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Pinus inops, Soland. —Cedar Pine, Jersey Pine 
This is referred to in the same work as the last-named species. 
Although often a small, scrubby tree, it sometimes grows 40 feet 
high with a trunk 2 to 3 feet in diameter. The wood is not of 
much value but is described as durable and used to some extent for 
pumps, water tubes and fuel. It is found in poor rocky soil from 
New York to Indiana 
Widdringtonia Whytei, Rendle.—Milanji Cedar. 
An account of this coniferous tree, found by Mr. Whyte ¢ Browns 
on Mount Milanji, British Central Africa, is to be found in cB. 
1892, pp. 122-123. It is the most prominent tree in the cists 
and specimens 140 feet high with trunks 54 feet in diameter at 
6 feet from the ground, with straight clean stems 90 feet long, 
have been recorded. Specimens of “the wood in Museum No. ITI 
at Kew, are of a pale reddish colour and the wood appears to 
be of good quality and easily worked. It is, however, unknown 
commercially, ; difficulties attending its extraction and transit 
reventing its becoming a commercial timber, although it is 
used losally for building purposes. It is also doubtful whether 
the tree exists in sufficient quantities to make its timber of any 
considerable importance even were it within a short distance of the 
ifforts are being made to form new forests in its native 
country, but there are few places in the British Isles where the tree 
would be likely to succeed out of doors. 
XXXVI—LAELIA CAULESCENS. 
R. A. Roure. 
here is a group of small-flowered Brazilian Laelias whose 
Lindl. dorigiinlly- described from the Herbarium of Martius ), the 
specimen of which is preserved in the Herbarium of the 
Kgl. Botanischen Museum at Munich. Owing to the uncertainty 
about this plant, application was made to Prof. Dr. L. Radlkofer 
for the loan of the original specimens, and it may be interesting to 
put on record the results of comparison with fr allied species 
Laelia Sohbet Lindl., was described in 1841 (Bot. Reg. XXVil. 
sub t. 1), from materials "collected by Martius in the Serra de 
Piedade, Prov. Minas Geraes, Brazil. It was said to be dere near 
L, einnabarina, Batem., but with the flowers apparently purple, = 
‘fap then okt to be native o Mexico, ie ‘added that mp 
pee in the Serra do Frio in the Diamond District of Brazil 
(Bot. Reg. xxviii. t. 62). The identification of ZL. caulescens with 
L. flava is only correct so far as:Gardner’s specimen is concerned. 
