CELASTRINE^. XV. Cassike. XVI. Hartogia. XVII. Curtisia. XVIII. Nemopakthes. 



13 



ing with 



the petals. Ovary 1. Style wanting. Stigmas 3-5. 



XVI. HARTO^GIA (in honour of J. Hartog, a Dutch ntxiu- 



Drupe almost dry, containing a thin 3-5-celled, 3-5-secded nut. ralist and traveller at the Cape of Good Hope). Thunb. no v. 

 Seeds hanging from the top of the cells. — Cape and Asiatic gen. 5. p. 35. with a figure, but not of Lin. D. C. prod. 2. p. 12. 



shrubs, with tetragonal branches, opposite, smooth, coriaceous 

 leaves, and axillary peduncles, bearing small flowers. 



Lm. SYST. Telra-Pentdndria. Calyx 4'5-clcft. Petals 4-5, 



spreading. Stamens 4-5, alternating with tlie pettils. Ovary 1. 



1 C. Mauroce'nia (Lin. spec. 385.) leaves sessile, obovate, Style thick, bifid, with bifid lobes. Drupe dry, ovate, S-celled, 



quite entire, convex ; pedicels many, very short. T2 , G. Native 

 of Ethiopia. Maurocenia frangularia, Mill. diet. no. 1. 

 Dill, elth, t. 121. f. 147. 



Flow 



2-seeded. llixhit of JHygindaj rroin which it is hardly distinct. 

 1 H. Cape'nsis (Lin. fil. suppl. 128.) ^2 . G. Native of tlie 



at first greenish-yellow, but Cape of Good Hope. Leaves opposite, oblong, crenated, smooth, 



hardly stalked. Pedicels few-flowered, axillary, drooping. 



changing at length to white. Fruit dark-purple when ripe. 

 The specific name is in honour of the Venetian senator Franc 

 Morosini, who had a fine garden at Padua, a catalogue of which des, Spreng. syst. 1. p. 780. 



Schreb^ra schinoides, Thunb. prod. t. 2. Elseodendron schinoi- 



was published by Ant. Tita. 



MorosinVs Hottentot-cherry. Fl. July, 

 Slnnd:) C feet. 



Aug. 



Ch. 1G90. 



2 C. Cape'nsis (Lin. mant. 220.) leaves stalked, ovate, retuse, 



crenate, flat; panicles axillary, shorter than the leaves. 



Native of the Cape of Good Hope, in woods. 

 — Dill, elth, t. 2JG. Flowers small, white. 



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G. 



Cape Hartogia. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1800. Shrub 10 feet. 

 Cult. See Casshie for culture and propagation. 



XVn. CURXrSIA (in honour of the late William Curtis, a 



celebrated English botanist, who 



commenced the Botunicd 



Burm. afr. t. 85. Magazine). Ait. hort. kevv, 1. p. 1C2. but not of Schrcb. D. C. 



prod. 2. p. 12. — Doratium, Sol. in Jaum. exp. 2. p. 267* 

 llelhania and Junghauia, Gmel. syst. 247. and 259. 



LiN. SYST. Tetrdndriay Monogt/nia. Calyx 4-parted. Petals 

 oval, acuminate, quite entire, with an acute base, rather fleshy, 4, blunt, longer than the calyx. Stamens 4, alternating with the 



Cape Phillyrea. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1G29. Shrub G feet 

 3 C, exce'lsa (Wall, in fl. ind. 2. p. 37C),) leaves alternate, 



shining 



above; umbels axillary and lateral, many-flowered, petals. Ovary and style 1. 



Drupe subglobose, 

 rounded; stigmas 5 ; berry 5-celled, 5-sceded. Ij , G. Native succulent, containing a 4-5-celled, 4-5-sccded nucleus, — A fine 



Stigmas 4-5. 



of Nipaul, in all the forests of the valley and the surrounding 

 mountains. ^ Flowers white ? Berry about the size of a currant, 



tree, with opposite, broad, shining, toothed, smooth leaves, which 

 are rusty beneath, and racemose panicles of small flowers. See 



pulpy, yellow. Notwithstanding the rotate corolla, and the Rich, diet, class, hist. nat. t. 5. p. 203. 



increased number of stigmas and seeds, as well as the alternate I C, fag/nea (Ait. hort. kew. 1. c. Lam. ill. t. 71.) Ij . G. 



leaves. Dr. Wallich had no hesitation in referring this tree to Native of the Cape of Good Hope. — Burm. afr. t. 82. The 

 Cas 



sine. 



Tall Cassine. Fl. May, June. Clt. 1820. Tree 40 feet. 



