PINETUM DAXICUM. 



267 



ounce. A similar section of a plank of Lihocedrus tetragona, of pre- 

 cisely the same size, is found to be of the same weight (Yeitch). 



4. LIBOCEDHUS.— Endl. Conif. 42; CI. Gay, Flor. Chil. v. 

 405 ; Carr. Conif. 84 ; Gord. Pin. 131. Dacrydii sp. Don aft. Endl. 

 Juniperi sp. Lamb. Pin. ed. 2, 116. Thuya sp. Hook. Lond. Journ. 

 of Bot. i. 571, ii. 199, and iii. 144 ; Poepp. Nov. Gen. et Sp. iii. 17 ; 

 Gord. Pin. 321 ; Henkel and Hochstetter, Syn. ISTadelh. 282 ; Carr. 

 Tr. Gen. Conif. ed. 2, 85 ; Pari, in D. C. Prodr. xvi. 2, 453 ; Brongn. 

 and Gris. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Tr. xviii. 140 ; Eichler in Engl, and 

 Prantl. Natiirl. Pflf . ii. s. 95 ; Hoopes, Evergreens, 309, f . 40 ; Watson 

 in King's Rep. v. 335 ; Bot. California, ii. 116 ; A. Murray in London 

 Garden, ii. 542 ; Yeitch, Manual Conif. 267 ; Beissner, Nadelholzk. 

 8, 27. 



Flowers monoecious, or male and female on the same plant, but 

 separate and terminal on different branches. Male catkins almost 

 cylindrical ; female ones solitary and globular. 



Cones oval, more or less obtuse, woody, and composed of from four 

 to six scales, which are flat, or slightly concave on the inner face. 



Scales in opposite pairs, face to face, and not overlapping ; the 

 lower ones small and mostly abortive ; the whole of them furnished 

 with a terminal small incurved point below the apex, and leathery in 

 texture. 



Seeds singly or in twos under each scale, the upper or larger 

 scales having each two seeds at the base, while the two lower or 

 smaller ones are either abortive or have but one seed each. Seeds 

 unequally two-winged. 



Cotyledons two. 



Leaves scale-formed, compressed in opposite pairs, and in four 

 imbricated rows, the under and the upper ones much the smallest. 



Name derived from lihanos, incense, and Cednis, the Cedar. 



All large evergreen trees, found in California, Chili, New Zealand, 

 New Guinea and China. 



L. ehilensis, Endlicher, Syn. Conif. 44 ; Lindl. and Gord. 

 Journ. Hort. Soc. v. 205 ; Knight, Syn. Conif. 15 ; CI. Gay, Fl. Chil. 

 V. 406 ; Carr. Man. des PI. iv. 321, and Tr. Gen. Conif. 89 ; Gord. 

 Pinet. 131, and suppl. 41. Thuya cuneata, Domb. Mss. Herb. 

 Mus. Par. Cupressus thijoides, Pav. Mss. (not Linn.). Thuya andina, 

 Poepp. Nov. Gen. et Spec. iii. 17, t. 220. Thuya ehilensis, Don in 

 Lamb. Pin. ed. 2, iii. 114 ; Loud. Encycl. of Trees, 1070 ; Hook. 

 Lond. Journ. of Bot. ii. 199, t. 4 ; Spach, Hist. Yeg. Phan. xi. 342. 

 Cupressus ehilensis, Gillies, ex. Gord. I.e. 



Has kept alive several years out of doors, sparingly covered. It 

 seems somewhat hardy, and the varieties are perhaps the same. 



Ij. c. argentea. A variety lighter coloured than the species. 



