Mystroxylon.} CELASTRINEE (Sond) — 469 
A shrub with terete branches, opposite, ovate, very entire or sparingly toothed, 
netted veined leaves, and panicled, aeillany racemes of small white oe Remark. 
able by its general habit and inflorescence ; possibly hereafter to be united with Cas- 
sine, unless better characters should be found in its imperfectly known fruits and 
. ae name is an alteration of Lawrus ; because the foliage resembles that of 
a laure 
1. L. reticulata (E. & Z.! 968.) L. rupicola, B. & Z.! 969. 
Has. Among shrubs at Zoutpanshoogde, at Zwartkops R., and in Winterhoek, 
Uit.; also at Bothasberg, Grahamstown. E. d Z.! 7’. Williamson / Hills at Elands 
River, Zey.! 2198. (Herb. Lehm., T.C.D., Sond.) : 
Au erect, glabrous shrub, 8-10 feet high, trichotomously branched, with grey 
bark ; the twigs angular. Leaves 1-2 inches long, very variable in form, erect, 
ovate, obovate, sub-orbicular, ovate-oblong or oblong, often acute, rarely obtuse or 
emarginate, rounded or somewhat narrowed at base, very smooth above, netted- 
veined beneath, and traversed by a thick midrib, coriaceous, rigid, with sub-revolute 
margin. Petiole thickish, 2 lines long. Racemes panicled, } inch long. Flowers 
white, about 1 line long, the upper ones on the same rachis sessile, the lower sub- 
ternate at the tips of short pedicels. Rachis and pedicels short, angular, furnished 
with minute, acute, persistent bracts. Calyx obtuse. Petals twice as long. Drupe, 
of which very few have been examined, as large as a small pea, roundish and reddish. 
<6 IX. MYSTROXYLON, E. & Z. 
Calyx minute, 5-lobed. Petals 5, spreading, roundish-ovate. Stamens 
5, short. Ovary sitting on a furrowed, fleshy disc, 2 celled ; ovules in 
pairs, erect. Style very short ; stigma obsoletely bi-lobed. Drape dry 
or fleshy, globose or ovato-globose, with a hard, 2-celled or one-celled 
stone, 1-2 seeded, seed erect, exarillate ; raphe linear; embryo in sub- 
horny albumen. £. & Z.! p.125. Elodendron, sp. Endl. = 
i es, and sm umbellate, mostly 
ewes Sea Pa waits w a Cosas into Gres of the colonial « Lapelhout 
8poon-wood. ‘ 
1. Fruit quite juiceless, small. (Sp. 1-8.) 
* Leaves serrate or crenate ; umbels pedunculate. (Sp. 1-4.) 
1. M. confertiflorum (Tulasn. Ann. Se. Nat. 1857, Bot. p. 106) ; 
branches terete, the re glabrous or downy; leaves petioled, ovate, 
obovate or elliptical, obtuse, shortly emarginate, cuneate at base, crenate 
or callous-serrulate, netted-veined at both sides, shining, coriaceous, 
glabrous; umbels short-peduncled, axillary, dense, glabrous or Sala 
drupe broadly ovate, apiculate ; seed ovate. Cassine wthiopica, o u a : 
#1. Cap. 269. Mystr. athranthum, spilocarpum and sessiliflorum, § Z. 
973, 974, 975. I. spherophyllum, Pl. Krauss! 
Var. 8. leptocarpum ; drupe oblong, apiculate ; seed oblong. 
ee , Olifantshoek, and at the Zeekoe 
Has. Woods at the Zwartkops River, in Adow. 229 36. Port Natal, 
» E. & Z.1 Krauss! Zey.! 2199, ex pte. Zuureberge, Drege, 
Gua? fg tees ig dy I Nov.—Dee. fr. July. (Herb. Thunb., 
Vind., Lehm .D., Sond. : 
a 1 hbo han ticks se Lea fas shrub ; branches ashen ; twigs cers 
Leaves 1-1} inch long or less, ing from orbicular to oblong, some very thic’ 
others thinner, sub-coriaceous, bark § a flat or undulato-crenate margin, or serrulate 
or sub-entire, Petiole 1-2 lines long. Pedune. solitary, rarely 2, 1-3 lines long 
(in M. sessiliflorum, E. & Z.! not shorter than in the others). Umbels 12-20 flowered, 
pedicels 4-1 line long. Flowers 2 line long. Stamens 4 of petals. Drupe as large 
48 a pea, one seeded. Var. 8., in other respects like a., differs in having a drupe - 
4-6 lines long, 2-2} wide. ae 
