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long-persistent on the twigs and when old and dry arc somewhat spreading. 

 The tree flowers from December to March. Its fruit is nearly globular, dark 

 blue with a bloom, and about 8 mm, in diameter. 



The Bahama red cedar, Juniperus lucayana Britton, inhabits the northern 

 Bahama islands, though httle is now left of it on account of the use of its wood 

 for lead pencils and formerly in construction. It is not a very large tree, seldom 

 over 10 or 12 meters high, and has very slender twigs and branches which are 

 ascending or the lower drooping. It is most nearly related to Juniperus barba- 

 densis Linnaeus, from which it differs in its depressed-globose and somewhat 

 laterally flattened fruit; its leaves are 4- ranked, and only about 1.5 mm, long 

 on old twigs, but on young plants and often on the lower parts of older twigs 

 they are needle-shaped, very sharply pointed and often i cm, in length. It is 

 probable that this is also the Red cedar of eastern Cuba, but fruit from trees 

 growing there has not yet been obtained. 



The recently described Juniperus megalocarpa Sudworth, from New Mexico, 

 has large brown non-resinous fruit about 1,5 cm. in diameter, covered with a 

 blue bloom, enclosing one or two nearly orbicular somewhat flattened seeds about 

 8 mm. in diameter. It attains a height of 16 meters with a trunk over a meter 

 in diameter. Its leaves are in 3's, glandular pitted on the back, yellowish green 

 and appressed. The species is apparently most nearly related to Juniperus call- 

 jornica Carriere, but has more slender twigs. 



