126 GLYPTOSTROBUS, OK 



Gen. GLYPTOSTEOBUS. Endlicher. The Em- 

 bossed Cypress. 



Floiueo'S, monoecious, or male and female on the same plant, 

 but on separate parts, and terminal. 



Cones, egg-shaped, or oblong, and composed of several un- 

 equal-sized scales, all rising from the same point at the base, 

 and leathery. 



Seeds, two under each scale. 



Leaves, scattered and trigonal. 



Feme, derived from " Glypho," embossed, and " strobus," a 

 cone ; scales of the cone embossed on the face. 



A small tree, native of China, where it is called "Water Pine. 



GLYPTOSTROBUS HETEEOPHYLLUS, EndUclier, the Chinese 

 Water Pine. 



Syn. Taxodium nuciferum, Brongniart. 

 „ Japonicum, Denhardt. 



^, „ heterophyllum, Brongniart. 



Schubertia Japonica, Spach. 



„ nucifera, Denhardt. 

 Thuja lineata, Poi/ret. 



„ „ lavandulsefolia, Poiret. 

 „ pensilis, Staunton, 

 Cupressus nucifera, Hort. 

 „ Sinensis, Hort. 



Juniperus aquatica, Roxburgh. 



Leaves of various shapes, alternate, some scale-formed, small, 

 ovate, acute or obtuse pointed, sometimes much longer, closely 

 joressed and decurrent along the shorts, sometimes two-rowed, 

 regularly tortuose, and almost awl-shaped, from three to eight 

 lines long, slightly curved, blunt or somewhat acute at the 

 ends, and of a glaucous-gray colour, the lower ones near the 

 base of the shoots frequently very shortj scale-formed, somewhat 



