THE " CEDAR OF GOA.' 



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at the apex. Cones scattered, stalked (stalk 5-6 mill, long), 

 subglobose, about 1 cent, diam., brown, covered with a glaucous 

 bloom. Scales woody, subangular, rugose, with a markedly pro- 

 jecting umbo, and the tip of the otherwise connate bract free, 

 somewhat leafy and recurved. Seeds numerous, obovate, oblong, 

 winged, brown, with a gland near the base. 



This description is taken from specimens sent to me by Prof. 

 Henriques from Bussaco. The Cedar of Goa, as cultivated since 

 1750 at Kilmacurragh and in many British and Continental 

 gardens, is much more loosely branched, but the form of the 

 leaves, the male catkins, and the cones are nearly identical in 

 form, though differing in their smaller size from the Portuguese 

 specimens. A specimen sent to me by M. Naudin as C.pendula 

 glauca is also of loose open habit, and has cones as much as 

 15 mill, in diameter. 



C. torulosa, from the mountains of North- West India, differs 

 from C. lusitanica, more especially in its leaves, which are 

 shorter, thicker, blunter, and more convex. The convex sides of 

 the lateral leaves, which are inflexed at the tips, give the branchlets 

 a beaded appearance, from which the species takes its name. 

 The cones are more frequently clustered, subsessile or very 

 shortly stalked, less glaucous, whilst the bract and the umbo of 

 the scale are much less prominent. 



C. sempeevieens, though very variable, is distinguishable 

 from C. lusitanica by its ultimate branchlets, which are less 

 angular, its leaves less convex, smaller and about 1 mill, 

 long. The cones have generally shorter stalks, and are usually 

 larger, more oblong, greyish or brownish, often shining, but not 

 glaucous. The bosses of the scales are generally pyramidal 

 and pointed, and the tips of the bracts are not so leafy as in 

 C. lusitanica. 



