Cephalotaxus 1471 



CEPHALOTAXUS PEDUNCULATA 



Cephalotaxus pedunculata, Siebold and Zuccarini, Fl. Jap. Fain. Nat. ii. io8 (1846), and Fl. Jap. ii. 



67, t. 132 (1870); Franchet et Savatier, Enum. PI. Jap. i. 473 (1875); Franchet, PL David. 



i. 292 (1884); Masters, in Gard. Chron. xxi. 113, fig. 22 (1884), and xxxiii. 228 (1903), and 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. {Bot.) xxii. 201 (1886), and xxvi. 545 (1902); Kent, Veitch's Man. Conif. 



114 (1900); Diels, Flora von Central China, 214 (1901). 

 Taxus Harringtonia, Knight, ex Forbes, Pin. Woburn. 217, t. 66 (1839); Loudon, Gard. Mag. xv. 



273 (1839), and Trees and Shrubs, 942 (1842). 

 Cephalotaxus Harringtonia, Koch, Dendrologie, ii. 2, p. 102 (1873). 



Cephalotaxus drupacea, Siebold and Zuccarini, vox. pedunculata, Miquel, Prol. Fl. Jap. 333 (1867). 

 Cephalotaxus drupacea, Siebold and Zuccarini, var. Harringtonia, Pilger, Taxacece, 102 (1903). 



A large shrub or small tree. Leaves on lateral branches, pectinate, spreading 

 either in one plane or in a V-shaped arrangement, straight or falcate, i^ to 2\ in. 

 long, tapering in the anterior third to an acute apex, which is often tipped with 

 a spine ; stomatic bands beneath each of sixteen to twenty-one lines, not so white 

 as in C. Fortuni. Staminate heads in clusters of two to five, or occasionally 

 solitary, on scaly peduncles, which are ^ to i in. in length. Fruit olive-green, 

 f to I in. long, ellipsoid, not contracted at the basal end, with a circular depression 

 at the apex from which arises a short mucro ; kernel similar in size and shape to 

 that of C. drupacea, but mottled light brown and slightly tuberculate on the surface. 



The following varieties have been described : — 



1. Var. sphceralis. Masters, in Gard. Chron. xxi. 113, fig. 23 (1884), and in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. {Bot.) xxii. 203, plate vii. (1886). 



Fruit smaller, globose, not depressed at the apex, which bears a long mucro. 

 This was described by Masters from a specimen growing in the Rev. J. Goring's 

 garden at Steyning ; and a shrub at Kew has also borne similar fruit. 



2. Var. fastigiata, Carriere, Prod, et Fix. Var. 44, fig. i (1865), and Conif. 717 

 (1867); Masters, in Gard. Chron. xxi. 113, fig. 20 (1884). 



Cephalotaxus Buergeri, Miquel, Prol. Fl. Jap. 333 (1867). 



Podocarpus koraiana, Siebold, in Ami. Soc. Hort. Pays-Bas, 1844, p. 34; Carribre, in Rev. Hort. 

 1863, p. 349, fig. 36; Maximowicz, Mil Biol vii. 563 (1870). 



A fastigiate form, similar to the Irish yew in habit ; branches and branchlets 

 directed vertically upwards ; leaves spreading radially on the branchlets. 



This handsome shrub appears to have originated in Japan, whence it was 

 introduced in 1861 into England, where it is perfectly hardy.^ It has never, so far 

 as is known, borne flowers either in Japan or in Europe ; and is always propagated 

 by cuttings. It frequently produces near the base lateral branches ^ with normal 

 foliage ; and grafts, that are taken from these branches, reproduce the ordinary form 

 of the species. 



1 Sargent, in Garden atid Fdrest, x. 391 (1897), states that it is not hardy in eastern New England, but there are good 

 plants near New York and Philadelphia. 



2 Figured by Masters, va. Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) xxvii. 245, fig. S (1889), and Gard. Chron. xxxiii. 227, fig. 96 (1903). 

 Cf. De Vries, Mutatioti Theory, no, fig. 16 (191 1), who instances these reverted branches as showing the phenomenon of 

 atavism by bud-variation. 



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