376 SCIADOPITYS, OR 



Gen. SCIADOPITYS. Siebold. The Parasol Pine. 



Flowers monoecious, or male and female on the same plant, 

 but separate, the male ones terminal, the female solitary, and 

 growing from among the scaly buds. 



Cones elliptic or cylindrical, obtuse at the ends, large, and 

 solitary. 



Scales persistent, leathery, thin, regularly imbricated, wedge- 

 shaped, half-]'ounded on the upper part, and with, a short bractea 

 adhering. 



Seeds elliptic, compressed, seven under each scale, with a 

 leathery covering, tapering into a membranaceous wing, attenu- 

 ating to the base and apex. 



Leaves in whorls like an umbrella, persistent, without any 

 foot-stalks, linear, flat, and obtuse-pointed. 



Name, derived from ' skidos,' shade, and ' pitys,' pine, the 

 Parasol Pine. 



SciADOPlTYS VERTiciLLATA, Siebold, the Whorl-leaved 

 Sciadopitys, or Parasol Fir. 



Syn. Pinus verticillata, Siebold. 

 „ Taxus verticillata, Thunberg. 



Leaves long, linear, or somewhat falcate, smooth, entire, 

 alternate^ persistent^ without any foot-stalks, and tapering to 

 an obtuse point, concave and ribbed on the under side, in close 

 tufts of from thirty to forty in number on the ends of the shoots 

 in a sort of whorl in the form of an extended parasol, and re- 

 maining on the branches for three or four years. Branches 

 alternate, or in whorls, with the young shoot cylindrical, and 

 without leaves, except towards the top, but covered with per- 

 sistent scales, which when old fall ofiF, and leave the adult 

 branches marked by their scars ; buds terminal, vertically nu- 

 merous, and scaly, at first imbricated, but afterwards scattered, 

 Male and female flowers on the same plant ; the male catkins 

 terminal, somewhat globular ; female, solitary, and growing from 



