Seytophyllum.]} CELASTRINEZ (Sond.) 471 
Leaves longer than the internodes, the larger 2-24 inches long, 1~1} inch wide ; the 
smaller 1-14 inch long, 6-8 lines wide. Petiole 2 lines long. Pedune. of fruit 2-4 
together (the flowering probably more numerous), 1 line long. Drupe the size of a 
small pea, 
2. Fruit of large size, almost juiceless. (Sp. 6.) 
6. M. macrocarpum (Sond.); branches and twigs minutely pubescent ; 
leaves short-petioled, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, obtuse, or sub-excised, 
the recurved margin serrate, glabrous above, pubescent beneath; umbels 
axillary, pedunculate ; peduncles pubescent ; drupe very large, globose, 
one-seeded, 
Has. Between the Omtata and Omsamwubo, below 1000 f. Drege! 5612, b. (non 
a. Celastr, undatis). (Herb. Sond.) Ss 
.__ 4 shrub or tree with terete, grey branches. Larger leaves 24 inches long, 14-2 
ches wide, coriaceous, netted at both sides, the margin acutely toothed. Petiole 
2 lines long. Common peduncle 2-4 lines long. Calyx persistent, 5 parted, with 
obtuse lobes. Petals wanting. Drupe blueish, as large as a Bullace-plum, or 8-9 
lines in diameter. Seed erect, with a shining chestnut skin. 
X. SCYTOPHYLLUM, E. & Z. 
Calyx minute, 5-parted. Petals 5, sub-orbicular, narrowed at base. 
Disc teal. elobode Stamens 5, saad between the lobes of the disc. 
Style short ; stigma 2-lobed. Ovary sub-immersed in the disc, 2-celled ; 
the cells 2-ovuled. Drupe rather dry, oblique, 1-2 celled, one-seeded, 
rarely 2-seeded. Seed erect, covered with a thin, membranous aril ; testa 
coriaceous. Hmbryo in fleshy albumen ; radicle inferior. #. & Z./ 
NUM. p. 124. 
1. §. laurinum 
or oblong, obtuse, sub-emargim 
panicled, the panicle much 
Theunb.! Fl. Cap. 217. Hb. 
965, excl. syn. Cel. laurinus a 
Lam. Ill. No. 2695. 
eda ee 
Has. Common on bills roun . and near Tulbagh, &e.; Thunberg, E.G Z.! Drege, Hn" f 
~ 6 Bergvallei and Langvallei, Zey./ 306 8., Drege 1 6724,% 4" 
‘Thunb., Lam., Lehm., T.C.D., Sond. 
me is td cbtinely nerved after being dried, une- _ ¢ 
Flowers minute, white. Drupe obovate, 
. “C. oleoides” Krauss! from Natal, 
eq ; its stamens are opposite the petals, ae 
