Juniperus '397 



§ 2. Caryocedrus, Endlicher, Syn. Conif. 8 (147). 



Leaves as in § Oxycedrus, but decurrent on the branchlets, which show 

 between the whorls three raised pulvini, separated by grooves. 



Staminate flowers, three to six in a head, on a scaly stalk arising in the axil 

 of a leaf; stamens nine to twelve in each flower. Fruit, much larger than in 

 the other sections, composed of six or nine ternate scales. Seeds consolidated 

 into a thick globose three-celled bony mass. This section includes only one 

 species. 



8. Juniperus drupacea, Labillardi^re. Greece, Asia Minor, Syria. See p. 141 7. 



Leaves |- to ^ in, long, widely spreading, very rigid, sharp-pointed ; upper 

 surface with a broad green midrib, deeply furrowed near the base, and two 

 white bands, which are much broader than the marginal green bands. 



II. Leaves [a) all scale-like and appressed, or [b) all acicular, or [c) often mixed; 

 never jointed at the base, always adnate to the branchlet. No distinct 

 leaf-buds. Flowers moncecious or dicEcious, terminal on short axillary 

 branchlets. 

 § 3. Sabina, Spach, in Ann. Sci. Nat. xvi. 291 (1841). 



Branchlets in most species like those of a Cupressus, terete or tetragonal in 

 section, densely clothed with closely appressed imbricated scale-like leaves, 

 which are usually in four ranks in decussately opposite pairs, or rarely ternate in 

 six ranks, oval or triangular, adnate in the basal half, more or less free at the 

 apex, glandular or marked with a depression on the back, entire or denticulate 

 in margin. 



In young plants of all the species, on occasional branches of adult trees of 

 most species, and on all the branches of two species, acicular foliage occurs : — 

 leaves linear-lanceolate, sharp-pointed, nearly appressed or more or less spread- 

 ing, in whorls of threes or in opposite pairs, whitened on the ventral surface. 



Staminate flowers with usually the stamens in opposite pairs, rarely ternate. 

 Pistillate flowers, with usually opposite or rarely ternate scales, each of which 

 bears one or two ovules. Fruit, with usually opposite or rarely ternate scales. 

 Seeds, one to twelve, generally ovoid, with a broad base marked by a large 

 hilum, 



A. Leaves on adult plants always acicular. 



9. Juniperus recurva, Buchanan- Hamilton. Himalayas. See p. 14 19. 



A tree with curved and pendulous branchlets. Leaves in threes, loosely 

 appressed, ^ to ^ in, long, sharp -pointed, greyish green on the dorsal surface, 

 which is channelled in the middle line near the base. 



10. Juniperus squamata, Buchanan-Hamilton. Afghanistan, Himalayas, China, 



Japan, Formosa. See p. 1420. 



A prostrate shrub. Leaves in threes, appressed or spreading, broader and 

 shorter than in J. recurva, green on the dorsal surface, which is channelled from 

 the base to near the apex, 



J. procumbens, Siebold, is similar, but has larger leaves, which like the 

 branchlets are glaucous in tint. See p. 1422, 



