CHAP. CXHI.

CON I'FIS ILE. THu'jA.

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Spec. Char., $c. Leaves alternate, 3-rowed, trigonous, awl-6haped. Cones obovate. Scales cuneate,tubercled. Branches filiform, erect. {Lamb. Pin.) A native of China, whence Sir Geo. Stauntonbrought 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 crcnated. Seedswinged at the apex. {Lamb.)

5 7. T. pe'ndula Lamb. The pendulous, or weeping, Arbor Vita;.Identification. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 2. t. 67.

Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 2. t. 67.; out fig. 2318. to our usual scale ; and fig. 2317. of thenatural size.

Spec. Char., tfc. Leaves opposite and de-cussating, spreading, lanceolate, mucronu-late, keeled, somewhat distant. Conesglobose. Scales convex, smooth. Branch-es filiform, pendulous. {Lamb. Pin., ii.t. 67.) Branches very long, hangingdown in the most graceful manner ; lightgreen. Cones globose, about the size ofa wild cherry, 6-valved ; valves roundish,very thick, fungous, externally convex,smooth. A native of Tartary, probably,

Mr. Lambert thinks, from that part of itwhich is included within the Chinese em-pire ; as it is nearly related to T. pensilis,which is known to come from that partof Tartary. Mr. Lambert’s plant was keptin the conservatory at Boyton; and hesays, 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 ofthe 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 beenstruck from the plants in the Chelsea Botanic Garden, and they havestood at Dropmore in the open air for two or three winters. There is acupressinous plant, without a name, evi-dently of the same species as that atChelsea, in the arboretum at Kew, which,in December, 1837, was upwards of 10 ft.high. Dr. Wallich, in 1830, is said tohave recognised this plant as a native ofNepal, but he does not appear to havegiven it a name. In 1835 it bore fruit,which, Mr. Smith informs us, closely re-sembled that of a ./uniperus ; and indeedwe have little doubt,- from the foliage ofthe plant, that it is likely to prove eithera Juniperus or a Cupressus ; at all events,we do not think it can be a Thuja,two-edged branchlets being in our opinionessential to that genus. But whether aCupressus or a Juniperus, or, what is notunlikely, worthy to be considered as adistinct genus, this plant deserves to beextensively cultivated, and introduced intoevery collection. Its long, slender, pen-dulous shoots bear no resemblance to thebranches 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 onefigured bv Lambert, since the berried appearance in Juniperus is merely

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