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to T. gigantea {T. Lobhi), Prod, xvi., p. 457 ; but from this it differs 

 in many points. It is. a much smaller tree, the branchlets are less 

 flattened, the leaves thicker and more obtuse; they are, moreover, 

 marked with a gland above, and by whitish lines beneath, as in 

 Thuiopsis. It is also deserving of notice, that while the foliage and 

 young growth of T. Lobbi, in common with all the American 

 Thuias, emit a powerful aromatic fragrance when bruised or rubbed, 

 T. Standisldi gives out an odour more like that of the bruised 

 foliage of Biota orientalis or Thuiopsis dolabrata, which is anything 

 but agreeable. 



Thuia Wareana. — A low tree, of dense habit and conical out- 

 line, with short horizontal or ascending branches, having the 

 ultimate branches clustered towards their extremities, and frequently 

 erect and parallel as in Biota. The branchlets and foliage are of 

 a much deeper green than either T. plicata or T. oecidentalis, of 

 the latter of which it is probably a variety. 



It is a useful hardy evergreen of neater habit and better colour 

 than the common form. It is said to have originated in the Nursery 

 of Mr. Ware, at Coventry. 



V.— THUIOPSIS (Siebohl $■ Zuccarini). .The Japanese Thuia. 



Thuiopsis is a beautiful Japanese tree, of which there is but . one 

 species, distinguished by the following characters : — 



The primary branches are verticillate, spreading, and sub- 

 pendulous ; the secondary ones distichous (produced laterally 

 only) ; the branchlets frondosq, and much divided. 



The leaves are in four rows, in opposite pairs, those above 

 and below closely appressed to the stem, the lateral ones 

 spreading; they are coriaceous in texture, variable in form, 

 convex, and bright green above, concave and silvery beneath. 



The strobiles or cones are small sub-globose bodies, about 

 seven-tenths of an inch in diameter, and composed of from 

 eight to ten ligneous scales, each bearing five winged seeds. 



Thuiopsis from Ovla (thuia\ and o-^lq (opsis) "appearance/ 5 from 

 its resemblance to the Thuia, in which genus it is now included 

 by Mr. Bentham and Sir J. D* Hooker {Gen. Plant, vol, iii., p, 427). 



