672 JUNIPERUS 



J. DRUPACEA, Labillardiere. SYRIAN JUNIPER. 



(Arceuthos drupacea, Antoine.") 



An unisexual tree of pyramidal or columnar shape, 30 to 40 ft. high in 

 cultivation, 60 ft. high in nature ; young shoots three-cornered, and bearing 

 the leaves in spreading whorls of three. Leaves uniformly awl-shaped, sharply 

 and stiffly pointed, \ to in. long, ^ to in. wide at the base ; upper surface 

 slightly concave, marked with two dull glaucous bands of stomata separated 

 by a narrow green midrib ; margins also green. The under-surface is wholly 

 green, and has the midrib rather prominent. Fruit globose, | to I in. wide, 

 brown with a glaucous covering. 



Native of the mountains of Greece, Asia Minor, and Syria ; introduced 

 about the middle of last century. It thrives better than most junipers at 

 Kew, and from its beauty and the distinctness of its shape, is well worth 

 cultivation. It is easily distinguished by the size of its leaves, which (like the 

 fruits) are the largest found among junipers. It differs from other species in 

 the leaf-bases being attached to the stem, and extending downward to the 

 next whorl (decurrent). No fruits appear to have been developed in this 

 country, 



J. EXCELS A, Bieber stein. 



A tree 30 to 40 ft. high in cultivation, twice or thrice as high in nature ; 

 bark brown, peeling off in strips ; branchlets very slender. Leaves of both 

 adult and juvenile forms, the latter awl-shaped, in pairs or in threes, \ to |- in. 

 long, sharply pointed. Adult leaves scale-like, in pairs, closely appressed to 

 the branchlets, ovate, ^j in. long, thickened towards the pointed apex, which is 

 incurved ; there is a glandular hollow towards the base. Male and female 

 flowers. on the same or separate plants. Fruit globose, \ in. diameter, dark 

 brown covered with a blue bloom, containing four to six seeds. 



Native of S.E. Europe, Asia Minor, and the Caucasus. It is an elegant, 

 narrowly pyramidal tree in cultivation, and thrives very well. The typical 

 form seems to lose its juvenile foliage, but in the handsomer var. PERKINSII, 

 well marked by its glaucous hue, the leaves are wholly of a semi-juvenile or 

 intermediate type, half or less than half of the length of the true juvenile ones, 

 but quite distinct from the true adult, scale-likes leaves. They are from 

 ^g- to \ in. long, in pairs or in threes, awl-shaped and spreading. From 

 J. virginiana, chinensis, and Sabina this species is distinguished by having 

 twice or thrice as many seeds in each fruit. 



Var, STRICTA has the same type of foliage as var. Perkinsii, but is not so 

 glaucous. 



J. FORMOSANA, Hayata. 



(J. taxifolia, Masters not Hooker?) 



In a few gardens in Britain, notably at Eastnor Castle and Bicton, there 

 grows a juniper usually known as "oblonga pendula" or "communis pendula." 

 It is the J. formosana described in 1908 by Hayata, the Japanese botanist, 

 which had previously been confused with the J. taxifolia, Hooker. It was 

 introduced by Fortune from China, where it is a tree 40 ft. high, probably 

 between 1843 and 1845, an d was put in commerce a few years later by 

 Knight and Perry of Chelsea as J. oblonga pendula. It is an elegant tree, 

 with the ends of the branches pendulous. Branchlets very slender and lax, 

 three-cornered, bearing the narrowly awl-shaped leaves in whorls of three, 

 the whorls \ to \ in. apart. Leaves \ to in. long, finely pointed, spreading', 

 glaucous on the upper side, with a fine green line up the centre ; lower side 



