Illustrations of Conifers. 



JUNIPERUS CEDRUS {Webb and Berthelot). 



Phytogr. Canar. III. p. 277, t. 217 (188G-50). 



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



Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. VI. p. 1414 (1912). 



A tree attaining a maximum height of 100 feet in the Canary 

 Islands. Branches slender, pendulous. Branchlets numerous, short, 

 glaucous, angular. Leaves in whorls of three, rigid, erect, spread- 

 ing, linear-lanceolate, closely set on the branchlets, slightly con- 

 cave, very glaucous, from I to J inch long and about a line broad. 



Flowers dioecious. Fruit globular, | inch in diameter, covered 

 with a glaucous bloom, reddish-brown when mature. 



Junipenis Ceclrus was formerly abundant in the sub-alpine 

 districts and higher valleys of the Canaries but is now very 

 scarce owing to the destruction of the trees for their valuable 

 timber. In Teneriffe it has been ruthlessly cut down and is now 

 almost extinct, only a few stunted specimens remaining in inac- 

 cessible places in the Canadas around the Peak. It has disappeared 

 from the Islands of Grand Canary and Gomera, but large trees are 

 still to be found in the island of Palma, growing on the inaccessible 

 walls of the crater, and on isolated rocks, at about 7,000 ft. elevation. 

 It is said to be the quickest growing of all the Junipers. A 

 tree in the garden of Dr. Perez, at Orotava, Teneriffe, about 

 1,200 feet above sea-level, which was planted in 1906, when 7 feet 

 8 inches high, attained a height of 18 feet in five years. The 

 seed of this tree like that of many other Junipers is very difficult 

 to germinate owing to the thick seed-coat. 



The specimen illustrated was collected by Dr. Perez in Teneriffe. 



