Illustrations of Conifers. 



JUNIPERUS BREVIFOLIA (Antoiae). 



Cupress. Gattung. p. 16, tt. 20-22 (1857). 

 Veitch's Man. Conif. ed. 2. p. 180 (1900). 

 Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. VI. p. 1418 (1912). 



A small tree in the Azores with a stem often 3 to 4 feet in girth. 

 Branchlets numerous, short, densely clothed with foliage. Leaves 

 all acicular, in alternate whorls of three, very short and broad, \ to I 

 inch long, about T \j inch wide, oval-linear, jointed and swollen at 

 the slightly narrowed base, widest about the middle whence they 

 taper to a rounded or acute apex ; upper surface with a narrow 

 green midrib not extending to the apex, on each side of which 

 is a broad white stomatic furrow bounded by an external green 

 band ; lower surface green with a prominent midrib ; margin entire, 



Flowers dioecious. Fruit sub-globose, I inch in diameter, on 

 short scaly stalks, dark reddish-brown when mature ; scales three, 

 separated at the apex by three radiating prominent lines, and 

 each marked by a minute mucro. Seeds three, ovoid, triquetrous ; 

 outer surface longitudinally furrowed, not separated from the inner 

 surface by a winged margin as in J. Oxycedrus. 



This species is very distinct on account of its short glaucous 

 leaves. Its seeds are also different from those of the allied species. 



Junipenis brevifolia is limited to the Azores, where it occurs 

 on the islands of Corvo, Flores, Fayal, San Miguel and Pico, as- 

 cending to 5,000 feet and rarely descending below 1,000 feet. It 

 is locally known as Cedro. Formally it appears to have been a tree 

 of considerable size, as large logs have been found deeply buried 

 under the secondary volcanic debris in the Grotto do Enferno of 

 the large crater known as Caldeira des Sette Cidades. A slab of 

 this which was reported to have been excavated from a depth of 

 100 metres was presented to the Kew Museum by Dr. Goeze. 



This Juniper has not yet been introduced into English gar- 

 dens. The illustration represents a native specimen photographed 

 at the British Museum Herbarium. 



