. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Juniperus] CXIV. CONIFEEiE 695 Inner arid ranges and valleys of the Nortli-West Himalaya, as far as Kepal, 5-14,000 ft. Fl. in summer, the fr. ripens in Sept. of the second year.—Afghanistan. Persia. Mascat. Nearly allied to and probably not different from J, excelsa^ M. Bieb., a tree of the mountains of Asia Minor and Syria, with which it was identified in my old Forest Flora. 4. J. WallicMana, Hook. f. & Thoms.—Syn. J. pseudo-sahina,, Fis
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Juniperus] CXIV. CONIFEEiE 695 Inner arid ranges and valleys of the Nortli-West Himalaya, as far as Kepal, 5-14,000 ft. Fl. in summer, the fr. ripens in Sept. of the second year.—Afghanistan. Persia. Mascat. Nearly allied to and probably not different from J, excelsa^ M. Bieb., a tree of the mountains of Asia Minor and Syria, with which it was identified in my old Forest Flora. 4. J. WallicMana, Hook. f. & Thoms.—Syn. J. pseudo-sahina,, Fisch. & Mey. •, Hook. f. in Fl. Brit. Ind. y. 646. Himalaya 9-15,000 ft., extending into the dry region of Western Tibet and Kunawar. In the North-West a large gregarious shrub, covering extensive areas at the limit of tree vegetation, associated with^ the alpine Birch and Wiododendro?i campmiulatum. In the inner ranges of Silvkim, a tree with spreading branches, attaining 60 ft. {the hlach Juniper^ Hook. Him. Journ. ii. 55). Foliage bushy, the scale-like 1. opposite, decussate, ovate, in 4 rows, so as to make the branchlets 4-sided, more or less keeled at the back, apex not closely appressed. Berrieb ovoid, acute, |-^ in. long, blue when ripe, seed 1. Cryptomeria japonica, Don. China and Japan. A stately fast-growing tree with dark green foliage, heart-wood fragrant, dark reddish-brown. L. sharply quad- rangular, the lower edge decurrent upon the branch. Fl. monoecious, male catkins l~l in. long, clustered at the ends of branchlets, anther-cells 3-5 at the base of scales, pollen globose. Cones globose at the ends of branchlets, the axis often growing out into a leafy shoot. Supporting scales acuminate, half adnate to the ovuliferous scales, ovules erect, 2 at the base of each scale. Mature cones | in. diam., scales woody pectinate, and persistent after the seeds have fallen. Seeds -J-J in. long, compressed angular, with a narrow sharp edge. This valuable tree has been
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