234 CUPRESSUS TORULOSA. 



the- apex ; strobiles larger, often of oval shape with the umbo of the 

 scales less or not at all developed.* 



C. torulosa Corneyana, Carriere, Traite Conif. ed. II. 151. Kent in Veitch's 

 Manual, ed. I. 239. Masters in Joum. Linn. Soc. XXXI. 336. C. Corneyana, 

 Parlatore, D. C. Prodr. XVI. 470. 



var . kashmiriana. 



Branchlets very slender, elongated and pendulous; branchlet systems more 

 slender in. all their parts and the ramifications more distinctly 

 tetragonous. Leaves as in the type but all free at the acute tip. 



C. torulosa kashmiriana, supra. C. cashmeriana, Royle ex Carriere, Traite Conif. 

 ed. II. 161. 



Cupressus torulosa was first discovered by Dr. Buchanan-Hamilton 

 during his journey through Nepal in 1802 1803, and from his 

 specimens it was described by David Don in the " Prodromus Elorse 

 Nepalensis," published in 1825. Seeds were first sent to England 

 in 1824 by Dr. Wallich, and consignments of them have reached this 

 country from time to time ever since. According to Sir Dietrich 

 Brandis, C. torulosa is found only on the outer Himalayan range 

 from Nepal to Chamba at about 75 east longitude, mostly, but not 

 always on dry slopes, more local and much less common than other 

 Himalayan Conifers ; its vertical range is from 3,500 to 8,000 feet. 

 The wood is white tinged with red or yellow, deeper in the centre > 

 even grained, easy to work but not strong ; it is occasionally used 

 for joinery and indoor fittings.^ 



On Cheena, in Kumaon, at an altitude of upwards of 8,000 feet 

 and where the rainfall exceeds 150 inches annually, Cupressus torulosa 

 is a strikingly handsome tree attaining a height of 150 feet with a 

 trunk 15 feet in circumference near the ground, and muc^ resembling in 

 habit the Japanese species C. obtusa and C. pisifera. In the cemetery 

 near the foot of the mountain are preserved many superb specimens 

 which once formed a part of the forest that covered the district. J 



The Himalayan Cypress cannot be called a satisfactory tree for 

 arboricultural purposes in this country, for although it is sufficiently 

 hardy to withstand average winters, it succumbs to exceptionally severe 

 ones so that very few trees more than twenty years old are now to 

 be seen in Great Britain. Those that survive are all of the fastigiate 

 or sub-fastigiate form of which there are beautiful specimens at Bicton 

 and Killerton in Devonshire, Tortworth Court in Gloucestershire, and 

 other places in the south-west of England. 



The variety Corneyana was in cultivation prior to 1850 by 

 Messrs. Knight and Perry of the Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea, who 

 supposed it to be a native of Japan or North China which has not 

 been verified. The variety kashmiricina, a very beautiful one, is in 

 cultivation in the Temperate House at Kew and a few other places. 



* Communicated from the Royal Gardens at Kew, and the Marchese Hanbury's garden 

 at La Mortola. 



t Forest Flora of North -west India, p. 534. 



Maries in the Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, Vol. XXII. p. 462. 



