peatedly divided in a trichotomous manner, with the 

 branches four-sided, glabrous, very pale green. Pedicels 

 with minute bracteae at their base. Flowers numerous, 

 white, very fragrant, small. Calyx minute, yellowish- 

 white, four-toothed. Corolla rotate, deeply four-lobed, 

 the lobes spreading or recurved. Stamens two, inserted 

 opposite to each other in the sinus of the lobes. Anthers 

 deep orange. Pistil pale green ; Germen globose. Style 

 shorter than the stamens. Stigma globose. 



This is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, where it 

 appears to form a tree, yielding a wood so hard, that the 

 Dutch colonists, according to Mr. Burchell, call it Yzer- 

 hout, (or Iron-wood,) which they esteem for making the 

 poles of their waggons as but little inferior to the Hassa- 

 gay-wood (CvRnisikfaginea). It is a very desirable green- 

 house plant; for after it has attained a certain age, it 

 blossoms freely in the early spring, the flowers continue 

 for a long period, and are exceedingly fragrant. 



Some Botanists are of opinion, that this is only a variety 

 of Olea capensis, (figured in the Bot. Register, t. 613.) ; 

 but the leaves are less rigid, longer, and vastly more acu- 

 minated at both extremities, and the flowers are smaller. 



Fig. 1. Flowers. — Magnified. 



