1470 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



always remains a spreading bush in this country, an old specimen at Kew being 

 about 10 ft. high and 15 ft. through, and clothed to the ground with luxuriant 

 dark green foliage. (A. H.) 



CEPHALOTAXUS FORTUNI 



Cephalotaxus Fortuni, W. J. Hooker, \n Bot. Mag. t. 4499 (1850); Masters, in Gard. Chron. xxi. 

 114, fig. 21 (1884), and xxxiii. 228 (1903), z.nd. /ourn. Linn. Soc. {Bot.) xxvi. 545 (1902); 

 Franchet, PL David, i. 292 (1884), and in Journ. de Bot. 1899, p. 265 ; Kent, Veitch's Man. 

 Conif. 113 (1900); Pilger, Taxacece, 103 (1903). 



A small tree or large shrub, attaining the same dimensions as C. drupacea. 

 Leaves on lateral branches pectinate and spreading in one plane, falcate, i^ to 3 in, 

 long, tapering gradually in the anterior third to an acuminate, usually spine-tipped 

 apex ; stomatic bands beneath conspicuously white, each of eighteen to twenty-one 

 lines, covering nearly the whole surface, the midrib and green margins being 

 narrower than in C. drupacea. Staminate heads, less than \ in. in diameter, on 

 scaly stalks, which are \ in. long. Fruit olive-green, about \\ in. long and | in. 

 in diameter, elongated ovoid, contracted towards the base, and broadest at the 

 rounded apex, which is tipped with a short elevated point, arising from a circular 

 depression ; kernel elongated ellipsoid, about i in. long and f in. wide, light 

 mottled brown, minutely tuberculate on the surface, rounded at the base ; upper 

 half with two sharp lateral edges which unite at the apex to form an apiculus. 



This species is occasionally monoecious,^ In the Cheshunt Nurseries,^ there 

 was a female plant, which bore fruit in 1862 and 1863, though no flowers were 

 borne on a staminate plant close by ; and it was supposed to have been pollinated 

 by a yew ; but the seeds were not sown, and may have been infertile. 



C. Fortuni is a native of China, occurring in the mountain woods of Szechwan, 

 Hupeh, Yunnan, Kiangsu, and Chekiang, where it usually grows as a large bush 

 in the shade of broad-leaved trees. It was discovered in the mountains south-west 

 of Ningpo,^ in 1848, by Fortune, who sent seeds to the Bagshot Nursery in that 

 year, which germinated freely. It is perfectly hardy in this country, and may 

 be seen in many collections of conifers, forming a spreading shrub, with handsome 

 foliage. The largest that we have seen is about 25 ft. high at Coldrenick. It 

 appears to be little known in America.* (A. H.) 



> Cf. Carrike, in Rev. Hort. 1878, p. 1 16, fig. 24, where a branch, bearing both male and female flowers, is depicted. 

 ^ Cf. Gard. Chron. 1863, p. 1062. 



3 Bretschneider, Hist. Europ. Bot. Disc. China, 502 (1908), points out that the statement usually made, that Fortune 

 found it in North China, is erroneous. 



* Sargent, in Garden and Forest, x. 391 (1897). 



