Illustrations of Conifers. 



JUNIPERUS BERMUDIANA (Limwnis). 



Sp. PI. 1039 (1758). 



Gardener's Chronicle, Vol. XIX. 656 (1888) with fig. 



Yeitch's Man. Conif. ed. 2, p. 166 (1900). 



Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, VoL VI. p. 1434 (1912). 



A tree attaining in the Bermudas 50 feet in height, with dark 

 red bark and spreading branches. Foliage of two kinds : on 

 adult trees, scale-like ; ultimate branchlets quadrangular, about ^ 

 inch in diameter with closely imbricated leaves in four ranks, 

 about xV inch long, ovate, obtuse at the narrow incurved apex, 

 greyish-green or glaucous on the back, which is often marked with 

 a longitudinal furrow ; leaves on older branchlets in four ranks, or 

 tern ate in six ranks, those on the main axes always ternate, up to 

 } inch long, becoming acuminate at the apex. Juvenile foliage 

 occasionally present on some branches on old trees in alternate 

 whorls of three, about } inch long, acicular, slightly spreading, 

 upper surface whitened with a raised midrib ; lower surface greyish- 

 green, furrowed. 



Flowers dioecious. Fruit ripening in the first year, sub-globose, 

 about j inch in diameter, dark-brown, very glaucous, with 6 to 8 

 scales, each marked by a depression with a minute mucro. Seeds 

 2 to 3, shining chestnut-brown, ovoid, furrowed. 



Jtmipems bermudiaua is confined to the Bermuda Islands, 

 where it is the only indigenous exogenous tree ; and thrives both 

 on the dry limestone hills and in the brackish swamps. The 

 wood was formerly much used in ship - building and in the con- 

 struction of furniture. 



The Bermuda juniper was first cultivated in England about 

 1684, but it is not hardy in this climate. The only specimen 

 growing in the open air in England, which we know of, is a 

 shrub at Bicton about 2 feet high. 



The illustration represents a native specimen collected by Capt. L. 

 Clinton- Baker, R.N. 



