LIST OF CONIFERS AND TAXADS. 



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1. C. japonica, Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. 166, f. 1, t.l3 (1841) ; 

 Parlatore, 438 ; Yeitch, 219 ; Gard. Chron. 1845, p. 344 ; Beissner, 

 142^ figs. ; Masters in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 498. 



Sr^fom'MS : — Cupressus japonica, Linn. f. ; Taxodium japonicum, 

 Brongn. ; Gnjptomeria Fortunei, Koch. 



Yaeieties : — elegans, Beissner, 145, fig., a form in which the 

 shape of the primordial leaves is retained. Lobbi, introduced from 

 Buitenzorg Garden by T. Lobb. Garden forms : jSTAna, ahaucarioides, 



SPIRALIS, EASCIATA, otc. etc. 



Introduced from Shanghai by Fortune in 1845. Mountains of 

 Japan and China. 



CUNNINGHAMIA, R. Brown; Bentham et Hooker, Genera 

 Plantarum, in. 435 ; Parlatore in DC. Prod. xvi. 2. 432 ; Eichler, 1. c. 

 85, fig. (Tribe Araucarie^.) 



Evergreen trees with flat leaves, monoecious flowers, stamens in 

 terminal umbellate clusters, anthers crested, lobes XDendulous, free, 

 three to each anther ; pollen spherical. Cones globular. Bracts 

 long, leafy, spreading at the points, adherent below to the seed-scale. 

 Seed-scales persistent, each with three winged pendulous seeds. 

 Cotyledons 2. 



1. C. sinensis, E. Brown ; Parlatore, 1. c. 432 ; Forbes, Pinetum 

 Wohurnense, tab. 57 (1839) ; Loudon, Encijcl. 1066, f. 1988 ; Veitch, 

 221 ; Hooker, Bot. Mag. 2743 ; Siebold et Zuccarini, PL Japan, ii. 

 tab. 203 ; Beissner, 197, fig. 49 ; Murray in Proc. Royal Hort. Soc. 

 1862, and in Pines and Firs of Japan (1863), 116, figs. 



Synonyms : — Belis jacidifolia, Salisbury (1807), is the oldest name, 

 but it has not been generally adopted. Pinus lanceolata, Lambert, 

 Pinus, ii. p. 59, t. 37. 



Variety : — glauca. 



Southern China. 



Cuprespikn^ata = Taxodium. 

 CupREssTELLATA = Fitzpoya. 



CUPRESSUS, Linngeus ; Bentham et Hooker, iii. 427 (including 

 Cham^cyparis and Retinospora of gardens) ; Eichler, 99, fig. (Tribe 



CUPRESSINE^.) 



True Cypresses are known by their scale-like, appressed adult 

 leaves, never in two ranks, monoecious flowers, male flowers spiked, 

 anthers crested — 4 or more, pollen globose ; cones globular or oblong 

 woody, ripening in the second year, with peltate scales and numerous 

 seeds to each scale. Cotyledons 2, leafy, longer than the primary 

 leaves, which are opposite, or in whorls of 4. 



The plants belonging to the subgenus Cham^cyparis ( = genua 



