434 Conifer@—Cedrus. 
its native habitats, where, by-the-by, it is gradually becoming 
very rare. It has been found on Mounts Lebanon, Taurus and 
Aman. There is a diminutive form called nana, and the 
variety argéntea has silvery foliage. 
2. C. Atlintica, syn. C. Africana and C. argéntea. African 
or Silver Cedar.—It is difficult to find distinctive characters for 
this and the foregoing, but the main difference lies in the 
foliage, which in this is shorter, usually less than an inch in 
length, and of a glaucous green or silvery hue. It isa large 
tree, from 80 to 120 feet high, of more erect pyramidal habit 
than that commonly assumed by the Lebanon Cedar in this 
country, rarely producing thick branches like the latter. It 
forms almost exclusively the arborescent vegetation of the 
upper plateaus of the Atlas mountains. It has been stated by 
M. Jamin that this and the foregoing are associated at Fougour, 
and that the Silver Cedar ripens its cones earlier than 
C. Libani. But this will be accepted with considerable doubt 
when we remember that the cones are two or three years 
coming to maturity, and that the same tree does not produce 
cones every season. 
3. C. Deodara. Deodar or Indian Cedar.—A pyramidal tree 
when young, with dense slender drooping branches thickly 
clothed with glaucous green leaves. In the young stage the 
Deodar is readily distinguished by the foregoing characters 
added to the longer leaves ; but according as the tree becomes 
older, these distinctions are less apparent, though perhaps 
never entirely obliterated. The cone of this form is said 
to shed its scales as soon as mature. This is undoubtedly one 
of the most clegant and graceful members of this beautiful 
order, and is now planted by hundreds of thousands. There are 
two or three rather striking varieties. C.D. robdsta has coarser 
larger leaves and thicker branches ; C. D. crassifolia has short 
thick rigid foliage; and C.D. viridis or tenusfolia is of slender 
habit, with bright green foliage. This species is a native of 
the mountains of North India, where it forms vast forests up to 
an elevation of 12,000 feet. It attains a height of 100 to 150 
feet, with a girth of 20 to 30 feet. It was introduced into 
England in 1822. 
Cunninyhrimia Sinénsis, the only known species of its 
genus, is a lofty evergreen tree with sessile lanceolate-acumi- 
nate coriaceous leaves, somewhat in the way of an Araucdria. 
Cones rather small, ovate, remarkable in having small almost 
