232 THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS 



cupressoides, Endl. {Callitris cupressoides, Schrad.). Shrub or small tree: 

 leaves imbricate, scale-like: cone-scales smooth on back with an obtuse 

 mucro below the apex and each with 5-10 winged seeds. South Africa. — 

 Introduced to France before 1850. 



11. SCIADOP TYS, Sieb. & Zucc. UMBRELLA-PINE 



Evergreen tree: leaves of two kinds; small and scale-like leaves scattered 

 on the shoot, but crowded at its end and bearing in their axils a whorl of 

 20-30 long, linear, flat leaves furrowed on each side, more deeply beneath; 

 these leaves really consist each of 2 connate leaves borne on undeveloped 

 spurs like those of Pinus; they have been sometimes called cladodes, but are 

 not true cladodes: flowers monoecious; the stamina te oval, consisting of 

 spirally disposed 2-celled anthers and appearing in dense clusters at the ends 

 of the shoots; the fertile ones are solitary at the ends of the shoots and con- 

 sist of numerous 

 spirally arranged 

 scales subtended by 

 a small bract and 

 bearing 7-9 ovules: 

 cone oblong-ovate, 

 woody, ripening the 

 second season; 

 bracts adnate to the 

 broadly orbicular 

 thick scales spread- 

 ing at the margin; 

 seeds oval, com- 

 pressed, with narrow 

 wing, emarginate at 

 the apex; cotyledons 

 2. (Name derived 

 from Greek skias, 

 skiados, umbrella, 

 and pitys, pine; al- 

 luding to the posi- 

 tion of the leaves.) 

 — One species in 

 Japan, with very 

 strong and straight- 

 grained, nearly 

 white wood. 



54. Sciadopitys 

 verticillato. 



