Archive image from page 330 of The cultivated evergreens; a handbook. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada cultivatedevergr00bail Year: 1923 ( ENUMERATION OF CONIFERS £41 -Two species in southern and western discovered this tree in China in 1702.)- Cliina and in Formosa. A. Leaves of fertile branches spiny-pointed, 1-2 inches long: cones about 1 Yi inches long 1. C lanceolata AA. Leaves of fertile branches obtusish, 3/<4 inch long: cone about /i inch long 2. C Konishii 1. C. l
Archive image from page 330 of The cultivated evergreens; a handbook. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada cultivatedevergr00bail Year: 1923 ( ENUMERATION OF CONIFERS £41 -Two species in southern and western discovered this tree in China in 1702.)- Cliina and in Formosa. A. Leaves of fertile branches spiny-pointed, 1-2 inches long: cones about 1 Yi inches long 1. C lanceolata AA. Leaves of fertile branches obtusish, 3/<4 inch long: cone about /i inch long 2. C Konishii 1. C. lanceolata, Hook. (C sinen- sis, R. Br.). Fig. 61. Tree attaining 80 feet in height: leaves linear- lanceolate, with broad decurrent base, sharply pointed, finely serru- late, light green and shining above and with 2 broad whitish bands beneath, 13-232 inches long: cones 1-2 inches long. Southern, central, and western China.—Introduced to Great Britain in 1804 by Wm, Kerr and again in 1844 by Fortune. Hardy as far north as Pennsylvania in sheltered positions but injured in very severe winters. Handsome tree < with horizontally spreading branches pendulous at the extremities. If cut down or killed back by frost, it sprouts from the stump and forms bushy specimens. 2. C. Konishii, Hayata. Tree to 100 feet, with longitudinally furrowed cinnamon-brown bark becommg grayish-white with age: leaves on fertile shoots lanceolate, falcate, obtusish, J/2-1 inch long, grayish-green with 2 broad white bands beneath and 2 narrow stomatic bands above, on young plants linear-lanceolate, to IJ/2 inches long, spiny-pointed and without stomatic lines above: cones ovoid, -l inch long; scales rounded with a sharp mucro at the apex. Formosa.— Introduced to the Arnold Arboretum by E. H. Wilson in 1918 and growmg well in California and Florida. Young plants differ little from those of the preceding species. 61. Cunninghamia lanceolata. 18. ARAUCARIA, Juss. (Synonym: Domheya, Lam.). ARAUCARIA
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