102 CUPBESSUS. 



No. 17. CaPBESSUS Whitleyana, Hort, the Upright Indian 



Cypress. 

 Syn. Cupressus sempervirens Indica, E. I. Comp. 

 Roylei, Garriire. 

 „ Australia, Low. 

 Doniana, Hort. 



Leaves on the younger plants in opposite pairs, distant, 

 spreading, and of a slight glaucous green coloui', awl-shaped, 

 ■widest at the base, decurrent, and tapering to a sharp point, 

 from two to four lines long, quite straight, and thinly set on 

 the branches, while those on the adult plants are very small, 

 oval, hlunt-pointed, closely imbricated, regularly in four rows, 

 thickened towards the point, and glossy green. Branches 

 numerous, erect, rather distant, and thin on the young plants, 

 but dense and closely compressed on the older ones, and form- 

 ing a pyramid. Branchlets erect, numerous, mostly pointing 

 upwards, thickly covered with foliage, and four-sided. Cones 

 large, globular, one inch in diameter, and very much resembling 

 those of the Common Cypress. Scales rather small, mostly 

 eight or ten in number, nearly flat, or slightly elevated in the 

 centre, with a very uneven surface, and short, blunt point. 

 Seeds large, with rather a broad wing surrounding the seed. 



A tall, pyramidal tree, according to Mr. Elphinstone, grow- 

 ing 100 feet high in the gardens of Kohaut and Peshawur. 

 The tall Cypress is also found plentiful in Nepal and the 

 Kooloo country, and very much resembles the Common Cypress 

 when old, but has not so close or dense a head when young. 



It is rather tender, but about as hardy as Cupressus toru- 

 losa, with which Indian travellers frequently confound it, 

 although one is upright, and the other pendulous when old. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



Cupressus cornuta, Carriere, the Horn-scaled Cypress. 



Of this kind nothing is known, beyond Carriere's figure 

 and description in the Revue Horticole, and that Professor Par- 

 latore considers it a monstrous form of Cupressus Goveniana, 

 with the scales on the cones drawn out and horn-shaped. 



