are indebted for the possession of the plants to Capt. 
Macapam, R. N., who sent seeds from the Cape of Good 
Hope, to the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in Octo- 
ber, 1828. 
The plant in common cultivation as Exzopenpron Ca- 
pense, is nothing else than a narrow-leaved variety of the 
common Bay. How this blunder came to be made and 
diffused, I cannot conjecture. 
Descr. A tree, in the specimen described, eighteen feet 
high, and growing freely ; its trunk four inches in circum- 
ference near the base, and almost cylindrical fora consider- 
able height, perfectly straight, its bark pale brown and 
warted ; the branches spreading and pendulous. Leaves 
(two inches and a half long, one and a quarter broad) 
petiolate, subopposite, lanceolato-elliptical, the sides some-_ 
what unequal, coriaceous, distantly spinuloso-serrulate, 
slightly revolute in the edges, dark-green above, paler 
below, and often becoming rusty ; petiole about one-fifth of 
the length of the leaf, channelled above. Corymbs axillary, 
dichotomous, a single flower standing in the fork, and the 
branches supporting three flowers each; peduncle com- 
pressed. Bracteas lanceolate, opposite, resembling much 
diminished leaves. Flowers minute, green. Calyx four- 
partite, green, flat, segments oblong. Corolla four-parted, 
twice as long as, and more delicate than the calyx, but 10 
all other respects similar to, and its segments alternating 
with, it. Stamens four, opposite to the segments of the 
calyx, at first erect, shorter than the corolla, afterwards re- 
flected between its segments, as well as the corolla and 
calyx persisting ; filaments green; anthers oblong, yellow, 
bilobular, bursting along the face. Germen imbedded in a 
flat, green, fleshy drupe. Style single, shorter than the 
stamens, erect: stigma inconspicuous. Fruit yellow, oval, 
about the size of a hasel-nut, fleshy, and containing a hard 
nut with one to three cells. Seeds erect, compressed, 
almond-shaped, covered with a thick brown testa, having 4 
copious albumen, and a central embryo, which is slightly 
curved, and passes from side to side of the greatest breadth 
of the seed, and from one extremity to the other. Graham. 
Fig. 1. Flowering Branch. 2. 3. FI one ae 
Nut ici the Drupe. 6. Drupe laid op oo 4. Drupe laid ope 
