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Celastrus. | CELASTRINEE (Sond.) 455. 
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Haz. Among shrubs, East side of Table Mt., Pape, Krauss. Zwarteberg, Ge Symart (de 
nadendal, Grahamstown, Winterberg and Kat River, &. ¢ £./ Drackenstein and the 
Paarl, Drege, W.H.H. Winterhoeksberg, Krauss. Krakakamma and Howison’s 
Poort, Zeyher! 2186, 2188, 2189, and several other localities. 8. Zitzekamma, 
oe. = Omtata, Ecklon, Drege, 6745, 6746. (Herb. Thunb., Lam., E. Mey., 
-C.D., Sond.) 
A shrub 5~6 feet, or a tree 12-15 feet high, with a trunk 7-12 inches diameter, 
the branches and twigs spreading. Leaves unequal, sub-coriaceous, veiny on both 
sides, the margin flat or recurved, the serratures acute or obtuse; petiole 2 lines 
long, Peduncles 2-4, capillary, one flowered, 2-3 lines long, or cymose or umbellate 
on & common pedunc, }-1 line long, rarely proliferously many flowered. Calyx 4-5 
fid, obtuse. Petals 4-5, elliptic-orbicular, 4 times longer than the calyx. Stamens 
4-§, very short. Ovary 3-2 celled ; style scarcely any, stigma thick, obsoletely lobed. 
Capsule 3 lines long, 2~—3 lobed, bivalve, abortively one-seeded. Seed ovate-oblong, 
with a thin aril_—T'wo sub-varieties may be distinguished by the form of leaf :—a, 
with ovate or elliptic rhomboid, sub-acute or acuminate leaves, sub-obtuse at base 
and minutely or coarsely serrate, the larger 2~3 inches long, 1-14 inch wide: 8. with 
elliptic-oblong, long-acuminate, sometimes obliquely mucronate leaves, cuneate at 
base and quite entire, the larger 2-3 inches long, 3-1 inch wide. 
(b.) Armed with spines. Leaves narrow. (Sp. 6-9.) 
6. C. linearis (Linn. f. Suppl. 153); spiny, quite glabrous, glaucous ; 
leaves short-stalked, linear, remotely toothed or entire, one-nerved, vein- 
less, coriaceous panicles axillary, cymose, many flowered, 2-3 times 
shorter than the leaf ; capsules ovato-sub-globose, bivalve, 2-celled, 2-1 
seeded, Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 219. C. stenophyllus, B. § Z.! 955. Eucen- 
trus linearis, Presl. Bot. Bem. p. 33. Polyacanthus stenophyllus, Prest. l. e. 
Has. Woods at Zondagriver, Graaf Reynet and Uitenhage. Thunberg, E.& Z.! 
ir cesta Drege! Dec.-Jan. (Herb. Thunb., E, Mey., Lehm., T.C.D. Hook., 
nd.) 
A greyish white shrub, with curved branches. Spines horizontal, 1-2 inches long, 
Sometimes opposite, leafy, Leaves spreading, acute or obtuse, flat, 2-3 inches long, 
2 lines wide. Panicle 2 inches long, the branches spreading, level-topped. Flowers 
minute, white, 4-5 fid on the same branch. Calyx persistent. Petals oblong, as 
long, or longer than the stamens. Ovary 3, ig celled. Style trifid. Capsule 
2 lines long, mucronulate or obtuse, 2-3 valved, the cells 1, rarely 2 seeded. ieciese 
oval-oblong, apiculate, raphe linear, testa shining chesnut, aril incomplete, cotyle: 
dons rounded, radicle short, cylindrical.—Does C. linearis, Burch. Trav. ris 133, 
from the Snowy mountains, belong here? ie es aay 
7. ©. polyacanthus (Sond.); quite glabrous, very spiny; spines 
strong ; ianchos ee leaves tufted or solitary, minutely petioled, 
linear-cuneate, or linear-oblong, obtuse or emarginate, crenulate or quite 
entire, membranaceous, i-nerved at each side, panicles axillary, cy- 
: ‘ the leaves or half as short; stamens 
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