1070 ARBORETUM Et’ FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
North America, at Nootka Sound. Height 20 ft. to 30 ft. Introduced in 
1796, and frequent in collections. 
A very branchy, spreading, light green tree. Branches crowded, covered 
with a reddish brown bark ; branchlets dense, often divided, pectinate com- 
pressed. Ee ; 
2 3. T. cuite'Nsis Lamb. The Chili Arbor Vite. 
Identification. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 2. p. 128., No. 62. 
Synonyme. Cupréssus thydides Pavon MSS. 
Engraving. Our fig. 2110, in p. 1110. 
Spec. Char.,§c. Branchlets jointed, spreading, compressed. Leaves ovate- 
oblong, obtuse, somewhat 3-angled, imbricated in 4 rows, adpressed, naked, 
furrowed on both sides. Cones oval-oblong ; scales 4, compressed, elliptic, 
obtuse. Seeds winged at the apex, entire. (Lam’.) A beautiful dark 
green spreading tree. Chili, on the Andes. Height 30 ft. to 40 ft. Not 
yet introduced. 
§ i. Biota. 
£4. 7. orrenta‘tis L. The Oriental, or Chinese, Arbor Vite. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., 1422.; N. Du Ham., 3. p. 11. 
Engravings. Dend. Brit., t, 149.; and our fig. 1992. 
Spec. Char., §c. Branchlets 2-edged. Leaves imbricated in 4 rows, ovate- 
rhomboid, adpressed, furrowed along the middle. Cones elliptic ; interior 
scales blunt, mucronate beneath the apex. (Willd.) A low evergreen tree, 
or fastigiate shrub. China and Siberia, in rocky situations ; and also on 
the mountains of Japan. Height 18 ft. to 20ft. Introduced in 1752. 
Flowering in May, and ripening its brown cones in the following autumn. 
Varieties. 
£ T.0. 2 stricta Hort. T. pyramidalis Baum. Cat. ed. 1837; and the 
plate of this tree in Ard. Brit., 1st ed, vol. vili—More fastigiate than 
the species in its habit of growth. 
« T. 0.3 tatérica. T. tatérica Lodd. Cat. ed. 1836; J. Waredna Booth 
Cat. 1839.—Leaves, and the entire plant, rather smaller than in the 
species. 
1992. T. orientalis. 
A low tree or large shrub; distinguishable, at first sight, from the American 
