240 THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS 



scales with long-acuminate processes and long-pointed bracts, making the 

 cone very spiny. — Introduced in 1861 by Siebold to Holland. 



Var. Lobbii, Carr. Lobb C. Similar to the preceding, of more compact 

 habit, with more appressed dark green leaves and the cones with the pro- 

 cesses and the bracts even longer. — Introduced in 1845 by Wm. Lobb from 

 Buitenzorg, Java. 



Var. sinensis, Sieb. & Zucc. (var. Fortunei, Henry. C. Fortunei, Hooi- 

 brenk). Tree of more diffuse habit, with slenderer branches, deflexed branch- 

 lets and longer and slenderer leaves: cones with fewer scales which have 

 shorter processes and shorter tips of scales. TUs was the first of the forms 

 introduced into cultivation, as stated under the species. It is somewhat 

 tenderer than the Japanese type. 



Var. compacta, Beiss. Cave C. Of very compact habit, with bluish-green 

 foliage. 



Var. nana, Carr. Dwarf and procumbent, densely branched form; adapted 

 for rockeries. 



Var. araucarioides, Henk. & Hochst. Branches deflexed with long, dis- 

 tantly placed, pendulous branchlets: leaves small, stout and stiff, incurved 

 at apex, bright green. 



Var. dacrydioides, Carr. With long, distant branches, close, somewhat 

 pendent branchlets, and short, very closely set leaves of brownish color. 



Var. pungens, Carr. Prickly C. Compact form with spreading, rigid, 

 and sharply pointed much-compressed leaves of bluish-green color. 



Var. cristata, Beiss. (var. Lobbii cristata, Hort.). Monstrous form with 

 fasciated coxcomb-like branches, with occasional normal branches. 



Var. spiralis, Sieb. & Zucc. Slender shrub, with strongly falcate leaves, 

 twisted spirally around the branchlets. 



Var. elegans. Mast. (C. elegans, Veitch). Spreading C. Plate XXIV. 

 Low dense tree, with horizontal branches and pendulous branchlets: leaves 

 linear, flattened, soft, spreading, longer than in the type, bright green, chang- 

 ing to bronzy red in fall and winter. Very handsome when yoimg, but short- 

 lived. — Introduced in 1861 to Great Britain and in 1862 to this country by 

 Dr. G. R. HaU. 



17. CUNNINGHAMIA, R. Br. CHINA-FIR 



Evergreen trees with whorled spreading branches distichously ramified 

 with opposite branchlets; without distinct winter-buds: leaves linear-lan- 

 ceolate, rigid, densely spirally arranged and 2-rowed in direction: flowers 

 monoecious; staminate oblong, fertile globose, both sexes in small clusters 

 at the end of the branches : cones roundish-ovate, 1-2 inches long, with round- 

 ish-ovate, serrate and pointed, coriaceous scales, each with 3 narrow-winged 

 seeds at the base; cotyledons 2. (Named in honor of J. Cunningham who 



