68 CEPHALOTAXUS, OR 



elevation of 2000 feet, and in the north of China, in the pro- 

 vince of Yang-Sin. The Japanese name is " Kaja." 

 It is quite hardy. 



No. 2. Cephalotaxus Fortunei, Hooker, Fortune's Cephalo- 

 taxus, 



Syn. Cephalotaxus filiformis, Knight. 

 Fortunei pendula, Carriere. 



mas, Hort. 



Leaves on the lateral branches and branchlets strictly ar- 

 ranged in two rows ; they are long, linear-lanceolate, regularly 

 tapering to an acute point, quite straight, smooth, flat, mostly 

 opposite, but sometimes slightly alternate, somewhat distant 

 apart, and nearly sessile, or on very short, more or less twisted 

 foot-stalks ; those on the principal branches and on the young- 

 plants are mostly scattered alternately and much the longest, 

 of a deep glossy green, with a narrow, acute rib along the 

 middle on the upper surface, and of a glaucous white below, 

 except the mid-rib and margins, which are of a bright glossy 

 green colour. Branches in horizontal whorls round the stem, 

 long, slender, spreading, and rather pendent towards the ends ; 

 lateral ones and branchlets arranged laterally in two rows, fre- 

 quently in opposite pairs, but sometimes irregularly and dis- 

 tantly scattered, very slender, long, and more or less filiform. 

 Buds very small, and covered with persistent, long, acute, 

 glossy, imbricated scales, extended at the points, and which 

 remain at the base of each successive growth for some years 

 afterwards in a withered state. Male flowers in globular heads, 

 axiliary, and on short foot-stalks. Fruit drupaceous, regu- 

 larly elliptic, tapering to both ends, and frequently furnished 

 with a small point on the apex, from one inch to one and a 

 quarter long, and nearly three-quarters of an inch broad. Seeds 

 solitary in each fruit, and covered with a hard, bony shell, 

 rather thin and brittle, and enveloped in a thin fleshy sub- 

 stance, and purplish skin when ripe. 



A fine evergreen tree, growing from 40 to 60 feet high, with 



