CONIFEROUS TREES 



Botanic Gardens, Java, had been sent twenty years earlier by Siebold 

 from Japan. 



Of more compact habit than the type, the branches shorter and more 

 ramified, the leaves longer, of a darker green. 



CUPEESSUS OBTUSA, C. Koch. 



Syria. Retinospora obtusa, Sieb. & Zucc. 



Gard. Chron. 1861, p. 265 ; Man. Con. 1900, ed. 2, p. 220, fig. 64. 

 Sent from Japan by the late John Gould Veitch, probably the first 

 timber-producer of that country : a favourite subject for the mutilation and 

 dwarfing in which the Japanese delight, and in which they so greatly excel. 

 The species and several varietal forms are in general cultivation. 



CUPEESSUS OBTUSA, C. Koch, var. FILICOIDES, Kent. 

 Syns. Retinispora nobleana, Hort.; R. filicoides, Gordon. 



Mail. Con. 1900, ed. 2, p. 221, fig. 65 ; Gordon's Pinetum, ed. 2, p. 364 ; Gard. Chron. 



1876, vol. v. p. 235, fig. 



A variety received with the type from Japan by the late John Gould 

 Veitch, with fern-like foliage and corrugated coruscated branchlets. 



CUPEESSUS OBTUSA, C. Koch, var. LYCOPODIOIDES. 



Syns. Retinospora lycopodioides, Gord. 

 Gordon's Pinetum, ed. 2, p. 364 ; Man. Con. 1900, ed. 2, p. 222. 



Introduced by the late John Gould Veitch, with the type species, in 

 1861, the foliage that of a Lycopode. 



CUPEESSUS PISIFEEA, C. Koch. 



Syns. Retinispora pisifera, Sieb. & Zucc. 

 Gard. Chron. 1861, p. 265 ; id. 1876, vol. v. p. 235, fig. ; Man. Con. 1900, ed. 2, p. 224, figs. 



Cupressus pisifera and all varieties of Japanese origin in cultivation are 

 due to the late John Gould Veitch. 



Many as C. aurea, C. filifera, C. plumosa, and C. squarrosa are among 

 the most frequently met with, and the most decorative of Conifer. 

 Though mostly found with C. obtusa, they are in old age scarcely 

 distinguishable, but long recognized as distinct species by the Japanese, 

 who designate each by a different vernacular name ; C. obtusa is Hi-no-ki 

 and C. pisifera, Sa-wa-ra. 



CUPEESSUS PISIFEEA, C. Koch, var. SQUAEEOSA, Mast. 



Syns. Retinispora squarrosa, Sieb. & Zucc. 



Masters in Jour. R.H.S. vol. xiv. 297; Gordon's Pinetum, ed. 2, p. 371; Man. Con. 



1900, ed. 2, p. 225, fig. 69. 



So very a distinct variety of Cupressus pisifera Siebold and Maxi- 

 mowicz held it a distinct species, the real origin unknown. Beissener 



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