Widdringtonia. | CUPRESSACE (Stapf). 21 
natalensis, Endl. Ee Con. 34, which was very pag plete raged et 
from a aces imen said to have been sent by Gueinzius an 
Natal,” is very likely W. cupressoides. Neither soberead in in the iebecione 
Mts., which were then a Hongo) botanically quite unknown. On the other 
hand, both visited the t W.e sak csablel before they weak to Natal. 
Although ce cute mi Linnaeus’ Cupressus juniperoides—two seedling 
plants—are lost, it is practically cottatii that they belonged to the same species 
as his Thuja cupressoides, described by him four years later. The same applies 
to Miller’ ] Lamarck’s Junipe capensis and the 
riov ch rest on the his has already been su: 
gested by Schlechtendal, l.c., and, apart from other considerations, it is evident 
since the berg = , the home of Widdringtonia junipe fe 
ere no befo Bo i of the 19th century, and certainly were 
jin eaplored. fetanically” until 1829. W. cup or soos is the Cape Cyne, Berg 
Cypress, or Sapree-hout of the Cape Colo 
W. Dons ronal Peg yn Conif. 34 ee Thuia agian, fgg Vent. in 
— Duham Pachylepis , Bro Ann. Se. Nat. 1'¢ sér. 
190), desc ane neg specimen ‘cultivated at Ri ree it in Mauritius about 
1800 i is pouibhy, as aieeadhy suggested by Carriére, W. cupressoides. 
4. W. dracomontana (Stapf ex Dallimore & Jackson Handb. 
Conif. 540) ; a shrub, 8-10 ft. high, rarely a tree; ultimate rami- 
fications slender, about 4 lin. in diam.; leaves of the juvenile 
state unkn h 
scales in about 6 pairs, subpeltate, r ombic-ovate, obscurely 
acuminate, subcoriaceous, slightly keeled — ; pollen-sacs 4, 
shagai covered by the scales in the cone ; female strobiles in short, 
very scanty spikes, terminating — a pipetaties bud; cones at 
W. cupressoides, Sim, Tree Plant. Natal, 234 ; For. Fl. Cape Col. 337 
