268 DR. M. T. MASTERS ON 
WIDDRINGTONIA. 
Endlieher, Cat. Hort. Vindob. i. p. 209 (1842); Synopsis 
Coniferarum (1847), p. 31; Lindley and Gordon, in Journ. 
Hort. Soc. Lond. v. (1850) p. 205; Knight and Perry, (Rauch) 
Synopsis (1850), p. 13; Carriére, Traité Général des Coniféres, 
ed. 1 (1855), ed. 2 (1867) ; Gordon, Pinetum (1858), p. 332, 
ed. 2 (1875); Henk. et Hochstetter, Syn. der Nadelholz (1865), 
p. 292; Harvey, Genera of S. African Plants, ed. 2, Hooker 
(1868). The foregoing authors have for the most part followed 
Endlicher without adding much to our knowledge of the genus. 
Additional information was supplied by the following botanists :— 
Schlechtendal, in Linnza, xxxiii. p. 339, tab. 1 (1864) ; Parlatore, 
in DC. Prodr. xvi. rr. p. 442 (1868); Masters, in Journ. Linn. Soc., 
Bot. xxx. p. 16 (1895). 
Thuie sp., Linn. Mant. p. 125. 
Cupressi spp., Thunberg, Fl. Cap. p. 500. 
Juniperi spp., La Marck, Eneye. i. (1786). 
Schubertia, Sprengel, Syst. Veg. iii. p. 890 (1826). 
Pachylepis, Brongniart, in Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. r. (1833) xxx. 
p. 189, non Lessing. 
Parolinia, Endl. Gen. Supp. i. 1372 (1840). 
Callitridis spp., Benth. in Benth. et Hook. Gen. PI. iii. (1880) 
p. 424; Eichler, in Engler u. Prantl, Natürl. Pflanzenfamilien, 
Teil ii. p. 93 (1889). 
The genus consists of a small number of xerophytie, monoicous 
trees, valuable for their timber and for their fragrant resin, which 
exudes especially from their cone-scales. 
They occur in the mountainous districts of the Cape Colony, 
from west to east in Kaffraria, Natal,in Mozambique and in Central 
Africa, and it appears probable that additional species will be 
discovered in the mountainous districts of South and of Central 
Africa. 
The species at present known are:— 
1. W. yuN1PEROrDES, Endlicher, Synops. Conif. (1847) p. 32 ; 
Schlechtendal, in Linnea, xxxiii. p. 339 (1864), tab. 1; Parlatore, 
in DC. Prod. xvi. 11. (1868) p. 442, aliorumque. 
Under this, are included as synonyms :— 
Cupressus juniperoides, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1422. 
Cupressus africana, Miller, Dict. ed. 8. 
