264 VARIETIES OF CRYPTOMERIA JAPONICA. 



spirally crowded stamens expanded at their apex into a broadly cordate 

 connective from which depend three five anther "cells. Strobiles globose, 

 solitary at the end of the branchlets or in pairs ; scales obovate-cimeate, 

 thickened at the extremity and more or less divided into sharply pointed 

 lobes. Seeds three five on each scale. 



Cryptomeria japonica, Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. loc. cit. supra. Siebold and 

 Zuccarini, Fl. Jap. II. 41, tt. 124, 125. Carriere, Traite Conif. ed. II. 191. 

 Gordon in Journ. Hort. Soc. Lond. I. 57, with tig; and Pinet. ed. II. 73. Beissner, 

 Nadelholzk. 141, with fig. Masters in Journ. Linn. Soc. XVIII. 497; and Jouni. 

 R. Hort. Soc. XIV. 203. And others. 



Eng. Japanese Cedar. Fr. Cryptomeria du Japon. Germ. Japanische Cryptomerie. 

 Ital. Cedro giapponese. Jap. Sugi. 



var. araucarioides. 



A shrub or low tree not exceeding 5 7 feet high with deflexed 

 branches and pendulous branchlets that are more distantly placed than in 

 the common form. Leaves shorter, thicker and more closely imbricated. 

 C. japonica araucarioides, Siebold and Zuccarini, Fl. Jap. II. 52. 



var. elegans. 



A smaller tree than the common form, with a robust trunk, short 

 horizontal branches and branchlets decurved at the tip. Leaves 

 primordial, linear, acuminate, decurrent, spreading or falcately curved and 

 marked 011 both sides with a shallow median groove, bright green when 

 first expanded changing to bronzy crimson towards the end of autumn. 



C. japonica elegans, Masters in Journ. Linn. Soc. XVIII. 498. Beissner, 

 Nadelholzk. 144, with fig. C. elegans, Carriere, Traite Conif. ed. II. 196. Gordon, 

 Pinet. ed. II. 73. 



var. Lobbii. 



A tall tree with an elongated spire-like outline and with a more 



compact habit than the type; branches shorter and more densely ramified; 



leaves longer, more closely appressed to the stems and of a darker green. 



C. japonica Lobbii, Carriere, Traite Conif. ed. II. 192. Gordon, Pinet. ed. II. 76. 

 C. Lobbii, Hort. 



var. nana. 



A dwarf, dense, spreading shrub rarely exceeding a yard in height with 

 much shortened, rigid branchlets clothed with close-set acicular spreading 

 leaves about one-third the length of those of the type. 



C. japonica nana, Siebold and Zuccarini, Fl. Jap. II. 52. Carriere, Traite Conif. 

 ed. II. 193. 



var. sinensis. 



Differs from the Japanese type in its more diffuse habit, deflexed 

 branchlets, longer and more slender terminal growths, and its longer and 

 more slender leaves. 



C. japonica sinensis, Siebold and Zuccarini, Fl. Jap. II. 52. C. japonica For- 

 tunei, Hort. 



var. spiralis. 



A dwarf, spreading bush with more slender branches and branchlets 

 to which the incurved leaves are so closely appressed as to simulate 

 a spiral thread wound round them. 



C. japonica spiralis-, Siebold and Zuccarini, Fl. Jap. II. 72. Gordon, Pinet. 

 ed. II. 423. 



