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are rarely so erect and adpressed, nor the leaves of such a 

 deep green as in those of that tree, while it rarely rises 

 to more than 8 feet in height. The leaves are bluntly fal- 

 cata, or more usually sabre-shaped, less than 2 inches long, 

 by I of an inch broad, thick and fleshy, and for the greater 

 part furnished with short footstalks. Above they are of a 

 deep glossy green, with a distinctly raised narrow midrib, 

 while beneath two rather indistinct silvery bands run along 

 their full length. Both branches and branchlets have a 

 peculiar channelled or tuberculated appearance, caused by the 

 long decurrent base of the leaves, these, in most instances, 

 reaching -o- an inch in length, and are persistent after the 

 removal of the foliage. 



C- pedunculata sphasralis, Masters. This differs 

 principally in the fruit being almost circular or spherical in 

 shape, instead of oval as in the species. They are produced 

 freely on a goodly-sized specimen growing on the Churchill 

 estate, North Ireland, far more freely than is the case with the 

 species alongside which it is planted. The fruit is clustered, 

 sometimes upwards of a dozen together, each berry being fully 

 f of an inch in diameter, and containing an oval-shaped seed. 

 The habit is more open than that of the species, and the 

 foliage usually shorter. From Wiston Park, Steyning, I have 

 received fruiting specimens of this variety. 



CRYPTOMERIA (Don). 



THE JAPAN CEDARS. 



Flowers monoecious; males in axillary spikes; females 

 solitary, spherical and terminal. 



Cones globular, prickly when ripe. 



Scales palmately divided at the edge, wedge-shaped and 

 loose. 



Seeds four or five under each scale, with a slight membranous 

 wing. 



Cotyledons flat, leafy, from two to four, but mostly in threes. 



