Natural Family of Plants called Coniferse. 167 



angulo interiore curvato maigine latiore, exteriore rectiusculo parilm 

 angiilato, basi hilo oblongo, apice foramine obliqufe terminali, tubuloso, 

 ore orbiculato aperto instructa: integumento simplici. Strobili subro- 

 tundi, squarrosi, muricati. Pericarpium h. foliorum verticillo ? infern^ 

 conferrutninato, simulque bractea concreto, supern^ soluto in dentibus 6, 

 rariils 3 — 5, subulatis, compressis, sulcatis, rigidis, apice mucronatis, 

 reeurvis compositTim. Bractece pericarpii longitudine, eodemque infernfe 

 accretse, ovato-lanceolatse, acuminatee, subcarinatse, apice libero recui'- 

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

 badia, margine angust^ alata, hinc curvata, inde rectiuscula et pariim 

 angulata: testd Crustacea: albumen carnosum, parcius. Embryo teres: 

 cotyledones 2 : radicula conica, brevissima, supera. 

 Arbor (japonica) procera, sempervirens. Truncus rectissimus, crassitie pedalis. 

 Lignum album, dens^ compactum : contextdsjibrosi vasa tenuissima, punctis 

 minutls orbiculatis simplici ordine crebre notata. Ramuli patuli. Folia 

 /er^ omnino Araucarise Cunninghamii, b-fariam ordinata, subulata, rigida, 

 viridia, verticaliter compressa, A-sulcata, incurva, vix pollicaria, apice cal- 

 loso obtusiuscula, basi in angulum carinatum decurrentia ; adultiora per- 

 sistentia ; novella prcesertim ad ramulorum basin abbreviata, subimbricata. 

 Amenta mascula a^greg-a^a ; foeminea *o/?'^aHa. Antherarum thecse^at^a-. 

 Strobili subrotundi, vix juglandis magnitudine. 



Tab. XIII. Fig. 1. 

 1 . C. japonica. 



Cupressus japonica. Linn. Fil. Suppl. 421. Thunb. Jap. 265. JVilld. Sp. 



PL vol. \v. 5\3. Gcertn. Fruct. vol. n. t. 91. Lam. Diet. vol. ii. 2i4. III. 



t.7S7.f.2. 

 San, vulgb Ssugi. Kcempf. Amcen. 883. 

 Habitat in Insula Nipponioe, et in montibus circa Nagasaki urbem spontfe 



vulgaris. Kcempfer, Thunberg. ^ . (v. s. spont. a Thunbergio 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 Eutassa Cunninghamii, 



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