24 Illustrations of Conifers. 



JUNIPERUS PROCERA {Hochstetler). 



Endlicher, Si/n. Conij. p. 26 (1847). 



Veitch's Man. Ccmif. ed. 2, p. 177 (1900). 



Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. VI. p. 1890 (1912). 



A large tree, attaining in British East Africa a height of 80 to 100 

 feet, with a tall straight trunk, occasionally :>."> feet in girth. 



Branchlets irregularly pinnate, the ultimate divisions more or 

 less quadrangular, slender, about .,',, inch in diameter. Leaves on 

 the main divisions lanceolate, acuminate, sharp-pointed ; appressed, 

 about I inch long ; on the secondary branchlets smaller and shorter ; 

 on the ultimate divisions minute and scale - like, decussate, im- 

 bricate, ovate-lanceolate, acute or sub-acute, convex on the back, 

 which has often an oblong glandular pit. Acicular leaves in threes 

 or in pairs, rarely present on adult trees. 



Fruit globose, conspicuously glaucous, ! inch in diameter, with 

 two or three ovate seeds. 



Jumper us procera has been considered to be a variety of 

 ,/. excelsa by some authorities, but differs in its smaller fruit, and 

 is a tropical tree with quite a different distribution. In British 

 East Africa, where it is known as Cedar, it is found in the drier 

 forests, mainly between 7,000 and 8,000 feet altitude, but often as 

 low as 5,500 feet. It is wide-spread on the equatorial highlands of 

 Africa and in Abyssinia. Its timber is of great value, being scarcely 

 distinguishable from that of the American Juatperus vinjhiiana, 

 which is used in the manufacture of lead pencils. It attains 

 larger dimensions than any other juniper. Mr. D. E. Hutchins 

 in his report on the forests of British East Africa describes and 

 figures a giant specimen in the Kenia forest, with a clean bole of 

 65 feet in height, and 12 feet in diameter, and a total height of 

 about 110 feet. 



Jutiiperua procera is occasionally cultivated under glass in 

 botanic gardens in England. 



The illustration is from a type specimen in the British Museum 

 which was collected in Abyssinia by Schimper, through whom this 

 juniper first became known to botanists. 



