158 JUNIPERITS, OR 



Section III. CUPRESSOIDES. The Cypress-like Junipers. 



Leaves, in opposite pairs, four-rowed, small, scale-formed, and 

 closely imbricated in the adult plants. 



Fruit, more or less angular, and furnished with external 

 bracts, or humps. 



No. 28. JuNiPERUS Ohinensis, LinncBus, the Chinese Juniper. 

 Syn. Juniperus dimorpha, Roxburgh. 

 „ „ dioecia, MaJcoy. 



This species has the male and female flowers on separate 

 plants, and are very dissimilar in appearance. 



A — Male forrw. 

 Juniperus Chinensis mas, Linnceus. 

 Syn. Juniperus Thunbergii, Hooker. 

 „ „ dioecia, MaJcoy. 



„ „ dimorpha, Roxburgh. 



Leaves in whorls of three, lance-shaped, sharp-pointed, 

 channelled on the upper side, and convex below, sometimes 

 very glaucous or bright green, spreading, distant, stiflF, and 

 without any footstalks, densely clustered on the smaller stem- 

 shoots and bottom branches. Branches irregularly alternate, 

 and thickly placed on the stem, mostly pointing outwards, and 

 spreading, smaller ones straight, very thickly placed on the 

 lateral branches, and thickly covered with male flowers, of a 

 bright yeUow colour. 



B — Female form. 

 Juniperus Chinensis foemina, Linnceus. 

 Syn. Juniperus Eeevesiana, Rort. 

 „ „ flagelliformis. Reeves. 



I, „ struthiacea. Knight, 



„ „ fcBmina, Hort. 



„ „ cernua, Roxburgh. 



Leaves in twos, opposite, closely imbricated, very short, 

 scale-formed, ovate, slightly pointed, closely pressed over each 

 other in four rows, stem clasping at the base, with an oblong 

 sunken gland on the back, and pointing in the same direction 



