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ARBORETUM AND FRUT1CETUM. 



PART III. 



in North America, on the banks of the waters of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains, by Mr. Lewis (see Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., ii. p. 647.) ; and, 

 since, it has been found on the Himalayas, by Captain Webb, in 

 Gossainthan, Kamaon, and on the confines of Tartary. It is a very 

 free grower ; and there are plants at Messrs. Loddiges's, in the 

 Horticultural Society's Garden, and in the Fulham Nursery. There 

 is a large tree of this species in the Jardin des Plantes, 32 ft. high, 

 diameter of the trunk 1 ft. 3 in., and of the head 25 ft. 



13. J. SQUAMA^TA D. Don. The scaled Juniper, or creeping Cedar. 



Identification. Lamb. Pin., 2. No. 66. ; D. Don Fl. Nepalensis, p. 55. ; Royle Illust. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves in threes, closely imbricated, ovate-oblong, more or less pointed ; 

 remaining on after they are withered ; young ones inflexed at the apex, as if obtuse- 

 Berries ovate, umbilicate on the top. Branches and branchlets crowded round. Stem 

 prostrate. (Lamb. Pin.) A large, decumbent, much -branched shrub. Branches large, 

 3ft. to 6ft., reclinate; apices ascending. Bark brownish purple, scaling off. Branchlets 

 crowded round, closely imbricated with leaves. Leaves in threes, oblong, closely imbri- 

 cated, of an intense green, very smooth, externally convex ; young ones generally ob. 

 tuse, with an inflexed point ; adult ones more or less pointed; when withered, always 

 having a very long point, persistent, and adhering to the branches like scales ; whence 

 the name. Berries numerous, roundish-ovate, solitary, red, on a short scaly footstalk, 

 umbilicate at the summit, a little larger than in the common juniper. (Lamb. Pin.) 

 Found in Narainhetty, in Nepal, by Dr. Hamilton ; and on the Bhotan Alps, by Cap- 

 tain Webb : flowering in August. It was introduced in 1824 ; but we have not seen the 2370 

 plant. 



m 14. J. RECU'RVA Ham. The recurved Nepal Juniper. 



Identification. Ham. MSS., as quoted in Don's Flora Nepalensis, p. 55. 

 Engraving. Our Jig. 2371. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves linear-lanceolate, mucronate 

 loosely imbricated, smooth, convex beneath. Berries 

 roundish oval, tubercled. Branches and branchlets 

 recurved. (D. Don.) A shrub, found by Dr. Hamil- 

 ton in Narainhetty, in Nepal, and flowering there in 

 February. There is a plant in the Horticultural So- 

 ciety's Garden, which, in 1837, after having been 

 four years planted, was 3 ft. high ; and one at Messrs. 

 Loddiges's, 4 ft. high, which ripened fruit, and from 

 which our figure was taken. It forms a graceful 

 bush, or low tree, from its pendulous habit ; and it is 

 readily distinguished from all the other species, not 

 only by this circumstance, but by the mixture of its 

 brown, half-decayed chaffy leaves of the past year, 

 with its greenish grey leaves of the present year. 

 The bark is rough, brown, and soon begins to curl 

 up ; when it has a rough appearance, and ultimately 

 scales off. 



15. J. UVI'FERA D. Don. The grape-bearing, or large-fruited, Juniper. 



Identification. Lamb. Pin., 2. No. 67. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves ovate, obtuse, adpressed, imbricated in 4 rows. Branchlets short, erect, 

 crowded, knotted. Drupes terminal, roundish. (Lamb. Pin.) A decumbent, much branched 

 shrub. Branches ascending, round, covered with a greyish brown scaly bark. Branchlets short, 

 erect, crowded, closely imbricated with leaves, knotted, twiggy. Leaves ovate, obtuse, adpressed, 

 imbricated in 4 rows, quite entire, coriaceous, glabrous, smooth. Drupes roundish, purple, about 

 the size and shape of a small grape, solitary on the apexes of the branchlets, sessile, smooth. 

 Abundant about Cape Horn, and the only species in the southern hemisphere. It was introduced 

 from Cape Horn by Mr. Middleton, probably about the beginning of the present century, but we 

 have not seen a plant. (See Lambert.) 



1 16. J. BARBADE'NSIS L. The Barbadoes Juniper. 



Identification. Lin. Sp. PL, 1471.; Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 851.; Reich., 4. p. 276.; Pluk. Phyt., 

 t 197. f. 4. ; Mart. Mill., No. 2. ; Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 2. p. 647. 



; Jamaica Berry-bearing 



Synonymes. J. bermudi^na Hort. Ang., t. 1. f. 1., Brown Jam., 



Cedar. 

 Engraving. Pluk. Phyt., t. 197. f. 4. 



Spec. Char., %r. All the leaves imbricate in 4 rows; the younger ovate, the older acute. (Willd.) 

 A large timber tree, with very widely spreading branches. The bark 'is rugged, of a very dark 



