130 JUNIPERUS, OR 



and three-quarters of a line broad. Branches horizontal, bent 

 downwards at the points ; branchlets numerous, short, angular, 

 thickly clothed with leaves, and of a glaucous green colour. 

 BeiTies large, globular, nearly smooth, of a deep yellowish- 

 brown colour, covered all over with a glaucous bloom, and 

 with a few tubercles slightly jutting out aU round, and from 

 four to five lines long and the same broad. 



This kind, according to Mr. Webb, forms a large tree in the 

 warm valleys on the Island of Teneriffe and Canary Islands, 

 with a stem four or five feet in girth ; it, however, is subject to 

 great variation in size and appearance, being found at eleva- 

 tions varying from 1000 to 5000 feet on those islands; at the 

 latter of which elevations it becomes a bush, with its leaves 

 very much reduced in size, and partially imbricated ; while in 

 the lower and more sheltered situations it becomes a large tree, 

 with long, slender, drooping branches and branchlets, little 

 divided, but furnished with spreading distant leaves in threes ; 

 the fruit-bearing ones being covered with small scale-like leaves 

 only one line long. It is found plentiful on the Island of Tene- 

 riffe and the '^Canary Islands, where the inhabitants call it 

 " Cedro," the French " Cade," and the Spanish " Enebro." 



There is the following variety : — 



JuNIPEEUS Cedrus brevifolu, Gordon, the Azores Jumper. 



Syn. Juniperus Oxycedrus brevifolia, Eochta. 



„ „ rufescens brevifolia, Endlicher. 



„ „ brevifolia, Parlatore. 



Leaves in threes, somewhat loosely and partially imbricated, 

 Hnear-falcate, or somcAvhat oval, more or less rounded and 

 slightly pungent at the apex, very glaucous, and from two and 

 a half to four and a half lines long, and one line broad. 

 Branches very numerous, terete and spreading ; branchlets short, 

 spreading and angularly three-sided. Berries globular, solitary, 

 reddish-brown, and from two and a half to three lines long, and 

 the same broad. 



