PINACEAE. — JUNIPERUS 61 



Juniperus sphaerica Lindley & Paxton in Paxton's Fl. Gard. I. 58, fig. 35 



(1850-1851). — Pampanini in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. ser. XVII. 214 



(1910). 

 Juniperus Cabiancae Visiani in Mem. Istit. Venet. Sci. VI. 246, t. 1 ** 



(1856). —Gard. Chron. 1857, 548. 

 Sabi7ia sphaerica Antoine, Cupress. 52, t. 72 (pro parte) (1857). 

 Sabina chinensis Antoine, Cupress. 54, t. 75, 76, fig. a, t. 78, fig. 1, u (1857). 

 Sabina struthiacea Antoine, Cupress. 69 (1857). 

 Sabina dimorpha Antoine, Cupress. 70 (1857). 



Juniperus FortuniiVa,n Houtte ex. Gordon, Pinetum, 119 (quasi synon.) (1858). 

 Juniperus chinensis, var. pendula Franchet in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, ser. 



2, VII. 101 {PI. David. I. 291) (1884). 



Western Hupeh: Fang Hsien, alt. 1000-1300 m., May 24, 1907 

 (No. 2104, in part; tree 6-10 m. tall, branches horizontally spreading 

 and ascending, stiff) ; Changyang Hsien, alt. 600-1500 m., cultivated, 

 April 1907 (No. 2104, in part; tree 6-10 m. tall, dense, pyramidal in 

 habit); Hsing-shan Hsien, roadside, alt. 300-1000 m., July and No- 

 ember 1907 (No. 2103, in part; tree 10 m. tall, with a trunk 1 m. in 

 girth); without locality, A. Henry (No. 6576). Eastern Sze- 

 ch'uan: Wan Hsien, planted among tombs, alt. 100-300 m., April 

 ISO8, January 1909 (No, 2103, in part; tree 5-10 m. tall, densely 

 branched and pyramidal in habit). Shensi: base of the Tai-pei- 

 shan, 1910, W. Purdom; Tsinling mountains, January 1873, A. 

 David (type of /. chinensis, var. pendula Franchet). 



This tree is a native of the north-eastern parts of China and is very rare in 

 western Hupeh and in Szech'uan where it is occasionally met with planted round 

 tombs and temples. In both fruit and foliage some of the specimens before us 

 agree exactly with the figure of J. sphaerica Lindley & Paxton and we can- 

 not consider this plant as a distinct species or even as a variety. Its identity with 

 /. chinensis Linnaeus was first suggested by Masters (in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 

 543 [1902]). A colloquial name in Hupeh for this Juniper is " Ai-peh-shu." Pic- 

 tures will be found under Nos. 26, 462 of the collection of Wilson's photographs, 

 also in his Vegetation of Western China, Nos. 485, 486. 



Here may be added descriptions of two new Junipers of western China not 

 collected during the Arnold Arboretum expeditions. 



Juniperus saltuaria Rehder & Wilson, n. sp. 



Arbor 3-15-metralis, trunco 0.3-1 m. circuitu, habitu pyramidali, ramis strictis 

 erecto-patentibus v. ascendenti-patentibus in arboribus vetustis, cortice levi cin- 

 namomeo v. griseo-brunneo, in lamellas tenues soluto; ramuli tetragoni breves, 

 saepius leviter recurvi. Folia laete viridia, tertio anno marcescentia, diu per- 

 sistentia, heterotaxica, in ramuUs lateralibus quadrifaria, squamiformia, arete 

 adpressa, apice leviter incurva, triangulari-ovata, acuta v. obtusiuscula, dorso rotun- 

 data, inconspicue glanduhfera, 1-2 mm. longa, ea ramulorum terminalium terna, 

 angustius triangulari-ovata, acuta v. acuminata, 2-4 mm. longa. Flores monoeci; 

 mascuh terminales in ramuUs lateralibus brevibus, subglobosi, circiter 2 mm. 

 longi, staminibus 8-10 decussatis. Galbulus erectus v. patens, monospermus, 

 ovoideus v. subglobosus, 5-6 mm. longus, apice rotundatus, apicibus squamu- 



