147 2 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



C. pedunculata has been long in cultivation in Japan, where it is known as 

 Chosen-gaya or To-gaya, meaning Korean or Chinese Cephalotaxus ; and was 

 introduced there in ancient times from Korea or China by the Buddhist monks. 

 It is unknown in the wild state, and in all probability is a hybrid between 

 C. Fortuni and C. drupacea, which originated in China, where these two species 

 are both native. It usually resembles more the former species in foliage, and 

 the latter species in fruit ; but differs from both in the clustered staminate heads, 

 which is possibly an abnormal condition. There are plants in gardens reputed 

 to be, but not exactly matching C. Fortuni, which may be seedlings of C. pedun- 

 culata. The latter species has leaves of a darker hue than C. Fortuni and 

 C. drupacea ; and is equally hardy, but is scarcely so ornamental as the true 



C. Fortuni, which has the leaves much whiter beneath. 



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The original C. pedunculata, long cultivated in Japan, was always a male plant, 

 no doubt propagated by grafts and cuttings ; and it was introduced x into England 

 in 1837. So far as can be ascertained, the history of the female plant is as 

 follows : The seeds of C. Fortuni, which were sent by Fortune 2 from China in 

 1848 to the Bagshot Nursery, produced two kinds of plants; one kind with long 

 leaves, identical with the true wild plant of C. Fortuni ; and the other kind with 

 shorter leaves, identical with C. pedunculata, and comprising individuals which 

 bore fruit. 3 (A. H.) 



1 Cf. Loudon, Trees and Shrubs, 943 (1842). It appears to have been introduced by Siebold into Holland in 1829. 



2 Cf. Fortune, in Card. Chron. 1863, p. 1 134. 



3 W. Gorrie, in Gard. Chron. 1 86 1, p. 51, points out that the shorter-leaved plants bearing fruit were certainly not 

 C. drupacea. Fortune, believing that these plants constituted a new species, sent specimens from Chekiang in 1858, which 

 are now preserved in the Lindley herbarium at Cambridge. These specimens, however, are simply a $ branch of C. Fortuni, 

 and a branch of C. drupacea ; and only show, that as both these species occur in Chekiang, the seed which he sent in 1848 

 may have been in part of hybrid origin. 



