Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Cultivated in this 
country at Eltham, by Dr. Sherard before 1730. Blossoms 
in the greenhouse in autumn and winter. 
A thinly-branched shrub, at ten or eleven years old (with 
us), scarcely a yard high; stem hardly of the thickness of 
the little finger, knottedly scarred by the shedding of the 
smaller branches; bark blackish brown marked with grey 
lines and dots; branches from nine inches to a foot in 
length. Leaves decussately opposite, roundedly oblong, some- 
times broadly retuse but generally without any sinus at the 
end, coriaceous, greyishly green, the green varying from 
lighter to darker, smooth, obsoletely veined. Flowers white, 
smelling like those of the common Privet, axillary and ter- 
minal, disposed in closer looser thyrsiform panicles. Calyx 
small, 4-toothed. Corolla of one piece, short, with scarcely 
any tube, equally 4-cleft. Anthers saffron-coloured. 
We have trusted to Dillenius for the above description. 
The fruit is a small oblong Olive, at no stage, we believe, 
applicable to the purposes of ceconomy, to which the Eu- 
ropean Olive is applied. 
The drawing was taken at the Nursery of Messrs. Col- 
vill, in the King's Road, Chelsea, where the plant is kept 
in the greenhouse. 
