CUPRESSUS LUSITANICA. 



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tetrastichous ramification, the herbaceous (youngest) .shoots, more or less 

 crowded, pinnately divided, recurved or arching, four-angled, bright or 

 glaucous green, in particular trees the glaucescence greatly heightened. 

 Leaves dimorphic; on the axial growths broadly ovate or ovate-oblong, 

 acuminate, appressed, free at the acute tip ; on the lateral shoots 

 scale-like, deltoid-ovate, sub-acute, convex and glandular at the back, 

 imbricated or concrescent. Staminate flowers very numerous, club- 

 shaped, four-angled, light sulphur - yellow and composed of six eight 



Fig. 00. Cupressus lusitamca. 



anther-scales in decussate pairs. Strobiles shortly pedunculate, solitary or 

 in twos and threes at or near the base of two-years-old lateral branchlets, 

 globose or ovoid-globose, 0*5 0*75 inch in diameter ; scales six eight, 

 sub-quadrate, prominently umbonate, very glaucous before maturity.* 



Cupressus lusitanica, Miller, Diet. ed. VIII. (1768). Lambert, Genus Finns, 

 ed. II. Vol. I. t. 65. London, Arb. et Frnt, Brit. IV. 2477, with figs. Forbes, Pinet. 

 Woburn, 187, t. 62. Carriere, Traite Conif. ed. II. 153. Gordon, Pinet. ed. II. 89. 

 Masters in Journ. R. Hort. Soc. XIV. 206 ; and Joura. Linn. Soc. XXXI. 331. 



C. glauca, Lamarck, Encycl. II. 243 (1786 1790). Endlicher, Synops. 

 Conif. 58. Parlatore, D. C. Prodr. XVI. 470. Brandis, Forest Fl. N.W. Ind. 

 534. Hooker fil. Brit. Ind. V. 645. Masters in Gard. Chron. X. ser. 3 (1891), 

 p. 761, with fig. 



Eng. Cedar of Goa. Fr. C<?dre de Goa. 



* Communicated by the late M. Charles Naudin from the Villa Thuret Botanic garden, 

 Antibes, and by Mr. F. W. Moore, Keeper of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin. 



