474 AQUIFOLIACE (Sond.) [ Monetia. 
1, C. Capensis (Sond.) Cassine ilicifolia, Hochst. Pl. Krauss. Har- 
togia ilicifolia, Hochst. in Krauss, Bertr. p. 42. Cassine mucronata, Turcz. 
Bullet. Mose. 1858, No. 11. p. 455+ 
Has. Primitive Woods of Outeniqua, George, Krauss. Grootvadersbosch, Zey/ 
2209. (Herb. Vind., Sond., T.C.D.) 
A shrub. Branches terete, shining, flexuous, glabrescent. Spines terete, very 
acute, 4 inch long, in the forks of the branches or opposite the leaves. Leaves shortly 
petioled, those of the lower branches ovate, sub-acuminate, tipped with an obtuse 
mucro, } line long, obtuse at base, at length shining above, paler beneath, opaque, 
with alternate, prominent, primary veins, remotely spinuloso-serrulate or sub-entire, 
glabrous, 13-3 inch long, 12-14 lines wide. Leaves of the flowering branches smaller 
and narrower, I-11 inch long, 6-9 lines wide, narrowed at base. Petiole keeled, 
2-3 lines long. Panicle or corymb scarcely half inch long, with a common peduncle 
2-3 lines long. Flowers small. Corolla 1 line long, thrice as long as the pubescent, 
ovate, sub-acute calyx-lobes, its segments oblong, or oblong-lanceolate, downy exter- 
nally. Stamens shorter than the petals. Style short. Drupe tipped with the style, — 
compressed, as big as a large pea. Seed compressed. 
-TIL.? MONETIA, L’Her.. 
Flowers dioecious. Calyx campanulate, shortly 4—5-cleft, the seg- 
ments separate or cohering, valvate in wstivation. Petals 4-5, hypogy- 
nous, linear-lanceolate, spreading, longer than the calyx, with valvate 
estivation, Stamens as many as the petals and alternate with them, 
inserted into the margin of a fleshy, hypogynous disc ; filaments erect, 
subulate ; anthers erect, introrse, 2 celled, versatile—? Calya and 
corolla as in the ¢. Stamens abortive. Ovary free, 2-celled, the sep- 
tum thin and membranous, ovules solitary, anatropous, erect or ascend- 
‘ing from the base of the cell ; stigma sessile, globose, sub-bilobed. 
Berry 1-2-seeded. Seed exalbuminous, with a thin testa ; embryo len- 
ticular, green ; cotyledons fleshy, cordate and eared at base, the ears 
over-lapping and concealing the long, straight radicle, Endl, Gen. 5711. 
_ An erect, glabrous shrub, with opposite branches and twigs. ‘Leaves opposite, 
erga with axillary, solitary or binate spines, Flowers small and greenish, in 
ense axillary fascicles. Name in honour of M. Monet, better known as the Chevaher 
de Lamarck, a very distinguished botanist and zoologist of the last century. 
1. Mw. barlerioides (L’Her. Stirp. Nov. fase. 1. p. 1). Spreng. Syst. 
Veg. 1. p. 442. <Azima tetracantha, Lam. Encycl. Bot. 1. p. 343. Illustr. 
t. 807, Zey.! No. 4653. Drege, 6749, a. 
Has. Zwartkopsriver, E. & Z.! Drege! Nov.-Jan. (Herb. T.C.D., Sond. &.) 
An erect, glabrous shrub, 3 or 4 feet high ; branches opposite, 4—angled, divari- 
cated, aculeate ; leaves opposite, on short petioles, ovate, pungent, entire, glabrous, 
coriaceous, about an inch long. Spines solitary or geminate, linear, spreading, / 
inch . Flowers small, white, sub-pedunculate ; males in axillary glomerated 
spikes ; les sub-solitary or in 3-flowered cymes, axillary or terminal. Berry 