Hottentots and Caffres make the shafts of their javelins or 

 assagays from the wood of this tree. They always carry one or 



4 C. DISCOLOR (Wall, in fl. ind. 2. p. 278.) leaves ovate, acvx- two of these with them on their journeys. They consist of an 



iron spear, hollowed out on each side, about six inches long, 

 with or without an iron shaft, which is sometimes round and 



mmate, tapenng much to the base, whitish beneath, quite entire, 



coriaceous ; fascicles of flowers axillary, dichotomous ; stigmas 4. 



^ . G. Native of the East Indies, on the mountains border- smooth, and sometimes grooved. It is fastened with thongs of 



ing on Silhet. Flowers yellowish, monopetalous. 



Tivo-coloitred-leaved Cassine. Fl. Jan. Tree 20 feet. 



leather to a slender, round stick, 5 feet long, tapering towards 

 the end, and made of the wood of this tree. With these lances, 



5 C. CoLPooN (Thunb. fl. cap. 2. p. 227.) leaves stalked, which they throw with great dexterity to the distance of a hun- 



ovate, crenate, but usually quite entire ; panicle axillary, length 

 of leaves. T2 • G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Euony- 



dred paces, the Hottentots and Caffres defend themselves, and 

 kill buflldoes and other wild animals. The tree is called in 



mus Colpoon, Lin. mant. 200. — Burm. afr. t. 86. Flowers white. Dutch Assagajj-hotd^ JVitc-ehe^ and Stink-houi. 



(quadrifid ?) 



Colpooii'txGe. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 179h Shrub 6 feet. 



\ Doubtful species. 



iExHIOPICA (Tl 



In English 



Ilassagay^ or Assagajj-trce, from its m;e among the natives at 



the Cape. 



Beech-like Hassagay-tree. Clt. 1775. Tree GO feet. 

 Cult. See Cassine for culture and propagation. 



XVIII. NEMOPA'NTHES (from ve^oc, nemos, a grove, and 

 oblong, deeply crenate ; panicles axillary. ^. G. Native of aydocy anthos, a Rower ; habitat). Rafin. journ. phys. 1819. p. 

 the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers white. This is probably a 96, and in Sillim. amer. journ. 1. p. 377. D. C. prod. 2. p. 17. 



Ilicioidcs, Dum. Cours. cd. 1. vol. 4. p. 27. 



Lis, SYST. Polf/gdmiay Dicecia. Flowers dioecious or poly- 



^^ariety of C. Capensis. 

 Ethiopian Cassine. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. ? Shrub 5 feet. 



7 C. ba'rbara (Lin. spec. 3S5,) leaves sessile, cordate ob- 

 long, serrate-toothed ; panicles axillary, shorter than the leaves. 

 ^ . G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Thunb. fl. cap. 

 2. p. 226. Peduncles usually 3-flowered. Flowers small, 

 white. 



Barbarous Cassine. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1816. Shrub 6 ft. 



8 C, OPPosiTiFOLiA (Mill. diet. no. 3.) leaves stalked, ovate, 

 acute ; flowers axillary, scattered. Tj . G. Native of? For- 

 "lerly cultivated in the gardens of England under the name of 

 hyson tea. Flowers greenish-white ? 



Opposite-leaved Cassine. Shrub. 



Cult. Shrubs with large thick leaves, and small white 

 flowers. They will grow freely in a mixture of loam and peat ; 



from abortion. 



natmg 



with the petals. 



Calyx small, scarcely conspicuous. 



Stamens 5, alter- 



gamous 



Petals 5, distinct, oblong-linear, deciduous. 



Ovary hemispherical, covered with 



3-4, sessile, in the 



Stigmas 



clammy juice. Style wanting, 

 male flowers they are hardly manifest. Berry somewhat glo- 

 bose, 3-4-celled, 3-4-seeded. — A small deciduous shrub. 



1 N. Canadk'nsis (D. C. mem- soc. gen. 1. p. 44. pi. rar, 

 hort, gen. t. 3.) ^ . H. Native of North America, from Canada 

 to Carolina, on high mountains, near edges of \>onds. Tlex 

 Canadensis, Michx. fl. bor. amer. 2. p. 299. t. 49. N. fascicu- 

 laris, Rafin. h c. Flex delicatula, Bart. fl. virg. p. 67. ? Prhios 

 lucidus. Ait. hort. kew. 2. p. 478. Leaves ovate, quite entire, 

 or serrated at the apex, smooth. Pedicels usually solitary, 1- 



and ripened cuttings will readily strike root, if planted in a pot flowered, very long. Flowers white. Berries large, beautiful 



of sand with a hand-glass placet! over them. 



crimson, very ornamental. 



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