335 
P. virginiana, Miller—Bastard Pine, Cedar Pine, Jack Pine, 
Jersey Pine, New Jersey Pine, Nigger Pine, Oldfield Pine, Poor 
Pine, Poverty Pine, River Pine, Scrub Pine, Second-growth Pine, 
Short Pine, Short-leaved Pine, Shortschat Pine, Shortschucks, 
Spruce Pine, Yellow Pine. 
A tree usually 30-50 ft. high with a short trunk 12-18 in. in 
diameter, but occasionally over 100 ft. high, with a trunk 3 ft. 
through. The leaves are in pairs, rigid, twisted, and 14-24 in. 
long. The cones are solitary or in pairs, usually midway along 
the season’s growth, oblong or conical, 1-24 in. long and 1-1} in. 
wide when expanded, and each scale is terminated by a sharp 
prickle. It is widely distributed in Eastern N. America from 
to Southern Alabama. The wood is light, soft and brittle, the 
orange or brownish heartwood being greatly in excess of the 
yellowish sapwood. Although often knotty and only suitable 
for fuel and inferior work, the best timber is used for log huts, 
railway sleepers, fencing, &c. It is not regarded as a very good 
sleeper wood, however, as under heavy traffic the securing spikes 
are easily loosened. It is also used for paper pulp, but is said 
to be more suitable for the chemical than the ground wood 
method of manufacture. The chief value of the species centres 
in its ability to establish itself on heavy, clayey land where 
other species do not thrive and little else will grow. In the 
British Isles its value is purely arboricultural. 
7 
XLIV..-_NEW OR NOTEWORTHY SOUTH AFRICAN 
PLANTS 
— 
J. Burtt-Davy. 
41. Flacourtia hirtiuscula, Oliv., Fl. Trop. Afr. i, 121 (1868). 
Sournu Arrica. Transvaal : Waterberg Distr. ; ‘Warm Baths, 
Jan. and Apl. 1906, Burtt-Davy 5282, and in T.D.A. Herb. 2159, 
2326; Bolus 13694; Marico Distr. Wonderfontein, 1100 m. 
alt., Burtt-Davy 7564. 
RopIcAL Arrica. Portuguese E. Africa: near Senna; 
Batoka Country, April 1860, Dr. J. Kirk! (type); between 
Tette and Kambassa, Kirk !; near Moramballa, Kirk: “River 
Shire, Kirk; Chilabava, Lower Buzi River, 129 m., Swynnerton 
1410. S. Rhodesia: The Matopos, Burtt-Davy in Trans. Dep. 
Agr. Herb. 5018; Mazoe, 1450 m., Hyles 533!; Bulawayo, 
900 m. Rogers 13701 !, Nyasaland : Shire Highlands, Buchanan 
255 ! 
Native names: Mtawa (Buchanan), Iqoqoyo, with a Zulu 
eee ey sagen, 
e fruit is edible; Dr. Kirk noted on his labels “ dark 
ee en oe eatable,” and again “ well-flavoured, eaten ”’ ; 
Buchanan notes that it is a “ nice fruit.” 
