A podytes. | OLACINEE (Sond.) 235 
placenta adhering below to the spurious dissepiments, free above. 
Ovules as many as the spurious cells, pendulous from the apex of the 
placenta. Seed spuriously erect. Jnjlorescence aatllary, racemose ; the 
racemes rarely reduced to a single flower. 
I. XIMENIA, Plum. 
Calyx free, unchanged in fruit. Petals 4—5, free, hairy at base, within. 
Stamens twice as many as the petals, all fertile, free, hypogynous. Drupe 
baceate, with a bony one-seeded nut. ndl. Gen. 5490. DC. Prod. 1. 
p. 533. Benth. 1. . 
Tropical trees or shrubs, usually armed with axillary spines. Leaves coriaceous, 
ovate or lanceolate, entire. Peduncles axillary, one-flowered, or corymbose and 
many-flowered. Named after Fr. Ximenes, a Spaniard, author of an account of the 
medical plants and the animals of New Spain. 
1. X. caffra (Sond. Linn. 23, p. 21); tomentose ; branches spiny, 
reddish ; leaves elliptical or oblong-elliptical, obtuse, emarginate, cori- 
aceous, the adult glabrous above ; peduncles axillary, solitary or in pairs, 
single-flowered ; petals externally pubescent, densely bearded within ; 
drupe oval, glabrous. 
Var. §.? Natalensis; branches and leaves glabrous ; petioles, pedun- 
eles and calyces pubescent. 
Has. In woods at Macallisberg, Zeyher, No. 1847. 8. at Port Natal, Gueinzius. 
Oct. Dec. (Herb. Sond.) 
A shrub. Branches sub-divaricate, terete or angular, clothed with a short tomen- 
tum, more copious on the ramuli, and armed with short (3-4 lines long) spines. 
Leaves short-stalked, 1} inch long, 10-12 lines wide, entire, one-nerved, the younger 
at each side clothed with brownish pubescence, the adult shining above. Peduncles 
3 lines long. Calyx 4-fid. Petals 4, lanceolate, 3-31 lines long, recurved at the 
vy ts. Drupe nearly an inch long, fleshy, edible. Var. 8. resembles X. laurina, 
.» (X. Americana, var. inermis, Hochst.) but differs in its thick leaves and pedun- 
cles always one-flowered and pubescent. _ Bees * 
Sub-Order IT. Icactnez, > era 
_ Ovary completely unilocular, or excentrically and completely 3- 
locular. Ovules 2 in each cell, collaterally pendulous from the apex of 
a placenta adhering to one side of the ovary, lying one above the other 
(one funiculus being longer). Style excentrical. Seed pendulous. In- 
ee ie A ee, ©. Mey. | 
Calyx free, 4—5-toothed, unchanged in fruit. Petals 4~5, glabrous 
within, united at base, among themselves and with the stamens, 
Stamens 5, all fertile. Ovary one-celled. Frwit ovato-reniform, sub- 
compressed, oblique, with a fleshy protuberance on one side. Benth. 
lc. p. 683. 
Only one species known. — lag oe 
1. A dimidiata (E. Mey.! in Hb. Drege); Benth. Jc. tab. 41. Plee- 
tronia ventosa, Thunb.! in Herb. Holm. (non Auct.) i 
Has. In woods. Grootvadersbosch, Zeyher, No. 2024. Stellenbosch, E. & Z 
