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] ong, slender, drooping branches ; but in this country it does 

 not readily make a leader, and is inclined to be bushy. Mr. 

 Fortune found it in the north of China, particularly in the 

 province of Yang-Sin. 

 It is quite hardy. 



No. 3. Cephalotaxus pedunculata, Siebold, the Long-stalked 



Cephalotaxus. 



Syn. Taxus Harringtonia, Loudon. 

 Inukaja, Knight. 

 Sinensis, Knight. 



Leaves in two rows, mostly opposite and flat on the branch- 

 lets, but somewhat spiral and alternate on the leading shoots 

 and principal branches, linear, a little curved, very closely set 

 on the shoots, thick, leathery, revolute, and without or on very 

 short foot-stalks, from one and a half to two inches and a half 

 long, and one and a half to two lines broad, of a bright glossy 

 green above, and furnished with an elevated straight nerve, 

 and two broad glaucous white bands on the under one, ter- 

 minating in an acute or obtuse spiny point. Branches nume- 

 rous, spreading, and mostly in whorls. Branchlets in two 

 rows, horizontal, and mostly opposite. Buds furnished with 

 persistent imbricated scales. Male flowers collected in globular 

 heads, on peduncules furnished with bracts, each catkin being 

 oval and much shorter than the bracteas, female ones axiliary 

 and disposed in heads on long, somewhat four-cornered fruit- 

 stalks. Fruit, two or three in a close head, drupaceous, or each 

 enclosed in a fleshy covering, like the fruit of the common 

 plum. Seeds solitary in each fruit, erect, and with a smooth 

 bony shell, which is hard and thin. Seed-leaves in twos, short, 

 and rounded at the points. 



A handsome, small evergreen tree, growing from 20 to 25 

 feet high, with numerous spreading branches, mostly in whorls 

 round the stem ; found abundantly in Japan, cultivated in 

 gardens under the name of " Inukaja " (not wild). 



It is quite hardy. 



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