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globosis, squamis 4 basi connatis subsequalibus, duabus paulo majoribus, oblongis 
obtusis, dorso rugosis vel subtuberculatis, infra apicem umbone conico armatis. 
A magnificent tree, reaching a height of 140 feet, sometimes with a clear straight stem 
for 90 feet, and a diameter of 5} feet at 6 feet from the base, sometimes giving off 
long straggling branches nearer the base. The branchlets bearing the leafy shoots 
are rough with the woody remains of the squamiform leaves; those of the next higher 
order have spirally-arranged imbricating scales, with a suboval lower part adnate to 
the stem and an upper free triangular part with a subpungent apex; the ultimate 
branchlets have close-fitting decussate quadrate scales with a thickened apex ; a transverse 
section of these shows three longitudinal resin-canals traversing the interior of the tissue, 
a larger median and two smaller lateral ones. The male cones are solitary, terminal, 
oval, and consist of eight orbicular-oval, subapiculate anthers, subtended by two spreading 
apiculate bracts. The female cones are crowded 4-6 together on a short lateral shoot, 
are subglobose, about 2 in. long and 2-1 in. wide when open. Of the four scales two are 
slightly larger ; they are connate at the base, oblong-obtuse, more or less tuberculate on 
the back, with a conical spur below the tip; the two internal faces are flat, subconcave 
below, and smooth or longitudinally striated. Numerous hilar scars round the base of 
the scales indicate the position of the winged seeds. 
'The timber is of a pale reddish colour, of excellent quality, and easily worked. "The 
bark on old trees is of great thickness, consisting of layers annually shed and renewed. 
According to Mr. Whyte these fine trees are rapidly disappearing before the forest fires, 
the few left being confined to the upper ravines and valleys, the largest forest finding a 
comparatively secure habitat in the damp gorges of the Lutshenya valley. 
It is of interest to note that the most nearly allied species, JW. juniperoides, Endl., seems 
also to be dying out in the Cederberg Mts., for Parlatore says :—“ Olim vastas sylvas 
efformabat, nune minus obvia." 
Hab. Milanji, 6000-8000 ft. 
Mr. Whyte's discovery extends the range of the genus into Tropical Africa. 
Closely allied to JW. juniperoides of the Cederberg Mts., Cape Colony, but distinguished 
by its smaller fruits, with much less tuberculated scales, and also by the shape and internal 
structure of the leaf-scales on the ultimate branchlets. In W. Whytei these are quadrate, 
with a slightly larger median and two lateral longitudinal resin-canals; while in the 
Cederberg plant they are more rounded and have one very large canal traversing the 
centre. 
Bentham and Hooker regard Widdringtonia as a section of Callitris, a genus made up 
of the North-African C. guadrivalvis, Vent., the Australian genus Frenela, and the 
S-African and Mascarene Widdringtonia; Dr. Masters, however, in a recent paper 
(Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. p. 16) restores Widdringtonia, and I am glad to have the oppor- 
tunity of keeping it up. 
PopOCARPUS MILANJIANA, Rendle, sp. n. ? Arbuscula, foliis confertis lineari-lanceolatis, 
acutis, submucronatis, basi in petiolum perbrevem amgustatis et seepissime tortis, 
