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W. Whytei, Rendle {Callitris Whytei, Engl.). Figs. H^l, 53. A large tree to 

 HO feet tall, with a straight clear trunk and very thick bark: leading shoots 

 with spirally arranged imbricate leaves free at the apex and triangular and 

 subpungent; ultimate branchlets with opposite closely appressed leaves 

 deltoid and with a thickened apex; young seedling plants with linear spreading 

 leaves to 1 inch long: cones 4-6 together on short lateral branchlets, sub- 

 globose, about ^:4 inch across; scales oblong, obtuse, tuberculate on back 

 and with a short mucro below the ai)ex 

 Africa, at 6,000-8,000 feet 

 altitude. — Introduced in 1894 

 to Great Britain; cultivated in 

 California. It is recommended 

 for reforestation purposes in 

 tropical and subtropical 

 wood is dull 

 and strongly 



High mountains of tropical East 



countries; its 

 reddish-white 

 aromatic. 

 A related 



species is V/. 



52. Juvenile foliage of 

 Widdringtonia ^^^lytei. 



53. Mature foliage of Widdringtonia Whytei 



