458 CELASTRINEZ (Sond.) [ Celastrus. 
long, cymose, with spreading branches. Flowers white. Petals ovate-oblong. Style 
scarcely any, stigma 3-lobed. Ovules in pairs. Capsule 3 lines long, scarcely 
attenuate at base. Seed oval-oblong, imperfectly arillate.—This resembles C. polya- 
canthus, but has thicker, not penninerved leaves, larger panicles, and larger flowers, 
stamens, and ovary. 
15. C. capitatus (E. Mey! in Hb. Drege); glabrous, very spiny, the 
spines strong; leaves tufted, obovate-cuneate, emarginate, very entire, co- 
riaceous ; panicles axillary, capitate-glomerate, thrice as short as the leaf; 
capsules triguetrous, 3-celled, 3-seeded. C. rigidus, EH. & Z.! 947. &. 
Mey. in Hb. Drege. 
Has. Woods at the Zwartkops River, Z. ¢ Z./_Karroo at Koega Kammaskloof, 
Zey./ 2177, 2178. Graaf Reynet, Mrs. F,W. Barber / Fish River and near Basche, 
Drege! (Herb. E. Mey., Hook., T.C.D., Sond.) 
A rigid shrub, 2 or more feet high ; the branches secund, twigs very short and 
leafy. Spines horizontal, 1-2 uncial, terete, sometimes leafy. Leaves 3-1 inch 
long, 3-4 lines wide, flat, very smooth above, sometimes obsoletely veiny beneath, 
the smaller obcordate ; petioles very short. Fl. 5-fid, small, white, numerous, 
crowded : peduncles branched or simple. Petals 1 line long, equalling the stamens. 
Style trifid. Capsule apiculate, with hard valves, 3 lines long. Seeds oval, incom- 
pletely arillate. 
16. C. heterophyllus (E. & Z.! 943); glabrous, spiny; the branches 
angularly eiiate? a ape lender eee Setieeroue: leaves tufted, 
sub-solitary on the younger twigs, elliptical, obovate-cuneate or ellip- 
tico-lanceolate, obtuse, acute or sub-acuminate, spinuloso-serrate or sub- 
entire, netted beneath ; panicles axillary, cymose, short, often glomerate ; 
capsules rather large, trigonous, 3-celled, 3-1 seeded. C. cymosus and 
parvifolius, E. § Z.! 948 & 949. Catha heterophylla and cymosa, 
Pratt 
Var &. glomeratus; leaves obovate or sub-orbicular apiculate, den- 
tato-serrate; panicles glomerate, equalling the leaf or shorter. C. glo- 
meratus, H, Mey.! in Hb. Drege. 
Has. Woods at Olifant’s Hoek and Bosjesmansriver, in Adow, Zwarthoogdens, 
Hassagaisbosch, and Grahamstown, £. ¢ Z./ 7. Williamson, Zey! 2181. H. Hutton! 
Drege, 6730, B. between Gekau and Basche, Drege! (Herb. Hook., T.C.D., Sond.) 
A much branched shrub, 2-4 ft. high, with spreading, spiny, or sub-unarmed 
branches , the spines patent, 4-6 lines, rarely 1 inch long, sometimes leaf and flower 
bearing. Leaves very unequal, polymorphous, always larger than in the preceding, 
some 1-14 inches long and 6-9 lines wide, others 8-9 lines long and 5 wide ; in var. 
B. the lower 3-1 inch long and wide, obtuse at base, with a recurved or acute point, 
upper 6-4 lines long. Petiole 1 line long. Panicle 3-5 flowered or 7-12 fi. sub- 
sessile, ch aaa eee always shorter than the leaf, “Fi. small and white, 4-5 fid. 
: Stamens short. — ule as large as a pea, reddish; seed obovate, with a thin, 
tsar may possibly be (, savatilis, Burch. Trav. 2. p. 264, from Kor 
17. ©. elliptions (Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 218); glabrous, with small 
post 6 ves tufted, the upper solitary, linear-oblong, obtuse, greatly 
moid; capsule 
945, non Th. 
Has, Woods at Amite: 
trigonous, about seeded. C. integer, E. § Z.! 
te, at Zwartkops R, and Vanstaadensberge, E. & 
