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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



Leaves imbricated in 4 rows, acute, keeled, glaucous, adpressed. (Lamb. 

 Pin.) A branchy evergreen tree ; in England a shrub. Goa, in the East 

 Indies, and for many years cultivated in Portugal. Height 50 ft. ; in Eng- 

 land, 15 ft. to 30 ft. Introduced in 1683. Flowering in April and May, 

 and ripening its cones in the following spring. 



This species, in the climate of London, attains the height of 1 or 12 feet in 

 twelve years, and forms a remarkably handsome low tree, with spreading 

 branches, somewhat pendulous, and covered with fine glaucous foliage. In the 

 winter of 1837-8, however, it was every where killed to the ground. The 

 tree is abundant at Bussaco, near Coimbra, in Portugal, whence cones might 

 be imported, and thus so fine a tree rendered frequent in collections. Its 

 seeds may be treated like those of the white cedar ; or it may be propagated 

 by cuttings, as in T^huja. 



i 4. C. TORULO^SA Lamb. The Bhotan, or twisted. Cypress. 



Identification. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 2. No. 59. ; D. Don in Prodromus Nepalensis, p. 55. 

 Engravings. Our figs. 1909, to 2001. of the natural size, from specimens taken from the plant in the 



Hort. Soc. Garden, and showing the very different appearance that the shoots assume on the same 



plant, and that even a young one. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves ovate-obtuse, imbricated in 4 rows. Galbulus 

 globose, pedicellate. Scales bossed. Branchlets round, knotted, divari- 

 cate, crowded, spreading. (Lnmb.) A beautiful, pyramidal, much-branched, 

 evergreen tree. Nepal, on the Bhotan Alps, at 1500ft. above the sea., 

 Height 30 ft. Introduced in 1824. Flowering in April. 



1999. 



C. torulisa. 2000. 



Branches crowded, ascending ; branchlets much crowded, round, divaricate, 

 spreading, knotted, 2 in. to 6 in. long, very closely imbricated with leaves. 

 Leaves small, ovate-obtuse, convex, smooth, imbricated in 4 rows, adpressed, 

 green ; adult ones persistent, and falling off with the bark. Only young male 

 catkins seen. It appears tolerably hardy, and is remarkably handsome ; and 

 there are now abundance of plants in the nurseries. 



1 5. C. pe'ndula Thunb. The weeping Cypress. 



Identification. Thunb. Fl. Japon., p. 265. ; Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 512. ; Staunt. Embass 

 Si/nonyme. Fi-moro, Kcempf. Amoen. p. S83. 



Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., t. 66. Staunt. Embass., t. 41.; our fig. 2003. to our 

 Jig. 2004. of the natural size ; and fig. 2002. showing parts of the shoots mag- 

 nified. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Branchlets 2-edged, leafy ; the oldest very 



long, pendulous ; the younger short, alternate, 2-rovved, 



spreading. An evergreen tree. China, said to have been 



introduced in 1808, but respecting which we know nothing 



with certainty. The pendulous cypress, or Thuja, at 



Chelsea and in the Kew arboretum, may possibly be the 



same as Thunbergs plant. 



., 2. p. 525. 

 usual scale ; 



