34 HARDY CONIFEROUS TREES. 



months. It is of small growth, thickly branched and foliaged, 

 the branchlets being shortly pendulous. 



C. japonica Lobbi. Compared with the species, 

 this forms a tree of narrower and more compact outline, the 

 leaves also being of a brighter and more vivid green colour. 

 It is equally vigorous with the species, and in this country 

 has attained to stately dimensions, with a straight, well- 

 formed trunk, that is furnished throughout with bushy, thickly 

 foliaged branches, the spread of which is usually less than 

 one-third of the height. 



C, Japonica Sanders! i, which originated in Cork, is 

 of dense habit, with very distinct foliage. 



C- japonica spiralis. Though quite distinct and 

 noteworthy, this cannot be described as an ornamental variety. 

 The branches are lithe and weak, irregular as to length and 

 arrangement, and having short, closely-appressed leaves of a 

 dull green colour, and so thickly and shortly set as to appear 

 in a spiral manner throughout the entire length. 



CUNNINGHAMIA (Brown). 



Flowers moncecious. 



Cones globular or ovoid ; sometimes with the axis elongated 

 into a leafy shoot. 



Scales without bracts, acute-pointed. 



SeedSy three under each scale, winged, pendulous. 



Leaves lanceolate, flat. 



Cotyledons^ two. 



A medium sized evergreen tree from China, nearly allied to 

 Araucaria. 



Cunning^hamia sinensis,^ Brown. {Synonyms: 

 Belis jaculifoliay Salisbury ; Pinus laiiceolata, Lambert.) 

 Southern China. 1804. This tree is of too tender constitution 

 for the climate of Britain generally, still in certain favoured 

 localities, particularly within the influence of the sea, it does 



1 For a full account of Ciinninghamia sinensis^ see my arlicle in The Garden^ 

 vol. xxix., page 173, 1 886. 



