Illustrations of Conifers. 75 



TAIWANIA CRYPTOMERIOIDES (Hayata). 



Joum. Linn. Soe. (Bot.). Vol. XXXVII. p. 330 (1906) with fig. 

 Masters in Joum. Linn. Soe. (Bot.) XXXVII. 421 (1906). 

 Hayata in Toyko Bot. Mag. XXI. pp. 21-28, plate 1 (1909). 



An evergreen tree attaining in Formosa a height of about 190 feet 

 with a trunk 20 feet or more in girth, bare of branches for about 

 60 feet from the ground, with dense foliage and spreading branches, 

 having a conical or cylindrical form. Adult leaves imbricated, thick 

 and coriaceous, triangular, acute, keeled on the back, adnate to the 

 branchlets for half their length, about ! inch long, with an incurved 

 acute apex ; leaves of young trees narrowly linear-falcate, laterally 

 compressed, keeled above and below. 



Cones cylindric, } inch long, with numerous spirally imbricated 

 rounded scales, each with a minute bract at the base. Seeds, 

 two on each scale, oblong, flattened, girt with a broad lateral 

 wing. 



Taiwania cryptomerioides was discovered by Mr. N. Konishi 

 in 1904 on the western slope of Mount Morrison, Formosa, at 6,000- 

 8,000 feet altitude. It resembles Cryptomeria in habit, and grows 

 at a high elevation with other conifers such as Picea, Abies, and 

 Cupresms, where the climate is cool throughout the year. 



It is not in cultivation. 



The illustration represents a specimen obtained by Mr. Firth, 

 Vice-Consul at Tamsui, Formosa, at the request of Captain L. 

 Clinton-Baker, R.N. 



