Japan Flora: Tree, closely related to the preceding; branchlets slender, flattened horizontally; leaves ascending, acuminate, deep green, with an obscure gland above, pale green and with a small white spot beneath, the lateral leaves broadly lanceolate, compressed hterally, the facial ones ovate- deltoid; cones globose, 6-7 mm. wide, 10- or 12-scaled, the scales with a triangular mucro on the depressed center; seeds narrowly obovoid to transversely elliptic, about 2 mm. long, the wing 4 mm. long. Mountains;

Honshu (Iwaki and Iwashiro westw. to Kii and Yamato), Kyushu; much planted for timber and grown extensively as an ornamental.