60 Illustrations of Conifers. 



TORREYA CALIFORNIA (Torrey). 



Neic York Journ. Pharm. III. p. 49 (1854). 



Gardeners' Chronicle, Vol. XXIV. p. 553 (1885) with fig. 



V.ser. 3, p. 800(1889) ,. 

 Veitch's Man. Gonif. ed. 2, 117 (1900). 

 Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. VI. p. 1465 (1912). 



A tree attaining in California a height of 50 to 100 feet with a girth 

 of 3 to 9 feet. Branches spreading, branchlets opposite. Buds pris- 

 matic, acute, with closely imbricated brown scales. Leaves ever- 

 green, spirally arranged, but spreading laterally in two ranks, rigid, 

 linear, with spiny points, 1 to 3 inches long, curved or straight, 

 dark shining green above, paler beneath, with a longitudinal de- 

 pressed white stomatic band on each side of the midrib. 



Staminate flowers globose, about J inch in diameter, in the axils 

 of the leaves of the terminal shoots. Fruit solitary, ellipsoid or 

 obovoid, 1 to 1| inches long, green, more or less streaked with 

 purple ; flesh thin and resinous, the inner woody shell slightly fur- 

 rowed. 



Torreya califomica, which was introduced into cultivation in 

 Great Britain in 1851, occurs wild on the borders of mountain 

 streams in California, at an altitude of 3,000 to 5,000 feet, but is 

 nowhere common. 



The specimen illustrated was obtained from Orton Longueville. 



