V* I 
CUPRESSUS 
TORULOSA. 
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Identification.— CUPRESSUS TORULOSA, Don, Prodr. FI., Nep., p. 55 (1825); Lambert, Genus Pinus, ed. 2, ii. p. 713 (1828); Loudon, 
Arboretum, iv. p. 2478 (1838); Lorbes, Pinet. Woburn., p. 189 (1839); Spach, Hist. Hat. VCg. Phaner., xi. p. 329 (1842); 
Loudon, Encycl. of Trees, p. 1076 (1842); Hoffmeister, in Bot. Zeit., p. 185 (1846); Endlicher, Syn. Conif, p. 57 (1847); 
Lindley and Gordon, in Journ. Hort. Soc., v. p. 206 (1850); Knight, Syn. Conif., p. 19 (1850); Lawson, Abietince, 
p. 62 (1851); Paxton, Flower Garden, i. p. 167 (1851); Flore des Serres, v ii. p. 192 (1852); Carriere, Traitd Gen. des 
Conif., p. 117 (1855); Gordon, Pinetum, p. 69 (1858), and Supplement, p. 26 (1862); Henkel and Hochstetter, Synop. 
d. Nadelholzer, p. 233 (1865). 
Engravings. — Twigs and Cones. —Loudon, Arboretum ( loc. cit .), fig. 2329-2331 ; Flore des Serres foe. cit.); Paxton’s Flower Garden ( loc. cit.), 
fig. 105 ; Loudon, Encycl. of Trees (loc. cit.), fig. 1999-2001. 
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Specific CharaSler. —C. coma strida ramis adscendentibus, ramulis cylindricis torulosis foliis arete 
adpressis acutiusculis carinatis, strobilis globosis vel obovatis odto-peltatis squamis umbonatis. 
Habitat in Bhotan et Nepaul. 
A cylindrico-pyramidal or flame-shaped tree, like the Lombardy Poplar, with ascending branches and 
branchlets very closely packed together [see fig. 10 at the end], very much branched, the branch- 
lets slender, twisted, from 2 to 6 inches long, everywhere closely imbricated with 
leaves, and with the trunk and branches covered with a brown and deciduous bark. 
The twigs grow somewhat straight and subparallel, without many side branchlets. 
Fig. 1 represents a twig of a young tree, 
and fig. 2 a portion of same magnified; fig. 3 
a twig of an old tree, and fig. 4 the same 
magnified. When young, the leaves are 
slightly spreading, not much adpressed ; when 
older, the leaves are so closely fitted to the 
stem that the branchlets look like stiff pieces 
of beaded wire. The leaves are then minute, 
ovate, obtuse, convex, very smooth, imbricated 
quadrifariously, all adpressed, green, the older Flg ' 3 ' 
ones persisting until they scale off with the bark. The male catkins [fig. 5, fig. 6 magnified] form small 
tetragonal imbricated clubs, about a third of an inch in length, at the end of the small branchlets, usually 
in great numbers when flowering; the anthers, three or four 
in number, are attached to the base of the under side of the 
scale [fig. 7]. The strobili are odtopeltate [fig. 8], ligneous, 
thick, globose, borne on a short scaly pedicel, from half an 
inch to an inch in length; the scales are eight in number, 
peltate, trapeziform, with a very slight transverse curved umbo, 
terminating in a slight spine, the original termination of the leaf out of which the scale has been formed; 
[ 2 3 ] a piceous 
Fig. 
Fig. 2 . 
Fig. 4 . 
Fig. 8 . 
