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Spec. C/iar., Sfc. Leaves alternate, 3-rowed, trigonous, awl-shaped. Cones obovate. Scales cuneate, 

 tubercled. Branches filiform, erect. (Lamb. Pin.) A native of China, whence Sir Geo. Staunton 

 brought specimens to England, but there are no living plants in the country. 



Description, fyc. An elegant much branched tree. Branchlets crowded, filiform. Leaves scat- 

 tered, 3-rowed, spreading, trigonous, acutely keeled, mucronulate, 2 — 3 lines long, light green; 

 younger ones closer at the apex of the branchlets, shorter, adpressed. Galbulus pear-shaped, large, 

 many-valved : scales wedge-shaped, thick, woody, muricate externally; margin crenated. Seeds 

 winged at the apex. (Lamb.) 



2 7. T. pf/ndula Lamb. The pendulous, or weeping, Arbor Vitae. 



Identification. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 2. t. 67. 



Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 2. t. 67. ; our fig. 2318. to our usual scale ; and fig. £317. of the 

 natural size. 



Spec. Char., §c. Leaves opposite and de- 

 cussating, spreading, lanceolate, mucronu- 

 late, keeled, somewhat distant. Cones 

 globose. Scales convex, smooth. Branch- 

 es filiform, pendulous. {Lamb. Pin., ii. 

 t. 67.) Branches very long, hangin^ 

 down in the most graceful manner ; light 

 green. Cones globose, about the size of 

 a wild cherry, 6-valved ; valves roundish, 

 very thick, fungous, externally convex, 

 smooth. A native of Tartary, probably, 

 Mr. Lambert thinks, from that part of it 

 which is included within the Chinese em- 

 pire; as it is nearly related to T. pensilis, 

 which is known to come from that part 

 of Tartary. Mr. Lambert's plant was kept 

 in the conservatory at Boyton ; and he 

 says, writing in 1832, that it is perhaps the only one in Europe. He re- 

 ceived it from Messrs. Loddiges, and has since given it to Mr. Anderson of 

 the Botanic Garden, Chelsea, where it is kept in the green-house ; and, 

 when we saw it in 1837, it was about 6 ft. high. Cuttings have been 

 struck from the plants in the Chelsea Botanic Garden, and they have 

 stood at Dropmore in the open air for two or three winters. There is a 

 cupressinous plant, without a name, evi- 

 dently of the same species as that at 

 Chelsea, in the arboretum at Kew, which, 

 in December, 1837, was upwards of 10 ft. 

 high. Dr. Wallich, in 1830, is said to 

 have recognised this plant as a native of 

 Nepal, but he does not appear to have 

 given it a name. In 1835 it bore fruit, 

 which, Mr. Smith informs us, closely re- 

 sembled that of a, /uniperus ; and indeed 

 we have little doubt, from the foliage of 

 the plant, that it is likely to prove either 

 a Jimiperus or a Cupressus ; at all events, 

 we do not think it can be a ^Thuja, 

 two-edged branchlets being in our opinion 

 essential to that genus. But whether a 

 Cupressus or a Juniperus, or, what is not 

 unlikely, worthy to be considered as a 

 distinct genus, this plant deserves to be 

 extensively cultivated, and introduced into 

 every collection. Its long, slender, pen- 

 dulous shoots bear no resemblance to the 

 branches of any other species of Cupressinae ; and the fruit, though con- 

 sidered as that of a juniper, does not, in our opinion, present an insur- 

 mountable barrier to the identification of the Kew plant with the one 

 figured bv Lambert, since the berried appearance in Juniperus is merely 



