CUNNINGHAMIA 



Cunninghamia, R. Brown, in Richard, Coiiif. 80, t 18 (1826); Bentham et Hooker, Gen. Pl.'m. 



435 (1880); Masters, /owrw. Linn. Soc. (Bof.) xxvii. 304, fig. iS (1889), and xxx. 25 (1892). 

 Belis^ Salisbury, Trans. Linn. Soc. viii. 315 (1807). 

 Jacularia, Rafinesque, in Lojudon, Gard. Mag. viii. 247 (1832). 

 Ra.xopitys, Nelson (Senilis), Pinacea, 97 (1866). 



A GENUS, belonging to the Coniferae, with only one known living species,- and 

 doubtfully represented in the fossil state.^ 



Cunninghamia is considered by Bentham and Hooker, and by Masters, to be a 

 member of the family Araucarieae ; but it is placed by Eichler* in Taxodineae. 

 Seward and Ford, who have lately published an exhaustive monograph * of Araucaria 

 and its allied genus Agathis, agree with Eichler that it has no close relationship 

 with those genera. It appears, however, to be a connecting link between the 

 Araucarieae and the Taxodinese ; and mainly differs from Araucaria, some species of 

 which it closely resembles, in foliage, in having three ovules on the bract, and not one 

 only, as in that genus. 



The generic characters are given in the following detailed account of the 

 species : 



CUNNINGHAMIA SINENSIS 



Cunninghamia sinensis, R. Brown, /oc. cit. (1826); Lambert, Genus Finns, ed. 2, t. 53 (1832); 

 Loudon, Arb. et Frut. Brit. iv. 2445 (1838); Murray, Pines and Firs of Japan, 116, figs. 216- 

 224 (1863); Kent, Veitch's Man. Coniferce, 292 (1900); Shirasawa, Icon. Ess. Forest. Japon, 

 text 23, t. 9, fT. 1-24 (1900). 

 Cunninghamia lanceolata, W. J. Hooker, Bot. Mag. t. 2743 (1827). 

 Pinus lanceolata, Lambert, Genus Finns, ed. i, t. 34 (1803). 

 Belis jaculifolia, Salisbury, lac. cit. 316 (1807). 

 Belis lanceolata. Sweet, Hort. Brit. 475 (1830). 







' This name, though the earliest, is not adopted on account of its close resemblance to the genus Bellis, used for the 

 daisies. 



^ While the above was passing through the press, there has been received at Kew a specimen of a new species of 

 Cunninghamia, lately discovered in tlie mountains of Formosa at 7000 feet altitude. This species, which will shortly be 

 published by Mr. Hayata, diflfers from C. sinensis in having shorter leaves, acute and not acuminate at the apex. Mr. 

 Hemsley is inclined to think that a specimen, preserved in the Herbarium, which was collected on Mt. Omei, in Western 

 China, by Faber, is possibly a third distinct species. 



' Engler u. I'rantI, Natur. Pfiaiizenfamil. ii. 85 (1 889). Cunninghamiles, an allied fossil genus, has been found in the 

 Keuper and Chalk deposits in Saxony, Bohemia, Westphalia, Southern France, and Greenland. Cf. Schimper u. Schenck, 

 Palitontologie, 383 (1890). 



' The Araucariett: Phil. Trans. Roy. Sot:., vol. cviii. p. 308 (1906). 



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