180 CYPRESSES AND JUNIPERS 
conveys a high compliment, since the Greek word 
implies something worth living for. 
It is more often than anything little more than a 
twenty-foot high, many-stemmed shrub, though two 
at Hampton Court, Herefordshire, planted by the 
late J. H. Arkwright, have risen to twice that height. 
Its branches, except perhaps the lower ones, rise 
vertically, and the branchlets also, like some varieties 
of the C. Lawsoniana—to wit, the Allumi and Erecta 
Viridis—also assume this vertical habit. 
Like the C. Lawsoniana and the Occidentalis it 
breaks away in many (over twenty) polymorphous 
strains—coloured, dwarf, fastigiate, and pendulous 
with whip-cord branchlets. Juvenile and coloured 
forms are fully dealt with in detail by our more 
luminous and voluminous authorities. 
The leaves are described as without white streaks 
on the under-surface by Elwes and Henry, but are 
by Bean notified as with white streaks. The one we 
have before us here shows white stomata scattered 
in the middle of the leaf on the under-side. They 
are further described as in decussate pairs, but do not 
show to the tyro much difference from the dorso- 
ventral and lateral leaf arrangement. Down the 
middle of the leaf there runs a depression, or groove, 
which is explained as of glandular cause and effect. 
The lateral leaves curve away from the centre. The 
leaves are triangular in shape, with a little sharp 
point at their ends. The cones are always erect and 
not deflexed ultimately, as in other Thuyas. They 
are of a soft blue substance at first, and showing six 
or seven horn-like protuberances. As age advances 
they become harder and more ligneous, and eventually 
gape apart as do most of the Thuyas. 
THujopsis DOLABRATA, or JAPANESE THUYA.— 
The T. Dolabrata, by its greater breadth and boldness 
