126 GLYPTOSTROBTTS, OR 



Gen. GLYPTOSTEOBUS. Endlicher. The Em- 

 bossed Cypress. 



Flowers, monoecious, or male and female on the same plant, 

 but on separate parts, and terminal. 



Cones, egg-shaped, or oblong, and composed of several un- 

 equal-sized scales, all rising from the same point at the base, 

 and leathery. 



Seeds, two under each scale. 



Leaves, scattered and trigonal. 



Name, derived from " Glypho," embossed, and " strobus," a 

 cone ; scales of the cone embossed on the face. 



A small tree, native of China, where it is called Water Pine. 



Glyptostrobus heterophyllus, Endlicher, the Chinese 



Water Pine. 



Syn. Taxodium nuciferum, Brongniart. 



Japonicum, Denhardt. 



heterophyllum, Brongriiart. 



Schubertia Japonica, Spach. 



nucifera, Denhardt. 



Thuja lineata, Poiret. 



lavandulsefolia, Poiret. 



pensilis, Staunton, 



Cupressus nucifera, Hort. 



Sinensis, Hort. 



Juniperus aquatica, Roxburgh. 



Leaves of various shapes, alternate, some scale-formed, small, 

 ovate, acute or obtuse pointed, sometimes much longer, closely 

 pressed and decurrent along the shorts, sometimes two-rowed, 

 regularly tortuose, and almost awl-shaped, from three to eight 

 lines long, slightly curved, blunt or somewhat acute at the 

 ends, and of a glaucous-gray colour, the lower ones near the 

 base of the shoots frequently very short, scale-formed, somewhat 



