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silver. This buried wood is pale bro-mi, close in texture, but easily worked, and 

 pleasantly fragrant. Trees of this conifer, equalling in size these buried giants, 

 cannot be found in China to-day except as rare and isolated specimens associated 

 with temples or shrines. 



A good figure of a branch and a cone of this tree, collected by James Cunning- 

 ham, is found in Plukenet, Overa IV. t. 351, fig. 1 {Amalt. 1. fig. 1) (1705) under the 

 name of Abies major sinepsis, etc. 



Pictures of this tree will be found under Nos. 76, 209, 210, 211, 212, 311, 312, 

 337, 340, 373, 549, 0183 of the collection of Wilson's photographs and also in his 

 Vegetation oj Western China, Nos. 177-185. 



CRYPTOMERIA D. Don. 



Cryptomeria japonica D. Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. XVIII. 166, t. 

 13, fig. 1 (1841). — Hooker, Icon. VII. t. 668 (1844). — Siebold & 

 Zuccarini in Abh. Akad. Miinch. IV. pt. III. 234 {Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. 

 II. 110) (1846). — Miquel in Ann. Mus. Ludg.-Bat. III. 168 (1867); 

 Prol. Fl. Jap. 332 (1867) ; in Siebold & Zuccarini, Fl. Jap. II. 43, t. 

 124, 124^ (1870). — Parlatore in De Candolle, Prodr. XVI. pt. II. 

 438 (1868). — Debeaux in Act. Soc. Linn. Bordeaux, XXX. 109 {Fl. 

 Shangh. 57) (1875). — Franchet & Savatier, Enum. PI Jap. I. 469 

 (1875). — Masters in Jour. Unn. Soc. XVIII. 497 (1881); XXVI. 

 544 (1902); XXXVII. 413 (1906). — Franchet in Nouv. Arch. Mus. 

 Paris, ser. 2, VII. 101 (PI. David. I. 291) (1884). — Sargent in Garden 

 & Forest, VI. 443, fig. 66 (1893); For. Fl. Jap. 74, t. 24 (1894).— 

 Pritzel in Bot. Jahrh. XXIX. 218 (1900). — Shirasawa, Icon. Ess. 

 For. Jap. I. 24, t. 9, fig. 25-42 (1900). — Pampanini in Nuov. Giorn. 

 Bot. Ital. n. ser. XVII. 231 (1910); XVIII. 105 (1911). — Patschke 

 in Bot. Jahrh. XLVIII. 672 (1913). 



Cupressus japonica Linnaeus f., Suppl. 'i21 (1781). — Thunberg, Fl. Jap. 



265 (1784). 

 Taxodium japonicum Brongniart in Ann. Sci. Nat. XXX. 183 (1833) ex- 



cludenda var. heterophylla. 

 Cryptomeria Fortunei Otto & Dietrich in Allg. Gartenz. 1853, 234. 



Kiangsi: Ruling, temple of Wang-lung-shih, alt. 1300 m., July 

 28, 1907 (No. 1746; two trees 35-40 m. tall, 5-5.5 m. girth, said to 

 have been planted a thousand years ago). Hupeh : " Ou-tan-scian" 

 alt. 2050 m., August and September 1907, C. Silvestri (Nos. 105, 106). 

 Western Szech'uan: Kuan Hsien, cultivated in temple grounds, 

 alt. 900 m., October 1910 (No. 4077; tree 10-13 m. tall, 1-1.5 m. 

 girth); same locality, 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 3008). Yunnan: 

 Mengtze, alt. 2000 m., A. Henry (Nos. 9667, 9667*). 



