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AGARICINE E. 
tinus curtipes, Massee; pileo bees pens bres -lento 
pallide 2 luteo centro saturatius colorato e centro radia uamuloso- 
maculato margine integro involuto, stipite solido duro sicot pallido hic 
pose ren pruinoso ' flavido obtecto, lamellis decurrentibus angustis 
dis -luteis acie minutissime crenulato, sporis levibus 
hyalinis subspheroideis 1-2-guttulatis 5-65 dia 
Pileus 1} poll. diam. Stipes 4—5 lin. emer et 12-3 lin. crassus. 
Allied to L. Thwaitesii, B. & Br., Ceylon, but differing in the scaly 
pileus, broader gills, and subglobose spores. 
Agaricus (Na porta pediades, Fries Epicr., p. 197. 
Europe, Central Asia, North America, tropical and South Africa, 
Ceylon, South Australia, and New Zealand. 
DXXXVII.--CEDAR TREE OF MOUNT MLANJE. 
(Widdringtonia Whytei, Rendle.) 
A note on the recently discovered native cedar tree of British Central 
Africa was published in the Kew Bulletin (1895, p. 
timber is described as “ equal to the finest pine and easily worked.” It 
is gratifying = find that this valuable and interesting tree is likely to 
be carefully preserved in its presentlocalities and also planted in the 
neighbourhood of the coffee estates in the Shiré Highlands. 
ho following fnrther information respecting it has been communicated 
by de Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs:— 
Tue FogEtGN OFrcice to porn AL GARDENS, KEW. 
Sim, Foreign Office, March 25, 1896. 
I am directed by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to 
transmit to you, to be laid before the Director, the accompanying copy 
of a despatch containing a report on the cedar forests at Mlanje in 
British Central Africa. 
I 
am, &c. 
The Assistant Director, H. PERCY ÁNDERSON. 
Royal Gardens, Kew. 
[ Enclosure.] 
Commissioner Johnston to the Marquess of Salisbury. 
(No. 151. Central Africa.) The Residency, Zomba, 
My Lorp, 31st December, 1895. 
Tux following extract from a Report by Mr. John McClounie, 
the Forester in the service of the British Central Africa Administration 
An charge of the Mianje cedar forests, may be of interest to your 
Lordshi 
Mr. MeClonnie writes :— 
/ I have now been all over the Ruo Plateau, and the Luchenya, the 
Likubula Gorge, and the Tuchila Plateaux. The district round the 
. source of the Tuchila e: by far the best and most ti mbered pang of the 
intain. A few straggling trees are seen near the sources of the Ruo, 
nly one | "t = while the Lacoa is a is dotted with cedar 4 aloug 
