18 CUPRESSACE& (Stapf). [ Widdringtonia 
in Prain, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. Sect. 2, pt. 2, 334; L. H. Bailey, Cult. 
Evergreens, 231; Burtt Davy, Man. Flow. Pl. & Ferns Transvaal, 
i. 102; Pilger in Engl. & Prantl, os Ed. 2, xiii. 383; Dalli- 
more & Jackson, Handb. Conif. 5 Chalk & : Davy, Forest Trees 
& Timb. Brit. Emp. i. 12 with i and t. opp. 18. W. Mahoni, 
Mast. in Journ. Linn. Soc. London .Xxxvil. 271 ; Sim, Forest FI. 
Portug. East Afr. 109. Callitris ‘Mahon Engl. Pflanzenwelt Afr. 
ii. 88. C. Whytei, Engl. l.c. 89; Eyles in Trans. R. Soc. South Afr. 
t. 292. 
TransvaaL: Lydenburg Distr., Oranje, For. Dept. Herb., 340. Zoutpansberg 
Gray 
Distr. ; Blaauw common in a kloof at the summit, Houseman! C. #. 
in Col. H 575! Hanglip, 34 eile west of Louis Trichardt, For. Dept. Herb., 
7298 ! 5 miles west of Wylie’s Poort, 4800 ft., on ag rocky slopes, H scenes 
& Gillet, ! Pietersburg Distr. ; summit of the Wolkberg, near Haenert 
burg, 5000-5200 ft., Lewis in Col. Herb., 3597! 4310! 
Extending northwards into tropical Africa as far as Nyasaland. 
t.1 ; 
to dls in culti ition: soocrding to Carriére, up to almost 
50 ft. high with strictly erect branches; ultimate ramification of 
the adult plant almost cylindric, the barren twigs slender, up to 
lin. in diam. ; leaves of the juvenile state needle-shape, spr reading, 
up to 10 lin. by 3 lin., glaucous below or quite green (cultivated 
specimens) ; of adult state decussate, squamiform, those of the 
older branches with an ovate acute usually appressed blade, the 
free portion about | lin. long, those of the ultimate divisions tightly 
appressed (so that the contour of the branchlet is approximately a 
straight line or in the upper part more or less wavy), ovate-oblong 
less 
denticulate ; eee 4, prot rete between the scales, female 
strobiles in slender loose s spik 
ing with a vegetative bud ; 10 
to 14 lin. across, nigaerenag ‘the Sil equaniform anager 
; valves smooth, rarely slightl y and eogulaxty 
