334 WIDDRINGTuNIA ; OR 



No. 3. WiDDRiNGTONiA JUNIPEROIDES, EndUcher. 

 Syn. Cupi'essus juniperoides, LinncBus. 

 „ „ Africana, Miller. 



„ Juniperus Capensis, Lamarck. 



„ Taxodium juniperoides, ^or<. 

 „ „ Capense, Hort. 



„ Schubertia Capensis, Schrader. 



„ Pachylepis juniperoides, Brong. 



„ Callitris arborea, Schrader. 



Leaves, without any footstalks, but adhering at the base, and 

 running down the stem, leathery, and glaucous-green, the 

 younger ones mostly linear, needle-shaped, smooth, sharp- 

 pointed, and slightly three-nerved, spreading, slightly curved, 

 opposite, or in whorls of three, from three-quarters to an inch 

 long, and three-quarters of a line broad at the base; the adult 

 ones scattered ; those on the branchlets sometimes ovate- 

 lanceolate, or rhomboid-obtuse, or sharp-pointed, terminating 

 in a small bristle-point, or erect and loosely imbricated, with a 

 slightly sunken gland on the back. Branches, spreading, and 

 pointing upwards at the ends ; branchlets, erect, sometimes 

 spreading, angular, frequently very short, and covered with 

 needle-shaped leaves. Male flowers, oblong-cylindrical, and 

 terminal. Cones, on the laterals, in clusters of three or four 

 together, rounded, and slightly depressed. Valves, oval, woody, 

 reddish brown, shining, and closing upwards to the top, level on 

 the interior face, with two seeds under each. 



A middle-sized tree, with a straight stem, and ample head, 

 found in the western parts of the Cape of Good Hope, on the 

 Mountains of Blauwberg, at an elevation of from 3,000 to 4,000 

 feet, and plentiful on Cedernberg (Cedar Mount). 



It is quite tender. 



No. 4. WiDDRiNGTONiA Natalensis, EndUcher. 



This kind is said to resemble Widdringtonia cupressoides, 

 but with many more slender branchlets, and with the leaves all 



