456 _  CELASTRINEE (Sond.) [ Celastrus. 
wide at the points, rarely wider, but often smaller. Panicle semi-uncial, and flowers 
minute, like those of the preceding. Fruit unknown.—C, Willemetie, E. Mey! in 
Hb. Drege, seems the same as this. The few branches collected by Drege are un- 
armed ; the leaves are tufted, uncial, 2-3 lines wide, the panicle equalling the leaf, 
and the capsule obovate or sub-globose, 2~3 valved, 2-seeded. 
8. C. lanceolatus (E. Mey! in Hb. Drege) ; glabrous, spiny ; leaves 
solitary, Zanceolate, narrowed at base, blunt, mucronulate, closely denti- 
culate at the margin, penninerved on both sides, glaucous ; panicles 
axillary, cymose, many flowered, 4-5 times shorter than the leaf; petals 
oblong, longer than the stamens ; ovary 2-celled ; cells 2 -ovuled. Catha 
patens, Presi. l. ¢. 
Haz. Mouth of the Gariep, Drege! Sep. (Herb. Sond. T.C.D.) 
Branches greyish-white; twigs lax, virgate. Spines 1-2 uncial. Leaves patent, 
sub-coriaceous, 24-3 uncial, 4-6 lines wide, some smaller ; petiole 1-2 lines long. 
Panicle $ inch long. Fl. minute, s—parted: Ovary 2, rarely 3-celled. sa ag very 
short, stigma 2-lobed. Fruit unknown.—Differs from (. polyacanthus in the long- 
lanceolate leaves, much longer than the panicle; from C.. linearis by the much 
broader and penninerved leaves. 
9. C. tenuispinus (Sond.); glabrous, except the leaves, spiny ; spines 
slender, short; leaves tufted, linear-oblong or oblong, narrowed into a 
short petiole, mucronulate, or sub-emarginate, minutely denticulate, one- 
nerved, nearly veinless, minutely downy beneath and on the petiole ; pa 
nicle axillary, few flowered, much shorter than the leaf. 
_ Has. Macallisberg, Burke 20. Zey! 305. (Herb. Hook., T.C.D., Sond.) 
_ A greyish shrub, with erecto-patent branches, and sub-terete flexuous twigs 
Spimes 3-6 lines long, leaves often not tufted on the young branches, membranous, 
scarcely coriaceous, uncial, 2-3 lines wide, Petiole 1 line long. Panicle or eymule 
on a peduncle 2-3 lines long. Flowers minute, unopened. Readily known by its 
pores leaves. The capsule being unknown, its exact position in the genus is uncer 
. 
** Capsule sub-globose, 3-angled or sharply 3-edged. Catha, Endl. (Sp- 10-21-) 
| g, veiny, dentato-. 
rt, capsule 2-3 valved, 1-3 
