Celastrus. | CELASTRINE& (Sond.) 459 
Z1 Thunberg, Zey.! 2180 and Cel. No, 6. Enon and Zuureberg, Drege! 6729, 
6734- (Herb. Thunb., Sond.) 
An erect, greyish shrub, called, “‘ Kammassie-hout” by the colonists. Spines 3-4 
lines long. Leaves from an obtuse or mucronulate or emarginate apex, tapering 
dually into the petiole, 14 inch long, 3 lines wide or less glaucous. Panicle aA sep 
culate, longer or shorter than the leaf, branches spreading. Flowers small, 5 fid, 
rarely 4~fid. Petals oblong, t line long. Capsule as large as a pea, mucronulate. It 
differs from C. polyacanthus by its short, less frequent spines and thick leaves, without 
veins above, rugulose beneath ; from C. integrifolius by the short spines, long-taper- 
ing leaves, often crenulate, and trigonous, not ¢riquetrous capsules. 
18, C. buxifolius (Linn. Sp. 285); glabrous, spiny; branches angu- 
lar; leaves tufted, ovate or obovate-oblong, tapering at base, obtuse or 
emarginate, serrulato-dentate or crenulate, veiny on both sides; panicles 
axillary, corymbose, pedunculate, shorter or longer than the leaf; cap- 
sules sub-globose, trigonous, 3-celled, 3-2 seeded. Thunb. prod. p. 42. 
Fl. Cap. 220. Houtt. PA. Syst. 3. t. 21. f. 1. Catha buc«ifolia, Presl. 1. c. 
Var. a. genuinus; spines mediocre, small or obsolete ; leaves obo- 
vate-oblong, emarginate, cuneate, 1-24 inch long, #-1 inch wide or 
wider, panicle mostly many-flowered: either (#«) equalling the leaf or 
longer. C. buaifolius, humilis, and goniecaulis, E. & Z.! 942, 944, 940. 
Drege! 6735. Zey! 304: or (88) panicle solitary or several together, 
many-flowered, half as long as the leaf, or equalling it. C. cymosus, 
Sol. Bot. Mag; 2070, spinis nudis. C. multiflorus, E. § Z.! 951, spinis 
Aooriferis. 
Var. 8. laxiflorus; spines mediocre, small or obsolete; leaves obo- 
vate or obov.-oblong, obtuse or sub-acute, sub-membranaceous, 24 inch 
long, 1 inch wide; panicle lax and mostly few-flowered. C. patens and 
spathephyllus, B. § Z.! 939, 950. C. leptopus, Bernh, in Hb, Krauss. 
Catha patens and spathophylla, Prest. ae 
Var. y. venenatus; spines strong, very long, the lower 6 inches ; 
leaves obovate-oblong, 2-24 inches long, 6-9 lines wide ; panicles 3B 
gregate, many flowered, shorter than the leaf. @. venenatus, L. § A. 
952, Zey! 2182. Drege, 6733. Catha venenata, Pres. 
Var. 6. empleurifolius; spines small or obsolete; leaves obversely — 
lanceolate, obtuse or sub-acute, 2 inches long, 4~6 lines wide, panicle 
equalling the leaf or twice shorter. C. empleurrfolius, E. § - 9: 53, fol. 
membranaceis. C. polyanthemos, E. § Z.! 954, fol. coriaceis. Zey 3179. 
Var «. glomeruliflorus; almost unarmed ; leaves tie: ghia 
obtuse, crenulate, much attenuate at base, 2-3 inches long, : os 
wide ; panicle much branched, sub-sessile, dense, much shorter than the 
leaf. 
Has. Common from Capetown to Port Natal, in one or other of its multifarious as Pe { 
t, . 0, D. &e, = 2 : 
na png lira encoy ae high. Spines a naked or leafy, rarely floriferous, pa- 
tent. Twigs often unarmed. Leaves unequal, obtuse #95 a a os 
shor ioles. small, whi fid. Petals oblong, much longer 
cal poco re pirates Centulen ts size of a small pea, rarely larger. Var. < 
(from Camtous river) may be a species ; but we have seen but a single, unarm 
twig of it. CO. multiflorus, Lam. Enc. Meth, 1. 663. seems to be a var, of C. busifo- 7 
4ius; it does not exist in Herb. Lamk. 
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