496 LAURINEA (Stapf). | Cryptocury. 
long, obtuse ; ovary and style glabrous, the latter almost 1 lin. long ; 
fruit oblong in outline, 8-9 lin. long, 4-5 lin. in diam. ; receptacle 
thin, fleshy ; pericarp crustaceous. Meisn. in DO. Prodr. xv. i. 74. 
Coast Region: Vanrhynsdorp Division; near the Olifants River, between 
Ebenezer and Gift Berg, Drége ! Paarl Div. ; between Paarl and Lady Grey Rail- 
way Bridge and on Great Draakenstein Mountains, Drege! Tulbagh Div. ; 
Mosterts Hoek, in moist places, MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 244! 
Worcester Div. ; near the Hex River, Burke! Swellendam Div. ; dry hills near 
the Breede River, Burchell, 7481! by the Buffeljagts River, Burchell, 7287 ! 
Zeyher, 1128 ! 
2. C. latifolia (Sonder in Linnea, xxiii. 101); a large tree; 
branches fulvo-pubescent ; leaves elliptic to elliptic-oblong, very 
obtuse, rarely subacute, subcuneate at the base, 2-3 in. long, 
1-1} in. broad, thinly coriaceous, cinnamon-colour_ below, finely 
pubescent and at length glabrous above, finely fulvo-tomentellous 
(particularly along the nerves) when young, slowly becoming more 
or less glabrous ; lateral nerves about 4 on each side, the lowest 
pair from the base or almost so, remote from the next pair, very 
oblique and long produced beyond the middle, transverse nerves 
loose, slightly raised below and above, reticulation faint and close 
or obscure ; petioles 3-4 lin. long; panicles axillary, up to 1} in. 
long (including the peduncle), few- to over 12-flowered, the 
larger sometimes with 1 or 2 small foliage leaves in the upper 
part densely fulvo-pubescent or almost velvety, the uppermost 
often reduced to 3 or 2 on very short peduncles ; bracts minute, 
very early deciduous; flowers subsessile in small clusters at 
the ends of the branchlets; perianth campanulate, up to over 
14 lin. long, fulvo-tomentellous without and within ; receptacle 
oblong, constricted at the insertion of the segments ; segments 
ovate-oblong, subequal, about 1 lin. long ; filaments pubescent ; 
anthers equalling the filaments, ovate-oblong, subacute, outer 6 about 
3 lin. long, inner smaller ; staminal glands sessile or subsessile ; 
staminodes subsessile, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate ; fruit unknown. 
Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xv. i. 74. 
Eastern Recion: Natal; near Durban, Gucinzius ; Berea, McKen, 13! and 
without precise locality, Gerrard, 1656! 
This is probably the unnamed Cryptocarya mentioned by Sim, For. Flor. 
Cap. 289, which he describes as a large tree, up to 60 ft. high with a trunk 
3 ft. in diameter, and producing fruits } in. across, with a green skin which 
blackens after falling. It isknown in Pondoland and lower Natal as * Umtungwa.” 
3. C. Woodii (Engl. in Bot. Jahrb. xxvi. 391); a small tree 
10-15 ft. high ; branches slender, glabrous excepting the minutely 
pubescent growing tip ; leaves broad-elliptic, shortly cuneate at the 
base, obtusely, and sometimes long, acuminate, 14-1} in. long; 
$11 in. broad (rarely up to 3 by 1} in.), thinly coriaceous, quite 
glabrous excepting when in bud and then fulvo-pubescent, lateral 
nerves about 4 on each side like the very close and fine reticulation 
slightly raised on each side, petioles 14-2} lin. long; panicles 
axillary, often reduced to few-flowered cymes or solitary flowers, UP to 
