Trees and shrubs, hardy in the British isles . CrYPTOMERIA JAIONICA -t L .-; :it. [Fare p. 488, CRVPTOMERIA 439 tufted and bunchy at the ends ; the branchlets shorter and more erect ;leaves shorter. First sent to this country in 1853, ilong ^vith Sciadopjtys,by W. Lobb from the Java Botanic Garden, for which it had been obtainedby Siebold in 1825. Not so elegant as the type. Var. NANA.—A dwarf fomi with stunted branches. Plants at Kew fortyyears old are only 5 ft. high. The leaves are long^, not cur\ed as in the tvpe,and more Crtitomkria japonica. Var. SPIRALIS.—A dwarf form of
Trees and shrubs, hardy in the British isles . CrYPTOMERIA JAIONICA -t L .-; :it. [Fare p. 488, CRVPTOMERIA 439 tufted and bunchy at the ends ; the branchlets shorter and more erect ;leaves shorter. First sent to this country in 1853, ilong ^vith Sciadopjtys,by W. Lobb from the Java Botanic Garden, for which it had been obtainedby Siebold in 1825. Not so elegant as the type. Var. NANA.—A dwarf fomi with stunted branches. Plants at Kew fortyyears old are only 5 ft. high. The leaves are long^, not cur\ed as in the tvpe,and more Crtitomkria japonica. Var. SPIRALIS.—A dwarf form of remarkably dense habit, the leaves beinpmuch incurved and twisted, so that the branchlct often suggests wire by experience at Kew, it is apt to revert to the type. C. var. ELEGANS, Veitc/t. This, commonly known in gardens as Cryptomeria elegans, is a remark-able state, in which the foliage of the juvenile plant is retained aspect of the tree is totally different from ordinary C. japonica, althoughthe bark of the trunk has the same red-brown, j)ccling character. The leavesarc on the whole larger, much softer, more slender, more spreading and 440 CRYPTO:\rKRIA—CUDRANIA wider apart on the branchlct, than those of the tyjie ; they and the younjj^shoots beinjj a glaucous green in the summer, changing in autumn andwinter to a lironzy red, very distinct, and remarkable among evergreens atthat season. The leaves are reflexed at the tip, rather than incurved as inordinary C. japonica. The whole tree
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