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While the foliage resembles Liboeedrus the fruit has a generatl 

 likeness to Oupresms or Ohamecyparis. 



Only 2 species are known, F. hodginsii, Henry and Thomas, from 

 Fukien and I. kawaii Hazata from Tonking. 



Fokienia hodginsii Henry & Thomas 



Tree to 12 m. tall. Cones 2.5 cm, long, subglobose. Fukien. 



CUPRESSUS 



Resinous, evergreen trees, rarely shrubs, with 4-angled or sometimes 

 slightly flattened branchlets. Leaves of 2 kinds; on adult plants they 

 are small and scale-like, in alternate pairs, and closely appressed to the 

 twig; on juvenile plants and on vigorous shoots of adult plants, they are 

 linear, lanceolate or awl-shaped, in whorls of 4, or sometimes ternate 

 and spreading. Flowers minute, monoecious, terminal, yellow. The 

 staminate flowers oblong, composed of numerous pairs of stamens, each 

 with 2-6 pendulous pollen cells on the edge of an ovate connective. The 

 pistillate flowers oblong or globose, composed of thick, decussate scales, 

 the ovuliferous ones bearing one to several rows of urn-shaped ovules at 

 their base. Fruit a globose cone, made up of woody, peltate scales 

 furnished with a short, knob-like mucro. Seeds with 2 thin wings, 

 Cupressus is usually biennial f)uited. 



A genus containing about 12 species, all in the warm temperate 

 regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Chamaecyparis, a closely allied 

 genus, placed by some botanists under Cupressus as a sub-genus, and 

 hardly differing from Cupressus except in its smaller and usually annual 

 fruit, of great econorhic importance in Japan, also found in Formosa, 

 has not yet been reported from China, although its discovery there might 

 not be an improbable result of extensive explorations. In Japan Chamae- 

 <;yparis obtusa and C. pisifera are important silvicultural species. 

 Morphologists detect no structural differences between the wood of 

 Cupressus and Chamaecyparis. The 2 genera, Chamaecyparis and Thuja, 

 yield the lightest of all merchantable woods in America. 



Cupressus is easily distinguished from all nearly allied genera by 

 the 4-angled branchlets with minutely denticulate leaves. 



