Cryptocarya. | LAURINE& (Stapf). 497 
3 in. long (including the very slender peduncles), more or less finely 
and adpressedly pubescent; bracts ovate, fulvo-pubescent, very 
early deciduous ; bracteoles minute, lanceolate, with dark glandular 
tips, somewhat below the receptacle ; pedicels of the cymes rarely 
over | lin. long and often much shorter, of solitary flowers up to 
3 lin, long, filiform ; perianth campanulate, up to almost 1? lin. 
long ; very minutely pubescent without and within, excepting the 
subcylindric receptacle which is glabrous within ; segments sub- 
equal, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, }-+ lin. long; filaments pubescent ; 
6 outer anthers elliptic in outline, obtuse, 3 lin. long, inner 3 
smaller and narrower, and acute, all glabrous or pubescent at the 
base of the connective, rather longer than the filaments; staminal 
glands stipitate ; staminodes lanceolate, acutely acuminate, } lin. 
long, ovary and style glabrous; fruit globose or subglobose, dark 
brown, 6-8 lin. long, 5-6 lin. (according to Sim, 6-9 lin.) ; receptacle 
fleshy ; pericarp thick crustaceous. C. acuminata, Schinz ex Sim, 
For. Fl. Cap. 289, t. 158, fiz. 1. 
Coast Recion: King Williamstown Div. ; Perie Forest, Galpin, 3279! by the 
riverside near King Williamstown, Sim, 1157! Komgha Div. ; near Komgha, 
Schlechter, 6153 | East London Div. ; wooded ravine near the mouth of Kwenqura 
River, Galpin, 5808 ! 
EasteRN Recion: Transkei; Tsomo Forest, Barber, 12! hy streams near 
Kentani, Miss Pegler, 712! Natal; Inanda, Wood, 766! 4684, and without 
precise locality, Gerrard, 72! 1658! Cooper, 1173! Gerrard & McKen, 702! 
The fruits of Wood’s specimen from the Inanda forest are produced at the 
top into a beak, a condition of which there is hardly an indication in the other 
specimen ; otherwise, however, the specimens agree perfectly with the remainder. 
Native name J'unga according to Sim. 
4. C. myrtifolia (Stapf); branches slender, growing tips of 
branchlets fulvo-pubescent, soon glabrescent ; leaves broadly elliptic- 
lanceolate to elliptic, acute at both ends, or tips acutely acuminate, 
1-1} in. long, $—} in. broad, coriaceous, finely pubescent when 
quite young, at length quite glabrous; lateral nerves about 6 on 
each side, very faint, exceedingly closely and finely reticulate, pallid 
below ; petioles slender, about 1} lin. long ; panicles axillary, $-1} 
in. long (including the slender peduncles), the lower often leafy in 
the upper part, the uppermost much reduced and short, all some- 
what dense, minutely fulvo-pubescent ; bracts ovate, small, very early 
deciduous ; bracteoles obsolete ; pedicels hardly any or up to over 
$ lin. long ; perianth campanulate, over 14 lin. long, fulvo-pubescent 
without and excepting the oblong receptacle within; segments 
subequal, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, almost 1 lin. long; filaments 
pubescent; anthers ovate, apiculate, 3 lin. long, very minutely 
pubescent on the back along the connective; staminal glands 
stipitate ; staminodes ovate, mucronulate-acute ; ovary and style 
glabrous, the latter } lin. long; fruit globose, 4 lin. in diam. ; 
receptacle very thin, fleshy ; pericarp crustaceous. 
Eastern Recion: Natal; Inanda, Wood, 1402! and without precise locality, 
Gerrard, 1657 ! 
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