Lleodendron.| CELASTRINEZ (Sond.) 467 
cordate-ovate, obtuse, sub-emarginate, undulato-serrate, netted at both 
ads aot beneath; cymes on long peduncles, few flowered ; drupe 1-2 
seeded. 
Var. 8. heterophylla; lower leaves ovate, upper ovate-oblong, cor- 
date at base. Celastrus heterophyllus, E. Mey.! 
Has. Woods at Plettenberg Bay, #. & Z./ B. Rocky places on the Witberg, 
5000 f. Drege (Herb. E. Mey., Sond.) F 
A tall shrub with alternate, brownish grey branches, and lax, mostly trifid a 
Leaves equalling the internodes, 1}-13 inch long, 8-15 lines wide, some smaller, flat 
or with sub-revolute margins, serrulate, the teeth often spinigerous on the young 
» leaves, mostly obtuse on the older 3 herves prominent on both surfaces. Petiole } 
line long. Common peduncles 6-9 lines long ; cyme 6-12 flowered. Flowers mi- 
"Rute, 5 fid. Drupe as large as a pea, In var. B. the upper leaves ‘are 3-34 tabs 
long, inch wide, with short obtuse acumination ; the petiole }-1 line long. This 
differs from C. barbara by the long, slender, flexuous, subscandent branches, much 
thinner leaves, veiny at both sides, and the lax, few flowered panicle. 
6. C. Albanensis (Sond.) ; stem terete, flexuous, sub-scandent ;— 
branches divaricate ; twigs angular; leaves sub-coriaceous, petiolate, 
Cvate, obtuse or obtusely acuminate, emarginate, undulato-serrate, netted- 
Veined at both sides, obtuse or a little narrowed at base ; panicle tricho- 
tomons, half as long as the leaf ; ovary bilocular. ; 
een, . W. Barber! (Herb. T.C.D.) _ es 
cn the ped EE ta 3 dice, Petivie 2 lines long. Leaves 1-2 
inches long, 1 inch wide, not cordate but mostly narrowed at base, green above, 
mostly livid beneath, Panicles lax ; common peduncle’ 3-4 lines long, twice or 
thrice-trichotomous, its branches bracteate at base, the ultimate pedicel 3-flowered. 
Flowers sessile, minute, 5 fid. Petals oblong. Fruit unknown. 
2. C. scandens (E. & Z.! 989).; glaucous ; stem flexuous, scandent, 
4-6-winged ; aes divaricate, 4~angled; leaves short-petioled, oblong, 
obtuse or sub-acute, sub-cordate at base, undulato-serrate, sub-coriaceous, 
netted-veined on both sides ; ¢ axillary, pedunculate, 2-3 times 
shorter than the leaf; drupe sub-globose, mostly one-seeded. = gyi 
ragonus, Thunb.! prod. p. 42. Rhamnus tetragonus, Thunb. ! Fl. Cap. 
: : L. refractus, E. Mey.f om = 
vate-oblong, or ovate, obtuse, sub-cordate 
va ‘Adow, also near Galgebooch, E.G Z.1 
ie Sep.-Dec. (Herb. Thunb., Lehm., 
) fing, 
long, 6-9 lines wide, but the lower 
: and narrower. In var. 8. they are 2-23 
1 A ae u ev roe ma argin in. and : shor aiycalteg 
wus serratures. Common peduncles 4-6 lines long, equal- 
ay nate pedicels with clustered ap at 
: nbriate, das as . St. short. 
gota fas Fa 
nt, broad at base. Stamens 
et. ade. goa — 
