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landscape."* The geographical distribution of Cupressus funebris is but 

 imperfectly known ; the recorded habitats are few, but there are 

 indications of its having an extensive range in the south-west provinces 

 whence it lias been introduced and planted around temples in Nepal, 

 Sikkim and Bhotan. In the Himalayan valleys up to 6,000 feet it 

 attains a large size ; one tree measured by Sir Joseph Hooker had a 

 girth of 16 feet at five feet from the ground and was apparently 

 90 feet high.f 



The expectation that Cupressus funebri* would prove as hardy as the 

 Cryptomeria and the Indian Deodar has not been realised. The 

 occasional recurrence of exceptionally severe winters has proved fatal to 

 it over the greater part of Great Britain. In Devon and Cornwall and 

 in parts of Wales and Ireland where this extreme severity is rarely or 

 ever felt there are specimens from 25 to 30 feet high but they are all 

 of the fastigiate or columnar form, and only in a few instances as at 

 Killerton in Devonshire and at Powerscourt in AVicklow do the oldest 

 trees show signs of assuming the pendulous habit which characterises the 

 species in China and India. 



Cupressus Goveniana. 



"A tree occasionally 50 feet high with a short trunk 2 feet in 

 diameter and slender, erect or spreading branches ; usually much 

 smaller, often shrubby in habit." Outer bark dark brown, fissured 

 and peeling oft' in shreds exposing a chocolate-red inner cortex. 

 Branches spreading or ascending, covered with smooth red-brown 

 bark and much ramified towards the extremities. Branchlets 

 slender, numerous and close-set, tetrastichous on the axial growths 

 and densely ramified in the same manner. Leaves on the axial 

 shoots ovate, acute, closely appressed or concrescent at the base, 

 free at the apex ; on the slender lateral shoots much smaller, scale- 

 like, concrescent or imbricated, all of a bright shade of green peculiar 

 to this species. Staminate flowers usually with six stamens, four-angled, 

 light yellow. Strobiles often in dense clusters, shortly pedunculate, 

 globose, 075 1 inch in diameter, composed of four decussate pairs 

 of dark brown scales each with a short pyramidal umbo and bearing 

 from twelve to eighteen seeds. 



Cupressus Goveniana, Gordon in Journ. Hort. Soc. Loud. IV. 295, with fig. 

 (1849); and Pinet. ed. II. 83. Carriere, Traite Conif. ed. II. 170. Parlatore, 

 D. C. Prodr. XVI. 472. Brewer and Watson, Bot. Califor. II. 114. Masters 

 in Journ. R. Hort. Soc. XIV. 205 ; and Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXI. 346, with fig. 

 Sargent, Silva N. Anier. X. 107, t. 527. 



Cuprcsms Govemana was discovered by Theoclor Hartweg in the 

 neighbourhood of Monterey in 1846 associated with Piims muricata, 

 while collecting plants and seeds for the Horticultural Society of 

 London ; it was subsequently distributed from the Society's gardens 

 at Chiswick. Its geographical range is confined chiefly to the 

 California!! coast region from the plains of Mendocino to the mountains 



* Gardeners' Chronicle, 1850, p. 228. t Himalayan Journals, Vol. I. p. 336. 



