Maurocenia. | CELASTRINEE (Sond.) 465 
V. MAUROCENIA, L. (r¢/:) 
Calyx minute, 5—parted. Petals 5, longer than the calyx. Hypogynous- 
disc annular, circling the ovary. Stamens 5, alternate with the petals, 
and longer than them ; anthers roundish. Ovary sessile, 3-celled ; ovules 
in pairs (or solitary), pendulous from the inner angle of the cell. Style 
very short ; stigma 3-lobed. Drupe somewhat juicy, 2, 3, or 1 seeded, 
with a hard stone (putamen). Seed inverted ; testa coriaceous ; aril 
_ none. Hmbryo in fleshy albumen ; cotyledons flat ; radicle superior. 
Maurocenia and Cassine, sp. Mill. Dict. Cassine sp. Linn. Gen., Lam., DC. 
A glabrous shrub, with uadrangular twigs, opposite, coriaceous, quite entire 
Seaton, and axillary cymoid RR of small, white flowers. Ni; si honour 
of a noble Venetian horticulturist, F. Mauroceni. 
M. capensis (Sond.) Cassine Maurocenia, Linn. Sp. p. 385. Willd. 
Sp. £. p. 1493. Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 268. #H.&§ Z.! 984. Hook. Ic. Pl. 
552. Frangula sempervirens, &c., Dill. Elth. 146. t, 121. f. 147. 
Has. East side of Table Mountain, and about Camps Bay, F. § Z./ d&c. common. 
Dec. (Herb. Sond., T.C.D., &e.) : : oe 
__ An erect shrub, 4-5 feet high. Branches terete ; twigs purplish, angular. Leaves 
~ Very short-petioled, sub-orbicular, elliptical, ovate or obovate, obtuse, slightly emar- 
ginate, with the margin revolute, thick, shining, often livid beneath, 2-2} inches 
long, 13-2 inches wide. Peduncles crowded, 3-4 lines long, 1 flowered or branched, 
panicled, Calyx obtuse, fimbriate. Petals toothed. Drupe oval, as large as a 
cherry, Engl. name, “Hottentot Cherry.” 
“eg VL CASSINE, L. (ex pte.) 
4-5, inserted under the disc, shorter than the petals or nearly as | 
with a hard stone (putamen). Seed erect ; aril none ; embryo in fleshy 
albumen ; cotyledons flat; radicle inferior. ee 
Glabrous, erect or climbing shrubs, with 4-angled twigs oe emangt uthery, very 
entire or serrated “sites sad axillary cymoid inflorescences small white flowers. 
generic name is unexplained. . 
