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5. Cupressus guadaloupensis S. Wats. Tecate Cypress. 



Leaves acute, rounded and minutely glandular-pitted or eglandular on the back, light 

 blue-green, about ^V long. Fruit on stout stems j'-jj' in length, subglobose to short-ob- 

 long, f '-1 j' in diameter, puberulous especially along the margins of the six or eight scales, 

 with prominent flattened or conic acute often incurved bosses; seeds about 70 under each 

 scale, short-oblong, nearly square, light chestnut-brown up to \' in length, with a narrow 

 wing. 



A tree in California sometimes 20-25 in height, with a short slender or on exposed 

 mountain slopes a trunk occasionally 2 or 3 in diameter, few short spreading or as- 



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cending branches forming an open head, and light red-brown lustrous branchlets becoming 

 purplish. Bark smooth, lustrous, without resin or fibres, mahogany brown, the thin scales 

 in falling leaving pale marks. 



Distribution. San Diego County, California, rare and local; valley of the San Luis Rey 

 River between Valley Centre and Pala; at altitudes between 1100 and 4000 in the gulches 

 and on the summit of Mtr Tecate on the border between the United States and Lower 

 California; on a mountain below Descanso and Pine Valley; in Cedar Cafion between El- 

 nido and Dulzura; in Lower California on San Pedro Martir Mountain and Guadaloupe 

 Island. The insular form is a larger tree often with larger gland-pits on the leaves, and 

 now often cultivated in California, western Europe, and in other countries with temperate 

 climates. 



6. Cupressus arizonica Greene. Cypress. 



Leaves obtusely pointed, rounded, eglandular or rarely glandular-pitted on the back, 

 pale green, ^ '' long, dying and turning red-brown in their second season, generally falling 

 four years later. Flowers: male oblong, obtuse, their 6 or 8 stamens with broadly ovate 

 acute yellow connectives slightly erose on the margins: female not seen. Fruit on stout 

 pedicels \'-% in length, subglobose, rather longer than broad, wrinkled, dark red-brown 

 and covered with a glaucous bloom, the six or eight scales with stout flattened incurved 

 prominent bosses; seeds oblong to nearly triangular, dark red-brown, iV~i' l n g with a 

 thin narrow wing. 



A conical tree 40 -70 high with a trunk 2-4 in diameter, and stout spreading branches 

 covered with bark separating into thin plates, leaving a smooth red surface, and branchlets 



