Niitio-al Famili/ of Plunts called Conifera?. 167 



angnlo interiore ciirvato niargine latiore, exteiiore rectiiisculo pariiin 

 angiilato, basi liilo oblongo, apice tbramiiie oblique tcrmiuali, tubuloso, 

 ore oibieulato aperto iustructa : /iifegiiinetifo simplici. Sfmbili. subro- 

 tundi, squari'osi, inuricati. Pericarpium è foliorum verticillo ? interne 

 conferruminato, siniulque bracteâ concrete, supernè sohito in dentibus 6, 

 rariùs 3 — 5, siibulatis, compressis, sulcatis, rigidis, apice mucronatis, 

 reenrvis compositum. Bnicfece pericarpii longitiidine, eodemque infernè 

 accretae, ovato-lanceolatœ, acuininatte, subcarinata?, apice libero recur- 

 vato. Semina 4 v. 5, inoequilatcri-oblonga, compressa, collateralia, fusco- 

 badia, margine angnstè alata, hinc curvata, inde rectiuscula et pariim 

 angulata : festd Crustacea: albumen carnosinn, parcius. Embryo teres: 

 cotyledones 2 : radicula conica, brevissima, supera. 

 Arbor (japonica) /;rore/'rt, sempervirens. Truncus recfissimus, crass'ttle pedalis. 

 Lignum album, deu^c compact urn : context us Jibrosi vaaa tenu'istiima,punctis 

 minutis orbiculatis simjilici ordine crebrè /lofafa. Ramuli pat all. Folia 

 fere omniuo Araucaria? Cunninglianiii, 5-/'<//-/à«i ordinata,.subulata, rigida, 

 viridiu, verticalitèr comj/ressa, A-siilcata, incurva, viv pollica)-!a, apice cal- 

 loso obtusluscula, basi in angahon. carlnafum decurrentia ; adidtiora per- 

 sistentia ; novella prteserfim ail nnnulorum basin abbreviata, snhimbricafa. 

 Amenta mascula aggregata ; fœiiiinea solitaria. Antlierarum tbeciie farce. 

 Strobili subrotundi, vix juglandis magnitudine. 



Tab. XIII. Fig. 1. 

 1 . C. japonica. 



Cupressus japonica. Liuu: Fil. Suppl. 421. Thunh. Jap. 265. If 'Hid. Sp. 

 PL vol. iv. 513. Gœrtn. Fruct. vol. ii. /. 91. Lam. Diet. vol. ii. 244. ///. 



f. 787./. 2. 

 .San, vulgb Ssugi. Kannpf. Amwn. 883. 

 Habitat in Insula Nipponifc, et in niontibus circa Nagasaki urbem sponte 

 vulgaris. Kcempfer, Thanberg. Tj . (v. s. spont. à Thunbei'gio ipso com- 

 municatum in Herb. Linn. Fil. nunc in Mus. Soc. Linn.). 



The present genus is one of great interest in a botanical point of view from 

 the peculiarities of structure of its reproductive organs, as well as from its 

 remarkable habit, which is so like that of Araucaria or Entassa Cunniugliamii, 



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