Illustrations of Conifers. 77 



THUYA ORIENTALIS, Var. pesdula (Masters). 



Journ. R. Hort. Soc. Vol. XIV. p. 252 (1892). 



Veitch's Man, Conif. ed. 2, p. 250 (1900). 



Tree* of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. I. p. 197 (1906). 



A distinct variety of the Chinese Arbor Vitie, which is quite different 

 from the type of that species figured in Vol. I. p. 71. It is shrubby 

 in habit with numerous long flexile whip-like branchlets, which are 

 unbranched or only slightly branched, produced in irregular fas- 

 cicles of 5 to 20 or more at irregular intervals along the branches. 

 Leaves distantly placed in four rows in decussate pairs, broadly 

 decurrent at the base and long acuminate at the apex, spreading 

 from the slender pendent branchlets at an acute angle. Cones like 

 those of the type. 



This variety was discovered by Thunberg in Japan, and speci- 

 mens were collected near Yokohama by Maximowicz. It was also 

 collected by Fortune in China, and has been raised in Europe. A 

 specimen at Kew of a plant raised from seed of this variety, is 

 ordinary Thuya orientalis, this was sent from the Botanic Garden 

 at Turin by Mr. Hanbury in 1869. 



The specimen illustrated was obtained from Poles, Ware. 



