Widdringtonia. | CUPRESSACE (Stapf). 15 
Shrubs or trees; leaves es page in the juvenile state and on the 
long-shoots, otherwise decussa whorls of 3, the juvenile needle-shaped, 
the adult usually tre squa coe andes ore or less appressed, rarely both, 
the juvenile and the adult, needle- shared and spreading. 
Dis Genera about 15 with 125 species, of these 7 genera with over 
40 Sica | in the Southern Hemisphere ; 1 in South Africa 
I. WIDDRINGTONIA, Endl. Gen. Plant. Suppl. I. 25 (1842). 
Moneecious (always ?) Male strobiles small, terminal, mostly on 
short lateral branchlets ; scales decussate, rhomboid-deltoid, pro- 
osing up, o 
3 or more at the base of each scale. Mature strobiles or cones woody, 
— or globose, opening with 4 very thick erect valves, correspond- 
ing to the 4 scales. — ee, ovoid or trigonous, winged ; testa 
Sscons. Cotyledon 
Evergreen trees; leaves passing from a spiral a ~ the juvenile 
state and in the long-shoots, to a strictly = rte —— alTang t in the adult 
state, needle-sha he juvenile form miform and ‘ghtly appressed 
in the adult ; cones the as of a small hata, ays clus 
: Disrriz. Species 6 in South Africa, one of them a in ne Tropical 
frica. 
Ovules 6-10 with a scale; maturing seeds up to 
ver 30 in a cone ; pollen-sacs protruding between 
cales : 
Mature — oh psi nee s hgisaed got ae 
(when closed), wu 
bliste a (bee ot ‘eri, sas oobea cusps 
ait mar an 
eee a stiptat Peak the stipe + se 
obversely pear-shaped, 
bran terete, ve 
r, 4-4 lin. in diam., their ere 
rhombic cdot acute or subobtuse, 1 lin. AS 
... (1) stipitata. 
Poe sexi or ssisieinlls ae eiie poo ‘with a 
broa 
su r, } lin 
their scale-leaves rhombic, ieee : ain oe (2) Whytei. 
