Japan Flora: Tree; branchlets slender, about 2 mm. wide, horizontally flattened; leaves scaly, appressed at maturity, obtuse, deep green above with a white spot beneath; cones globose, 10-12 mm. across, 8- to 10-scaled, each with a small mucro on the depressed back; seeds about 3 mm. long, narrowly winged. Mountains;

Honshu (Iwaki and Kan to Distr. vvestw.), Shikoku, Kyushu; much planted for timber and grown extensively as an ornamental.