332 CEPHALOTAXUS CERCIDIPHYLLUM 



C. OLIVERI, Masters. 



A Chinese species, first found on Mount Omi, in Szechuen, by the Rev. 

 E. Faber, and in 1900 by Wilson, who sent home seeds. I only know of it at 

 present as a living plant in Messrs Veitch's nursery at Coombe Wood. There 

 it is a low bush of sturdy habit, with flat, stiffly spreading branches. Leaves 

 f to i in. long, to in. wide ; linear, curving slightly towards the end of the 

 shoot, terminated abruptly in a short, stiff point ; the base slightly the broadest 

 part of the leaf, and truncate with rounded corners ; the leaves are arranged on 

 the twigs in two flat, quite horizontal ranks, very stiff, and so close together that 

 the margins touch ; dark green above, pale*r green at the margins and centre 

 beneath, with two glaucous strips, each composed of about fifteen lines of 

 stomata. Fruit (only seen in native specimens) egg-shaped, conspicuously 

 tapered at the ends, i|- ins. long, f in. wide, borne on a stalk ^ in. long. A 

 striking evergreen, especially in the close, stiff, comb-like arrangement of the 

 v leaves. 



C. PEDUNCULATA, Siebold. 

 (Podocarpus koraianus, Hort^) 



A spreading shrub or a small tree, with mostly alternate branchlets. 

 Leaves in two opposite ranks not all in the same plane, some being semi-erect ; 

 linear, f to i\ ins. long, about in. wide, rather abruptly narrowed to a fine 

 point ; dark green above, marked beneath with a broad glaucous strip each 

 side the midrib, composed of fifteen to eighteen fine lines of stomata. Male 

 flowers in a branched cluster f to i j ins. long. Fruit oval, or obovoid, about 

 i in. long. 



Native of Japan ; introduced to Europe at the same time as C. drupacea, 

 in 1829, by Siebold. Some authorities regard it as a variety of C. drupacea, but 

 as noted above under C. Fortunei, the difficulty is to distinguish it from that 

 species (q.v.}. It appears, however, to be intermediate in some respects 

 between them, especially in length of leaf and in number of stomatic lines 

 beneath. Some plants at Kew, apparently in vigorous health, are only 4 to 5 ft. 

 high, although planted where they are now forty years ago, spreading much 

 more in width than in height ; they were perhaps raised from cuttings. 



Var. FASTIGIATA. A very interesting and distinct form, analogous in its 

 mode of growth to the Irish yew. The branches and branchlets are quite 

 erect, sparsely divided, all the leaves being arranged spirally like those of the 

 leading shoot of the type, and mostly decurved. The shrub is slow-growing, 

 and of sturdy, columnar shape when young ; useful for positions where a formal 

 habit is desired. J have seen, however, large specimens in Italy and Dalmatia 

 that assume a more open, spreading form (like old Irish yews), with a 

 tendency to revert to the typical, distichous-leaved form at the base. 



Var. SPHjERALls. A form with quite globular fruits, described by the late 

 Dr Masters from a tree growing in the garden of the Rev. J. Goring at 

 Steyning, Sussex. (See* Gardeners' Chronicle, Jan. 26, 1884, p. 113, fig. 23.) 



CERCIDIPHYLLUM JAPONICUM, Siebold. TROCHO- 



DENDRACE/E. 



A deciduous tree of the largest size, often 100 ft. high in its native 

 state, with pendulous branches and a spirally twisted, furrowed trunk. 

 The trunk is sometimes solitary, and 3 to 4 ft. through, but more often 

 the tree is made up of a group of several smaller stems. Leaves mostly 



