70 CHAM^ECYPARIS, OR 



No. 4. Cephalotaxus umbraculifera, Siebold, the Shade- 



affording Cephalotaxus. 



Syn. Torreya grandis, Fortune. 

 Cephalotaxus grandis, Hort. 

 Caryotaxus grandis, Hort. 



Leaves in two rows, quite flat, closely placed along the 

 shoots, very rigid, linear-lanceolate, rather short, and somewhat 

 falcate, from three-quarters to an inch long, and one line and 

 a half broad near the base, of a light glossy green above, 

 but much paler below, with two narrow grayish lines, and 

 almost sessile, or on very short spirally twisted foot-stalks, 

 more or less opposite, and furnished with a long acute spiny 

 point at the apex. Branches on the stem in whorls, spread out 

 horizontally and extended. Branchlets arranged in two rows 

 laterally, flat, and spreading. Male flowers in globular heads. 

 Fruit drupaceous, oval pointed, fleshy, green, and about the 

 size of a small walnut. Seeds solitary, egg-shaped, tapering 

 much to the apex, one inch long, and three-quarters of an inch 

 in diameter, with a hard, thick, wood} 7- shell, more or less fluted 

 on the outside. Seed-leaves in twos, short, and rather rounded 

 at the ends. 



A fine evergreen tree, from 60 to 80 feet high, with horizon- 

 tal, much extended branches, found on the Che-Kiang moun- 

 tains in the north of China, and on the mountains of Japan. 



Gen. CHAM^ECYPARIS. Spach. The White 



Cedar. 



Floivers, monceceous, or male and female on the same plant, 

 but separate and terminal. Male catkias cylindrical, female 

 ones globular. 



Cones, ligneous, very small, globular or oblong, numerous, and 

 covered with a glaucous bloom. 



