20 Illustrations of Conifers. 



JUNIPERUS NIPPONICA (Maximoioicz). 



Bull. Acad. Petersb. XII. p. 280 (1868;. 



Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. VI, p. 1422 (1912). 



A shrub with rigid branches. Branchlets pendent at the apex, with 

 prominent pulvini and yellowish-green crowded leaves. Leaves ter- 

 nate, densely imbricated, linear, curved, prickly, about \ inch long ; 

 deeply and narrowly grooved above, Avith an inconspicuous band of 

 stomata in the groove ; obtusely keeled below. 



Fruit bluish, glaucous, \ inch in diameter, containing one ovoid 

 seed, which has two dorsal resin pits. 



Jmiipenis nippon'wa is peculiar to Japan, occurring in alpine 

 regions in the central island of Hondo. It superficially resembles 

 J. couwrnnis var. nana, but is easily distinguished by its deeply 

 sulcate leaves and non-tubercled fruits containing only one seed. It 

 is unknown in cultivation in England. 



The illustration represents an authentic specimen from the her- 

 barium of Maximowicz, collected in the province of Senano, Japan, 

 by Tschonoski, and preserved in the British Museum. 



