CEPHALOTAXUS 



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axils. Fruit I to i ins. long, | in. wide, egg-shaped, green ; on a stalk | to 

 i in. long. 



Native of China and Japan ; introduced to Europe by Siebold about 

 1829. This species is easily distinguished from the others by the shorter, 

 upstanding leaves. It is a rather handsome evergreen of a yew-like character, 

 but bolder in foliage and not so densely furnished. 



CEPHALOTAXUS DRUPACEA. 



C. FORTUNEI, Hooker. 



(Bot. Mag., t. 4499.) 



A small tree with one or more erect stems giving off at intervals whorls of 

 branches, and rarely seen more than 10 to 20 ft. high in cultivation ; branchlets 

 forked. Leaves spreading in two opposite ranks, often almost horizontally, 

 2 to 3^ ins. long, \ in. or a little more wide ; linear, tapering to a fine point, 

 rich glossy green above, with two pale bands beneath, each composed of about 

 twenty stomatic lines, and a green raised midrib. Male flowers in globose 

 heads in. across. Fruit \\ ins. long, f in. wide, oval, brown. 



Native of N. China ; introduced by Robert Fortune in 1849. There is some 

 difficulty in properly differentiating this from C. pedunculata, but it would seem 

 to have longer, comparatively more slender leaves, farther apart on the 

 branchlet, and with finer, longer points. The lines of stomata beneath are more 

 numerous ; the male flower-heads solitary or few on a stalk. Specimens 

 gathered from the earliest raised plants sixty years ago, have more slender 

 and less divided branchlets than C. pedunculata. I am inclined to think 

 many of the so-called C. Fortunei of the present day are really the other 

 species. The true thing is a handsome and striking evergreen. 



