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EXLZopDENDRON Capense. Cape Exxo- 
DENDRON. 
KEKE KEKE KEKE KER EERE 
Class and Order. 
TrrranpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—CerxastrineEg. ) 
Generic Character. 
Calyx minimus 4—5 lobus. Petala 4—5 patentia basi 
lata. Stamina 4—5 petalis alterna. Discus carnosus circa 
Ovarium.| Stylus brevissimus. ~ Drupa exsucca, nucleo 
lignoso 5-loculari, interdum abortu 2—4 locularis.  Semina 
in. Joculis bina, abortu solitaria, erecta, oblonga, albumine 
carnoso, embryone centrali recto, cotyledonibus foliaceis, 
radic./infera,—Arbores aut frutices; foliis glabris oppositis ; 
pedunculis,axillaribus subcorymbosis. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
ELzopenpron Capense ; erectum glabrum, ramis, scabro- 
punctatis, foliis suboppositis petiolatis latis inaqui- 
lateris coriaceis obtusiusculis margine subrevolutis 
utrinque reticulato-venosis ovato-oblongis acuminatis, 
_bicrenato-serratis y. ovalibus et ellipticis repando- 
serratis, serraturis inflexo-subaculeatis, paniculis axil- 
laribus simplicibus dichotomis. Ecklon et Seyher. _ 
Etzopenpron Capense. Ecklon et Seyher, Enumeratio 
Pl. Afric. MSS, 127. 
This, notwithstanding its insignificant flowers, is a hand- 
some evergreen, but will not endure our climate, even with 
the protection of a wall. We have three varieties, all free- 
owing, and differing chiefly in the breadth of the leafand 
epth of the serratures, but though raised in different de- 
grees of heat, not, 1 think, varying from this cause. We 
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