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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUiAI BRITANNICUM. 



Engravings. Rich. Conif., t. 18. ; Lamb. Monog., ed. 1., t. 34. ; Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., t. H3.; our 

 fig. 1987. to our usual scale ; and^g. 1988. of the natural size. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves sessile, deflexed, and spreading in every direction, 

 Hin. long; lanceolate, much pointed, rigid, flat, quite entire, somewhat 

 scabrous on the margin. Male catkins terminal, fascicled, cylindrical, 

 scarcely 1 in. long. Cones about the size of a walnut, sessile, drooping, 

 globose, smooth. Scales ovate-acuminate, coriaceous, sharply denticulated 

 on the margin. Branches for the most part verticillate, spreading horizon- 

 tally. (Lamb.) A middle-sized evergreen tree. China. Height 30 ft. to 40 ft. 

 Introduced in 1804, and rather tender in British gardens. 





1987. C. sinensis. 



19S8. C. sinensis. 



For many years this tree was kept in the green-house; but, in 1816, a plant 

 was turned out into a sheltered part of the pleasure-ground at Claremont, where 

 it has continued to live without protection ; and, though injured more or less 

 by severe winters, it was, in 1837, 18 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk Tin., 

 and of the head 16 ft., which height it had not exceeded in 1841, in conse- 

 quence of the top having been frequently broken off by heavy snow. It is 

 very readily propagated by cuttings ; and there are some trees at Dropniore, 

 raised in this manner, which have thrown up erect stems from the collar, 

 which will doubtless form as handsome trees as seedlings. 



Dammnra orientalis Lamb. (fig. 1989.), native of Amboyna, and D. australis 

 Lamb. (fig. 1990.), native of New Zealand, are described and figured in our 

 first edition, but they are too tender for tiie open garden. 



l'J89. Z). orienUIIb 



1990. D. austrilis. 



