438 CRAT.EGUS CRYPTOMERIA 



C. uniflora, differing in the leaves being ovate or oval and pointed, in the 

 longer leaf-stalks, in the two- to six-flowered corymbs, and in the more globose 

 red fruit. Native of Virginia and N. Carolina. 



C. VIRIDIS, Linnceus. 



(C. arborescens, Elliott.') 



A tree 20 to 30 ft. high ; young shoots smooth ; thorns up to i^ ins. long, 

 often absent. Leaves ovate or oval, always wedge-shaped at the base, 

 the terminal part toothed, often shallowly lobed as well ; i^ to 3^ ins. long, 

 f to i\ ins. wide ; dark glossy green above, and when mature, quite smooth, 

 except for tufts of down in the vein-axils beneath ; stalk \ to \\ ins. long. 

 Flowers white, f in. across, borne in May and June in corymbs f| to 2 ins. 

 across. Flower-stalks and calyx smooth, except that the lobes of the latter 

 are sometimes downy inside ; stamens twenty, anthers pale yellow ; styles 

 two to five. Fruit globose, J to \ in. diameter, bright red. 



Native of the south-eastern United States. It grows well in cultivation, 

 but is not one of the most attractive of thorns, the flowers, and especially the 

 fruits not being abundant. It is the type species of a group of American 

 thorns, one of which, 



C. NITIDA, Sargent^ is also in cultivation. This differs in having ovate or 

 narrowly obovate leaves ; glandular-toothed calyx-lobes ; fruit considerably 

 larger, from broadly oval to globose, in. long, covered with a glaucous bloom. 

 S. United States. 



CRYPTOMERIA JAPONICA, Don. CONIFERS. 



An evergreen, pyramidal tree, 100 to 180 ft. high in Japan, with 

 a trunk 3 to 7 ft. in diameter, clothed with a thin reddish brown bark 

 which peels off in long, narrow strips. Leaves dagger-shaped, curved 

 inwards towards the point, four-angled, \ to f in. long, attached by their 

 thickened bases to the branchlet on which they are closely and spirally 

 set, all pointing forwards. Cones brown, globular, about \ in. in diameter, 

 composed of from twenty to thirty scales, each bearing three to five seeds. 

 The general aspect of the tree is yellowish green in summer, dark green 

 in winter. 



Native of China and Japan; introduced to Kew in 1842, but not in 

 quantity un^il 1844, when Fortune, then in the employ of the Horti- 

 cultural Society, sent seeds from Shanghai. The Cryptomeria, the only 

 species of its genus, is quite distinct from any other hardy tree. Although 

 one of the great timber trees of the world, more used in Japan than any 

 other, it has not proved so generally fine a tree in this country as might 

 have been expected, the best specimens being all in the mildest and 

 moistest parts, and ranging from 60 to 80 ft. in height, with trunks from 

 2 to 2j ft. thick. It likes a deep good soil, a sheltered position, and 

 abundant rainfall. It is a very variable tree, and besides two or more 

 varieties found wild, several have originated in Japanese gardens. What 

 may be taken as the typical form has diffuse branches upturned at 

 the ends. 



Var. ARAUCARIOIDES. Branchlets long, thin, slender, pendulous. 



Var. LOBBII, Veitch. In this variety the branches are stiffer and more 



