C U P R E S S U S TORULOSA.
m.—CUPRESSUS TORULOSA, Don, Prodr. Fl., Nep., p. 55 (1825) ; Lambert, Genus Pinus, ed. 2, ii. p. 713 (1828) ; Loudon,
Arboretum, iv. p. 2478 (1838) ; Forbes, Pinet. Woburn., p. 189 (1839) ; Spach, Hist. Nat. Vtg. Phaner., xi. p. 329 (1842) ;
Loudon, Encycl. of Trees, p. 1076 (1842); Hoffmeister, in Bot. Zeit., p. 185 (1846); Endlicher, Syn. Conif, p. 57 (1847);
Lindley and Gordon, in Journ. Hort. Soe., v. p. 206 (1850); Knight, Syn. Conif, p. 19 (1850); Lawson, Abietiiue,
p. 62 (1851); Paxton, Flower Garden, i. p. 167 (1851); Flore des Serres, vii. p. 192 (1852); Carrière, Traité Gén. des
Conif, p. 117 (1855); Gordon, Pinelum, p. 69 (1858), and Supplement, p. 26 (1862); Henkel and Hochstetter, Synop.
d. NadeUiolzer, p. 233 (1865).
—Twigs and Cones.—Loudon, Arboretum (!oe. eit), fig. 2329-2331 ; Flore des Serres (loc. cit.); Paxton's Flower Garden (loe. at.),
fig. 105 ; Loudon, Encycl. of Trees (loe. cit.), fig. 1999-2001.
Specific Character.—C. coma stricta ramis adscendentibus, ramulis cylindricis torulosis foliis ar6te
adpressis acutiusculis carinatis, strobilis globosis vel obovatis octo-pcltatis squamis umbonatis.
Habitat in Bhotan et Nepaul.
A cylindrico-pyramidal or flame-shaped tree, like the Lombardy Poplar, with ascending branches and
branchlets very closely packed together [see fig. 10 at the end], very much branched, the branchlets
slender, twisted, from 2 to 6 inches long, everywhere closely imbricated with
leaves, and with the trunk and branches covered with a brown and deciduous bark.
The twigs grow somewhat straight and subparallel, without many side branchlets.
Fig. 1 represents a twig of a young tree,
and fig. 2 a portion of same magnified; fig. 3
a twig of an old tree, and fig. 4 the same
magnified. When young, the leaves are
slightly spreading, not much adpressed ; when
older, the leaves are so closely fitted to the ;
stem that the branchlets look like stiff pieces | jj
of beaded wire. The leaves are then minute,
ovate, obtuse, convex, very smooth, imbricated
quadrifariously, all adpressed, green, the older '
ones persisting until they scale off with the bark. The male catkins [fig. 5, fig. 6 magnified] form small
tetragonal imbricated clubs, about a third of an inch in length, at the end of the small branchlets, usually
in great numbers when flowering; the anthers, three or four
in number, are attached to the base of the under side of the
scale [fig. 7]. The strobili arc oclopeltate [fig. 8], ligneous, ff \ . ^
thick, globose, borne on a short scaly pedicel, from half an v, y
inch to an inch in length; the scales are eight in number, Fi
peltate, trapeziform, with a very slight transverse curved umbo,
1 slight spine, the original termination of the leaf out of which the scale has been formed:
A piceous
terminating in ;
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