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pointed, with a ridge and 2 white bands on the back; on adult trees 

 scale-like, in alternating pairs, rhombic-ovate and obtuse, or both scale- 

 like and acicular. Staminate flowers bright yellow, numerous. Fruit 

 globose, usually broadest and slightly depressed at the summit, brownish, 

 covered with a white bloom, with resinous flesh from 5-8 mm. in 

 diameter, 2-3, rarely more, seeded. 



China, Mongolia and Japan. 



Planted around temples and tombs, appearing wild in the mountains 

 of Hupeh, Shensi and Szechuan. On the grounds of the Temple of 

 Confucius is an avenue of large old trees. Extensively cultivated in 

 Europe and America on account of its hardiness and indifference to soil. 



Juniperus formosana Hayata. 



Tree up to 16 m. tall with longitudinally fissured bark, dark brown 

 in color, peeling off in thin strips, and ascending or spreading branches 

 with more or less pendulous, 3-cornered branchlets, at first greenish, 

 later turning reddish-brown. Leaves all acicular or awl-shaped, in 

 whorls of 3's, spreading, variable in length, from 1.2-3 cm. long, sharp 

 pointed, ridged at the back and with a broad, white line on each side of 

 the ridge. Fruit ripening the second year, globose, or ovate, 6-8 mm. 

 long, shining orange or reddish-brown, 3 seeded. Seeds 3-angled, slightly 

 mucronate at the apex. 



Widely distributed in the mountains of China, extending to Formosa. 

 Also planted around temples. Hupeh, Szechuan, Shensi, Fukien, 

 Chekiang, Hongkong. 



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Trees or shrubs with resin ducts in the bark. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 

 spirally arranged, though appearing in 2 ranks by the twisting of the 

 leaf bases. Flowers dioecious or monoecious, the male borne on more 

 or less thickened scales, forming a small cone. The pistillate flowers 

 consist of 1 or 2 ovules on a fleshy, rudimentary carpel, becoming a hard 

 bony seed, more or less surrounded by a fleshy, often highly colored 

 -arillus or receptacle. Cotyledons 2. 



About 11 genera and 100 species subdivided into 2 tribes, namely:-— 



