G. 100} CLASSIFICATION AND DESCRIPTION 191 
the trees) large, roundish, about 7 in. in diameter, erect, solitary ; 
seeds wedge-shaped, 1 to 2 in. long. A large, peculiar, beautiful, 
conical tree, with much the appearance of a cactus ; not fitted to our 
climate, although a few specimens may be found growing quite well 
near the coast south of Philadelphia. From the mountains of Chile. 
Genus 99. CUNNINGHAMIA. 
A genus of but one species. The cone-scales are very 
small, but the bracts are large, thick, and serrate. 
Cunninghamia Sinénsis, R. Br. 
(CUNNINGHAMIA.) Leaves 114 to 244 
in. long, flat, rigid, numerous, alter- 
nate, somewhat serrulate; the leaf 
gradually increases in width from 
the acuté tip to the base, which is 
decurrent on the stem and about 
¥g in. wide. Cones 1 to 114 in. long, 
nearly globular, erect, very persis- 
tent, mostly clustered, sessile; the 
scale is a mere transverse ridge, but 
the bract is large and prominent, like 
a triangular-hastate, dilated leaf. A 
very handsome tree, from China, C. Sinénsis. 
which does not succeed very well in this region except in protected 
situations. 
Gznvus 100. SCIADOPITYS. 
Cones elliptical or cylindrical, large, obtuse. Leaves 
evergreen, somewhat flattened, arranged in distant whorls 
around the stems, and spreading in all directions. 
Sciadépitys verticillata, S. and Z. 
(UMBRELLA-PINE.) Leaves 2 to 4 in. 
long, $ in. wide, linear, obtuse, smooth, 
persistent, sessile, entire, in whorls of 30 
to 40 at the nodes and extremity of the 
branches. Cones 3 by 1% in. Seales 
wedge-shaped, corrugated, overlapping, 
coriaceous, persistent; bracts adherent, 
8. vertioillata. broad, and smooth. A beautiful, tall, 
conical, slow-growing tree, with the branches whorled. Recently in- 
troduced; hardv in the New England States. 
