468 CELASTRINEE (Sond.) [Lauridia. 
obsoletely lobed. Drupe dry or nearly so, with a hard, woody, 5-celled, 
sometimes 2-1 celled stone. Seeds solitary, oblong, exarillate. Hmbryo 
in fleshy albumen ; cotyledons leafy; radicle inferior. DC. Prod. 2. p. 
10. Lam. Ill. t.132. Elwodendron and Chloroxylon, E. & Z.! 
Trees or shrubs, with glabrous, mostly opposite leaves, and axillary, sub-corym- 
bose peduncles ; flowers small, white——Name from eAaa, an olive, and devdpoy, a 
tree ; from some resemblance in foliage to the olive. Eng. name, “ Olive-wood.” 
1, E. Capense (E. & Z.! 979); glabrous ; branches rough with points ; 
leaves sub-opposite, petioled, coriaceous, elliptic-ovate or ovate-oblong, 
sub-acute or acuminate, quite glabrous at both sides, netted-veined, 
remotely serrate, with revolute margin ; panicles simple, dichotomous ; 
drupe ovate or ovate-oblong, 2—3-celled. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3835. E. pa- 
pillosum, Hochst.! in Krauss, Beytr. 42. Ilex crocea, EZ. Mey.! in Hb. 
Drege. Cassine crocea, Presl. ! 
Has. Primitive woods of Zitzekamma and Krakakamma, and at Gauritz River, 
E.&Z.! Swellendam, Mundt! Vanstaadensberg, Zey.! 2191. Port Natal, Kravss/ 
Jul. (Herb. Vind., Lehm., T.C.D., Sond.) 
An erect shrub. Leaves 2-3 inches long, 1-1} inch wide, opposite, or sub-alter- 
nate ; petiole 3-4 lines long, furrowed. Panicle few or many flowered, inch long. 
Pedicels bracteolate. Flowers 4-parted. Ovary sunk in a flat disc. Drupe }-1 inch 
long, red, rugged, with a hard woody nucleus. Seeds mostly 2, sub-compressed, red- 
brown, shining. 
2. E. croceum (DC. Prod. 2. p. 11); glabrous ; branches verrucoso- 
scabrid ; leaves mostly opposite, petioled, oblong, obtuse at each end, or 
obovate, narrowed at both ends, obtuse or retuse, quite glabrous at both 
sides, netted-veined, serrato-crenate ; panicles shorter than the leaf ; 
drupe globose, 4—5-celled. Pappe, Sylv. Cap. p.10. Ilex crocea, Thunb. ! 
Fl. Cap. p. 159. Crocorylon excelsum, E. & Z.! 983. Rhamnus capensis, 
Spreng! Cassine parnfolia, E. Mey.! and Drege No. 6740. Elaodendron 
ones Kunth! Linn. 19. 393. @. Zeyheri, Turcz. Bull. Mose. 1858. 
3. Pp. 452. 
Has. Primitive woods of Krakakamma, Olifantshoek, Adow, Vischriver and Kat 
River, Thunberg, E. & Z./ Drege! &c. Fi. Jul. fr. Apl.-May. (Herb. Lehm., Sond.) 
A tree, 20-40 f. high, 2-4 f. in diameter. Wood hard, yellow, “Saffranhout.” 
Branches terete, grey, alternate or crowded ; twigs sub- . Leaves 2 inch 
long, } inch wide, less coriaceous than in EZ. capense, but more netted, the sub-re- 
| margin with small serratures, spinulous on the young leaves. Peduncles in 
a corymbose panicle } or } of the leaf ; or several undivided one flowered pedicels, 
jointed in the middle. Calyx 4 parted, obtuse. Petals 4, 14 line long. St. 4, shorter 
than the petals. Ovary sunk in a 4 lobed fleshy disc, 4 angled, 2 celled ; cells 2 
ovuled. Style short ; stigma obsoletely lobed. Drupe the size of a small cherry. 
Seeds 1-2.—Salacia Zeyheri, Planch.—Harv. supra, 230, proves to be merely 
an abnormal state of this tree, with triandrous flowers, stamens, &c. ! 
