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Timber red in colour with a handsome grain, hard, but fairly easily worked 
and weathers well above ground. It is untouched by Bostrychide or termites, 
and has a probably ill-founded reputation for durability below ground. The 
tree makes an enormous crown of handsome glossy foliage, and is usually to 
no great extent deciduous and by no means a favourite with locusts. The 
old trees are in full bloom at the commencement of November, and the fruits 
commence to ripen at the end of the following September, continuing to fall 
till December and littering the ground for some distance in every direction. 
The seeds are crushed and boiled by the natives, the resulting oil, which is 
said to have a bitter taste, is rubbed by them into their hair to kill vermin.” 
OLACINE, 
XIMENIA AMERICANA, Linn. Sp. Pl. 1193. 
Open spaces near Chirinda, 3500 ft.; in fl. Oct. : n. 175. Beira open 
woods, 100 ft. ; in fr. Dec. ; n. 1128. 
А specimen from 8. Umtali, n. 6619, is closely allied, but is somewhat 
pubescent. 
Distrib, Widely distributed. 
APODYTES DIMIDIATA, А. Mey. ea Bernh. in Linea, xii. (1838) 136. 
Kloof near Chirinda, 3800 ft. ; n. 184. 
Distrib. South Africa, Lower Guinea, Nile Land. 
OLAX STUHLMANNI, Engler т Notizbl. К. Bot. Garten, Berl. п. 283. 
Вока, Lower Виж, 100 ft.; in fr. Dee.; n. 1196. A large shrub on 
limestone. 
Distrib. Lourenço Marques. 
OPILIA AMENTACEA, Roxb. Pl. Coromandel, ii. 31, t. 158. 
Sabi River at about 1000 ft. ; in fl. Nov. ; n. 1204. A climbing shrub 
with yellow flowers. | 
Distrib. Widely distributed. 
PYRENACANTHA KAMASSANA, Baill. Adansonia, x. (1872) 212. 
Madanda Forest, 400 ft.; in fr. Dec. ; n. 2067. А climber on the ant- 
heaps at Ancate. | 
Distrib. Mozambique District. 
ILICINE Æ. 
ILEX urris, Radl. in Act. Congr. Bot. Anvers (1887) 172. 
Mt. Pene, 7000 ft. ; in fl. Oct. ; n. 6210. 
Distrib. South Africa, Mozambique District, Madagascar. 
