CHAP. CXIH.

coni'ferje. cupre'ssus.

2479

Engravings. Our Jigs. 2329. to 2331. of the natural size, from specimens taken from the plant in theHort. Soc, Garden, and showing the very different appearance that the shoots assume on the sameplant, and that even a young one.

Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves ovate-obtuse, imbricated in 4 rows. Galbulusglobose, pedicellate. Scales bossed. Branchlets round, knotted, divari-cate, crowded, spreading. (Lamb. Pin., ii. No. 59.) A tree, a native ofNepal, on the Bhotan Alps. Introduced in 1824; flowering in April.Description, $c. A beautiful, pyramidal, much-branched, evergreen treecovered with a brown bark. Branches crowded, ascending ; branchlets muchcrowded, round, divaricate, spreading, knotted, 2 in. to 6 in. long, very closelyimbricated with leaves. Leaves small, ovate-obtuse, convex, smooth, imbri-cated in 4 rows, adpressed, green; adult ones persistent, and falling off,

with the bark. Only young male catkins seen : these numerous on thesummit of the smaller branchlets, club-shaped, tetragonal, imbricated. Gal-bulus globose, on a very short scaly pedicel, pitch-black, of a glaucous hue;scales trapezoidal, bossed in the middle, thick, woody. (Lamb.) Bound byDr. Royle on the Himalayas, at 11,500 ft. above the level of the sea; also inKunawar, on the borders of Chinese Tartary. Seeds were sent to Englandin 1824, and again in 1830, by Dr. Wallich ; and there is a plant in the Hor-ticultural Society’s Garden, which, 6 years planted, is now 6 ft. high. Thereare also young plants in the Fulham and several other London nurseries; inthe pinetum in the Chester Nursery, and in that at Elvaston Castle. As itappears tolerably hardy, and is very handsome, it well deserves a place incollections.

i 5. C. pe ndula Thunb. The weeping Cypress.

Identification. Thunb. FI. Japon., p. 265.: Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p 512. : Staunt. Embass., 2. p. 525.

Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., t. 66. F