464 CELASTRINE (Sond.) [ Hartogia. 
1. M. glaucum (E. & Z.! lc); Hartogia Thea, EH. Mey.! in Hb. 
Drege. 
Has. Mountains on the right bank of the Zwartkey River and Windvogelsberg 
Mt., Tambukiland, £. & Z./ Klipplaat R. and Zwartkey, Drege! Nov. (Herb. 
Lehm., T.C.D., Sond.) 
A glabrous shrub, 8-12 feet high, with the aspect of Hartogia, with terete 
branches, and compressed, opposite, fastigiate, greyish glaucous twigs. Leaves op- 
posite, lanceolate, acuminate at each end, sub-emarginate, with revolute margin, 
repando-serrate, coriaceous, glaucous, netted with veins, 2-4 inches long, 6-9 lines 
wide. Panicles axillary, 8-12 flowered, much shorter than the leaf, dichotomous, 
fastigiate ; the pedicels divaricate, bracteolate at base. Calyx obtuse. Petals 1 line 
long. Capsule (unripe) 2 lines long. Seeds unknown. 
O~1 IV. HARTOGIA, Thunb. 
Calyx 4-5 fid. Petals 4-5, obovate-oblong, patent. Hypogynous-disc 
fleshy, 4-5 lobed. Stamens 4-5, inserted between the lobes of the dise. 
Ovary 2-celled ; cells 1-ovuled. Style short, thick; stigma 2-lobed, the 
lobes emarginate. Drupe dry, ovate, 2-celled, 2-seeded, often abortively 
one-seeded. Seed erect, exarillate, with a coriaceous coat ; albumen 
none ; cotyledons leafy, elliptical ; radicle short, cylindrical, inferior. - 
Endl. Gen. 5687. | 
Shrubs with opposite, coriaceous, glaucous leaves, with revolut -serrulate mar- 
Peduncles axillary, cymose or panicled ; flowers minute, , pedicellate. 
Coplon. in memory of John Hartog, an early Dutch traveller in South Africa and 
: mn. 
1. HL eapensis (Thunb, Diss. nov, pl. Gen. 5. p. 35, cum icone) ; leaves 
petiolate, ovato-lanceolate or lanceolate, acuminate, obtusely emarginate, 
serrate ; panicles axillary, pedunculate. Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 142. B.S 
Z.! 980. Schrebera schinndes, Th. nov. act. Ups. 1. p. G1. Sef Te 
Var. a. lanceolata ; leaves lanceolate, narrowed at each end, ] panicle 
lax, cernuous, much shorter than the leaf, H. capensis, E. § 2.1 980. 
Var. 8. latifolia; leaves larger, ovate-oblong, obtuse, more or less 
narrowed at base ; panicle lax, much shorter than the leaf. H. riparta, 
E. § Z.! 982. 
Var. y. multiflora ; leaves smaller, obovate or ovate-oblong, obtuse, 
rather narrowed at base ; panicle cernuous or sub-erect, many flowered, 
yh = red as the leaf. H. multiflora, B. § Z./! 981. H. capensis B., 
BE ag _Grootvacdersbosch, and woods near the Zonderende, Thunb./ Breede River, 
yuri and 24 rivers, FE. ¢ Z./ Zey.! 2206, 307. Dutoitskloof, Drege! 
iB. near Sal Bay, #.&Z./ -y. at Paarlberg, Drege! Tulbagh, EB. d& Z./ Aug: 
rik or i ery 
so that the unopened flowers look Peti hh line. 
pars = Heese « glomerated. Petals 1} line long. Calyx ¢ 
bi ; = Yor on : Yoteterat 7 arta — Seeds ovate ; testa black 
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