CUPRESSUS, the CYPRESS-TREE, a genus of the monoecia monodelphia class. The calix of the male is a scale of the amentum; it has no corolla; and the antheræ have no filaments: The calix of the female is a strobilus, and the squama contains a single flower; it has no corolla; the stylus is a concave point; and the nut is angular. The species are four, none of them natives of Britain.