152 JUNIPERUS, OR 



No. 25. JuNiPERUS SQUAMATA, Don, the Scaly-leaved Nepal 



Juniper. 



Syn. Juniperus squamosa, Hamilton. 

 „ „ dumosa, Wallich. 



„ „ Lambertiana, Wallich. 



„ „ rigida, Wallich (not of Thunberg). 



„ „ ? Wallichiana, Hooker. 



Leaves in threes, closely imbricated, ovate-oblong, more or 

 less acute, inflexed at the point as if obtuse ; the withered ones 

 persistent, with very long points, and adhering to the branches 

 like scales. Branches numerous, creeping, and a little set up 

 at the points; branchlets stiff, very numerous, and thickly 

 covered all over with foliage. Berries ovate-obtuse, or ovate- 

 oblong, very glossy, varying from light-blue to nearly black, 

 one-seeded, with three or four opposite scales about the centre, 

 and two small ones near the top, which is umbilicate and fur- 

 rowed ; on old plants tlie upper branches have closely-imbri- 

 cated, cypress- like leaves, while on the lower branches of young 

 plants they are in whorls of three, linear and lanceolate, acute, 

 stiff, more or less spreading, green on the upper side, white be- 

 low, but varying in some so as to leave both sides of the foliage 

 bright green. 



A large, dense, prostrate, much-branched shrub, growing two 

 or three feet high, in Nepal, and on the Bhotan Alps! In 

 Cashmere and the adjacent regions it is common at all ele- 

 vations, particularly on the Indian face of the Himalayas from 

 11,000 to 13,000 feet. It is also common on the snowy ranges 

 of Kamaon and Gurhwal, and penetrates into the heart of the 

 Himalayas, to "Eimkin," at an elevation of 14,500 feet; its 

 upper limits is 15,000 feet, and its lowest 9,000 feet, but is in 

 greatest abundance between 12,000 and 13,000 feet. It also 

 grows on the Choor mountains, where it forms extensive beds, 

 overlaying the high, tabular masses of granite, which occur on 

 or near the top, at an elevation of 12,000 feet, where it has the 

 form of a i large creeping bush, covered with its large, glossy. 



