54 Illustrations of Conifers. 



CUPRESSUS LUSITANICA (Miller) var. Bbsthami (Carriwe). 



C. Knightiana (Knight and Perry), Syn. Conif. 20 (1850j. 



Gardeners' Chronicle, Vol. XVI. p. G68 (1894). 



Veitch's Man. Conif. ed. 2, p. 201 (1900). 



Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. V. p. 1177 (1910). 



A tree in Mexico of narrow pyramidal habit with regular branches. 

 Branchlet systems more or less regularly pinnate in one plane. 

 Ultimate divisions more flattened and compressed than in the type, 

 j' 6 inch wide, 3 \j inch thick. Leaves : lateral pair narrow, con- 

 duplicate, with acuminate free mucronate tips ; facial pair flattened, 

 ovate-acuminate ; all usually marked with a central circular glan- 

 dular depression. Bark, cones and seeds as in the type. 



Cupressus lusitanica var. Benthami occurs in the wild state 

 in Mexico ; and was introduced according to Loudon under the 

 name C. thurifera in 1838, when there was a plant a few inches 

 high in the Horticultural Society's Garden at Chiswick. It thrives 

 in the milder parts of the British Isles. 



