Widdringtonia. | CUPRESSACE& (Stapf). 4 
late, beaked, > 3 lin. long, 1} lin. wide, the wing up to 24 lin. 
wide below the top. 
TRANSVAAL: Zoutpansberg, Kotze in Forest Dept. Herb., 7048! H. Hansen, 
Tals! 
The specimens from which this species was described were taken from a 
tree in Mr. Hansen’s garden at Piet Retief, which, according to Mr. Kotze, 
was ihlaied from the farm illside,’’ near Louis Trichardt, but specimens 
received from there proved to be W. Whytei. 
2. W. Whytei aes cto in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. iv. 60, 
t. 9, figs. 6-11); a shrub or small tree, in Transvaal, or tae 
to 140 ft. = in ‘the Brigg ese trunk up to over 5 ft. 
seliateia. or cocnatog eles about in. in diam.; leaves 
— state acicular, up to 1 in. by 4-1 lin., of adult state 
uamiform, those of the long and intermediate branches with a 
Eaaséolats acuminate or oblong to ovate and acute somewhat 
esting or appressed free blade, 2 lin. long, and a broad adnate 
e with more or less parallel margins ; those of the ultimate and 
BE cetimee also of the pesitlsaals divisions tightly appressed (so 
ean ; : 
male strobiles cylindric-oblong, 14-2 lin. long, ebracteate an 
subsessile in the cup formed by the subtending foliage leaves ; 
scales in abou airs, coriaceous, subpeltate, the lower deltoid, 
with a distinct hard beak, the upper more rounded and minutely 
pi ; pe. acs 4, protruding between ae scales; female 
squamiform broad-ovate acuminate bract ; scales ovate, apiculate, 
face bluish-pruinose, back and margins par -brown ; ovules up 
t 
their cusps about equally distant from the t top; s up t 
obovate to Hialeah, up to 6 lin. by 23 In., at the 
sg ovate-lanceolate in outline, beaked, 3-3} lin. eo the win, 
lin. wid 
u 3 wide below the top. Masters in Gard ” 1894, 
XV on - 1894, xvi. 190, and 1905, xxxvii. 18; in Nature 94, 85 ; 
a. ot. xxxvii. 270; Whyte in Kew Bulletin, 
> 3; SXxin, ic 
in Kew Bulletin, 1896, 216; Rendle in Journ. i ot. 
n Kew Bulletin, 1913, 224; Burkill in Ishak 
re i 
Brit Centr. Afr. 279: Sim, Forest FI. Portug. East Afr. oe Stapf 
