14 Illustrations of Conifers. 



JUNIPERUS DRUPACEA (LabMardiere). 



Icon. PL Syr. H. 14, t. 8 (1791). 



Gardeners' Chronicle, 1854, pp. 887 and 455, with fig. 



Vol. XIX. p. 519 (1896), with fig. 

 Veitch's Man. Conif. ed. 2, p. 178 (1900). 

 Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. VI. p. 1417 (1912). 



A tree attaining about 60 feet in height, broadly pyramidal in a 

 wild state, but in cultivation assuming a columnar habit. Young 

 branchlets triangular, with three prominent ridges and three grooves, 

 due to the decurrent bases of the leaves. Older branchlets terete 

 and smooth, with a brown scaly bark. Buds about J inch long, 

 surrounded by minute sharp-pointed scales. 



Leaves all acicular, spreading in whorls of three, i to I inch 

 long, ,'n to I inch broad, jointed at the base, decurrent, linear- 

 lanceolate, ending in a sharp cartilaginous point ; lower surface 

 prominently keeled ; upper surface concave, with a broad green midrib 

 which is furrowed near the base, and two white stomatic bands. 



Flowers dioecious ; staminate flowers 5 or 6 in a head, axillary, 

 on a short scaly stalk ; stamens 9 to 12 in each flower. 



Fruit ripening in the second year, the largest in the genus, 

 f to 1 inch in diameter, on a short scaly stalk, ovoid or nearly 

 spherical, brown or bluish with a glaucous bloom, usually composed 

 of nine fleshy scales which are often mucronate at the apex, enclos- 

 ing a bony stone with three cells, each containing a minute kernel. 



Junipents dnwacea is a native of the mountains of Asia 

 Minor, Syria and Greece. It grows at elevations of 1,600 to 

 5,600 feet, either forming pure woods or mixed with other coni- 

 fers. It was probably introduced into cultivation about 1854, but 

 so far as is known has never produced fruit in England, where 

 all the trees in cultivation are believed to be males. 



The illustration shows a specimen sent by M. Panic" from 

 France where several female trees are known in cultivation. 



