CONIFER/E 



PLUM-FRUITED CEPHALOTAXUS, Cephalotaxus drupacea. 



Shrubberies, gardens, sheltered borders or lawns. April. The curious 

 purplish, plum-like fruits render this both distinctive and interesting. It 

 is best in equal parts of loam and peat. Propagated by cuttings of shoots 

 3 ins. long in sandy soil in shady cold frame or under bell-glass or handlight 

 outdoors in autumn ; seeds in light soil in cold frame, September or March, 

 transplanting outdoors a year after. 



Flowers dioecious; Males 6-11, in axillary globose heads (compound 

 catkins), with involucre of small bract scales, flowers in axils of membranous 

 bracts ; Stamens 7-12, each with 2-3 anther cells ; Females, small pedunculate 

 cones in axils of bracts at base of terminal shoots, scales 6-20, on fleshy axis 

 of cone ; Fruit drupaceous, fleshy, purplish, elliptical, 2-3 in a head, IJ in. 

 long, I in. diam. ; seeds solitary, nut-like, shell hard, bony. 



Leaves linear, crowded, in 2 rows, opposite, stiff", falcate, twisted, coria- 

 ceous, yellowish glossy green above, nerved along middle, glaucous green 

 below, with 2 silvery bands, 1-2 ins. long, much resemble the Yew. 



An evergreen tree, 6-8 ft. ; Branches horizontal, whorled, spreading, flat, 

 stiff"; Buds small, scales acute, imbricate. 



Native of China and Japan ; introduced 1844'. In Japan called Kaja. 

 Generic name from Gr. kephale, a head ; taxis, arrangement. 



FORTUNE'S CLUSTER-FLOWERED YEW, Cephahtaxus 



Fortuni. 



Shrubberies, gardens. April. Best in light, peaty soil, and sheltered. 



Flourrs dioecious ; Males in axillary globular heads, shortly pedunculate ; 

 Fruit a drupe, fleshy, purplish, elliptical, tapering both ends, 1;^ in. long, 

 f in. diam. ; seeds solitary, shell thin, brittle. 



Leaves linear-lanceolate, on principal branches mostly alternate, scattered, 



on laterals and branchlets in tAvo rows, mostly opposite, acute, straight, flat, 



deep glossy green above, ribbed, glaucous Avhite below, margins bright green, 



3 ins. long. 



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