years undescribed. 

 The species is distributed over the temperate and alpine Himalaya 

 from 7,500 to 15,000 feet elevation from Bhotan to Afghanistan. 

 Throughout this region it varies much in habit and dimensions; as seen 

 by Sir J. D. Hooker in the Lachin valley in Sikkim, it is a tree 

 30 feet high with spreading branches and pendulous branchlets ; * at 

 and near its highest limit, it takes the form described above as, 



* Himalayan Journals, II. 45. 



