66 CEPHALOTAXUS, OR 



It is found on Mount Lebanon, and probably over the whole 

 of that group of mountains which is situate between Damas- 

 cus and Tripoli, in Syria, and which includes the Libanus and 

 Mounts Amanus and Taurus, of antiquity. 



There are the following varieties : 



Cedrus Libani argentea, Loudon. 



Syn. Ceclrus Libani glauca, Hort. 



This beautiful variety has the leaves of a silvery or glaucous 

 hue on both sides, and contrast well with the more common 

 form with green foliage. 



Cedrus Libani nana, Loudon. 



A very dwarf variety, seldom growing more than two or 

 three feet high, with very short shoots and smaller leaves than 

 the species. 



Cedrus Libani pendula, Knight. 

 This variety has slenderer and somewhat pendulous branches. 



Gen. CEPHALOTAXUS. Siebold. The Cluster- 

 flowered Yews. 



Flowers, dioecious, or male and female on different plants, 

 pedunculate, and in globular heads. 



Fruit, drupaceous, or like the common plum, fleshy outside, 

 and two or three in a head. 



Seeds, solitary, nut-like, with a bony or woody shell, and en- 

 closed in the fleshy disk. 



Leaves, one-nerved, linear, alternate, and in two rows. 



Seed-leaves, in twos. 



Name, derived from " Kephale," a head, and " taxis," ar- 

 rangement, flowers and fruit growing in close globular heads. 



All evergreen trees, found in China and Japan. 



