ee BIXACEA (Harv.) — [A beria. 
pared with an original specimen of Burchell’s No. 4012 ; and findingit to agree with 
our plant, have preserved the earlier specific name. 
2. D. rotundifolia (Thunb. and Harv.) ; branches ash-coloured ; leaves 
rigid, leathery, roundish or obovate, obtuse or emarginate, entire, 
—3-nerved at base, reticulate ; peduncle of the female flowers shorter 
than the calyx, sepals ovate-oblong, persistent, not enlarged in fruit. 
D. celastroides, Sond. in Linn. 23.p. 12. Celastrus rotumtifolius, Thunb. 
Prockia rotundifolia, E. § Z! No. 119. 
Has. About the Zwartkops’ River, Uitenhage, Zeyher / Near the sea shore, Mrs. 
Barber. (Herb. T.C.D , Hook., Sond.) 
A coarse shrub armed with thorns 2-3 inches long. It is readily known from 
D. rhamnoides by its dark-green, leathery leaves and-ash-coloured bark. There are 
also important differences in the female periarith, which remains unchanged under 
the ripe fruit. In the present species the lobes of the fleshy disc alternate with the 
calyx segments, in D. rhamnoides they oppose them. The fruit is as good as in 
D. rhamnoides. Both are called ‘‘ Zuwrebesjies.” 
* VIL. ABERIA, Hochst. 
' Flowers dioecious. Male : calyx 4—5-parted, its segments nearly val- 
vate in the bud. Petals none. Stamens indefinitely numerous, on @ 
fleshy receptacle ; filaments very short, anthers erect, basifixed, 2-celled, 
opening outwards. Receptacle covered with fleshy glands. A rudi- 
mentary ovary. Female: calyx 5-7 parted, persistent. Petals none. 
Ovary free, sessile, on a lobed, fleshy dise, 2-celled (rarely 3 or 1-celled) ; 
the dissepiment sometimes incomplete : ovules solitary, on the inflexed 
margins of the carpels. Styles 2-3, divergent. Fruit fleshy, indehis- 
cent, 2-celled, 2-seeded ; seeds covered with dense woolly hairs. Hochst. 
Bot. Zeit. 27. 2. besond. beil. p. 2. 
Shrubs or small trees, unarmed or spiny, natives of Abyssinia and Caffraria. 
Leaves alternate, simple, entire or denticulate, exstipulate. Male fi. minute, on 
short simple peduncles ; female inflorescence similar, the calyx enlarging as the fruit 
ripens. The genus is closely allied to Dovyalis, from which it differs in the two- 
celled fruit and woolly seeds. The generic name is taken from Mount Aber, in 
Abyssinia, where the first discovered species was found. 
1. A Zeyheri (Sond. Linn. xxiii. p. 10.); arborescent, thorny ; 
branches clothed with yellow hairs; leaves obovate, obtuse, narrowed 
at the base, 3-nerved, crenate, the younger ones pubescent, the older 
glabrous ; male flowers in clusters of 3-3, their calyx 5-cleft ; female 
_ solitary, calyx 5—7-parted, sepals ovato-lanceolate ; annular disc lobed, 
_ villous ; fruit fleshy, ovate, tomentose, crowned with the persistent 
styles. Sond, 1. ¢. 7 | eres, 
Has. Crocodile River, Burke § Zeyher! (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.) 
_ A middle-sized tree, with greyish, warted branches, armed with sharp axillary 
spines 1~2 inches long. Leaves, 1-11 inches long, 8-10 lines broad, remotely cre- 
nulate, with minute at each crenature. Stamens very numerous, 
with very short filaments. Fruit yellowish, tomentose, oblong-ovate, crowned with 
the styles ; seeds densely clothed with long, white hairs. = 
2. A. tristis (Sond. L c¢.) shrubby, wrarmed ; branches ash-colowred, 
somewhat warted, glabrous, branchlets ; leaves coriaceous, 
obovate, obtuse or emarginate, the margin sub-revolute, Very entire or 
few toothed, glabrous, 3-nerved, glossy above, pale underneath ; female 
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