32 Illustrations of Conifers. 



JUNIPERUS WALLICHIANA (J. D. Hooker). 



Be CandolU, Prod. Vol. XVI. 2, p. 482 (1868). 



Veitch's Man. Conif. erf. 2, p. 184 (1900). 



Tree* of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. VI. p. 1428 (1912). 



A tree attaining in the Himalayas 60 feet in height. Leaves di- 

 morphic. Adult foliage with the ultimate branchlets quadrangular, 

 about >' inch in diameter and densely covered with scale-like leaves, 

 which are arranged in four ranks in decussately opposite pairs, 

 closely appressed, narrowly ovate, about ,',; inch long, tapering to 

 an acute apex, bright green with a whitish margin, furrowed on the 

 back. Leaves on the main axes larger, up to I inch long, tipped 

 with acuminate points. Juvenile foliage often preponderating on 

 adult trees ; leaves acicular, in threes, decurrent, densely clothing 

 the branchlet in successive whorls, slightly spreading, about ^ inch 

 long, sharply mucronate, whitened on the upper surface, furrowed 

 on the back. 



Flowers dioecious. Fruit ripening in the second year, on the 

 ends of short curved branchlets, ovoid, | inch long, J inch broad 

 near the base, blue when mature, with minute mucros above, in- 

 dicating the 3 to ~) component scales. Seed solitary, ] inch long, 

 ovoid, compressed, with two or three depressions for resin-glands 

 on each surface. 



Juniperus Wallichiana is a native of the Himalayas from the 

 Indus to Bhutan between 9,000 and 15,000 feet elevation, becoming 

 shrubby in the western part of its range. It was introduced in 

 1849, when Sir J. D. Hooker sent seeds from India to Kew, and is 

 very rare in cultivation. 



The specimen illustrated is from a tree at Leonardslee, Sussex, 

 which was about 20 feet high in 1911. 



