Rhus.] TEREBINTACE® (Sond.) ee S14 
cuneate, tapering base, with revolute margins, pubescent on both sides or 
sub-glabrous, prominently veined below; panicles axillary and terminal, 
Hliform, elongated, lax, villous, the female ones shorter ; drupe globose, 
glabrous. £. villosa, c. H. Mey. in Hb. Drege. 
Har. Zwartkopsrivier, £. ¢ Z./ Boshmansriviershoogde, Zey.! 2237. Draaken- 
Steenberg, 1-2000, Drege. Port Natal, Gueinzius, Sanderson. March. April, (Herb, 
Lehm., T.C.D., Sond.) 
Branches filiform. Petioles furrowed, 4—6 lines long. Leaflets pubescent or vil- 
lous, often glabrous above, and sparsely hairy and paler beneath, the terminal one 
3-1 inch long, 6 lines wide. Panicles slender, lateral ones 1-2 inches, terminal ay 
inches long, pedicels very short. Flowers white, minute. Distinguished from R. 
5a\osa by the much smaller, emarginate, not reticulated leaves, and the long, slender 
yuicle ; from R. obovata by the smaller not tomentose leaves, smaller flowers and 
_  ,7labrous fruit ; from 2. crenata, by the four times longer petioles. 
15. R. pyreides (Burch. Trav. I p. 340) ; leaves petiolate ; leaflets 
sessile or very*short-petiolate, sub-equal, obovate-oblony, obtuse or sub- 
acute, quite entire, as well as the branchlets, covered with close-pressed 
pubescence ; racemes axillary, shorter than the leaves, terminal oneg 
longer, disposed in an elongated, ample, leafless, pubescent panicle ; drupe 
sub-globose, glabrous. DC. 1. ¢. p. 70. R&. villosa, fol. 8. Thunb. herbar. 
: R. pubescens, L. § ZI n, t100, non Thunb. Zey. n. 344. Drege! 6800. 
; Var. 8 glabrata; branches and leaves sub-glabrous or glabrous, 
“-*. panicles pubescent. 2. pyroides, L. Meyer. 
‘< Has. Asbestos mountains, Burchell ; in the districts of Caledon, Worcester,“ /},\° ie 
Cheniage, ‘Athans rie Caffraria, and near Port Natal, 2. g Z./ Drege, Col. Bolton, ch eB 
Sanderson, Williamson, Guienzius. Dec.—Feb. (Herb. Thunb., T.C.D., Sond, &c.) On /, 
_ A shrub, 6-10 feet high; branches sometimes spinous. Petiole $-1 inch, fur. 
rowed above. Leaflets sessile, or the terminal one shortly petiolate, ovate, ovate- 
oblong, or obovate-cuneate, obtuse, acute, or somewhat acuminate, prominent-veined 
on both surfaces, about 2 inches long, 1 inch wide. Terminal panicle sometimes 6 
inches long or longer, arse i, Pasa ey Sse gues flowers -— , < 
i , white, drupe ipe) the size of a peppercorn. pecimnens some 
the loallota pape pee ares B. subdentata, E. Meyer. Distinguished from 
R. villosa by the elon ed, ample tile and minute flowers, but only a 
a Be . es 
a 16. R. tridentata (Sond.) ; branches, petioles, and leaves covered 
2 with close-pressed. pubescence ; leaves petiolate ; leaflets sessile, or the 
‘terminal one shortly petiolate, oblong, with revolute margins, the termi- 
nal one cuneate at the dilated point, 3—-lobed, the medial lobe larger, = 4 
acute, the lateral ones obtuse, mucronulate ; panicles terminal, elongated, y 
leafless, pubescent. a Spain 4 
“2 tee, Pi Gueinzius. (1 . Son tM illo 
ib Fe ereding, Wat ditees by the. eate, 3-lobed or 3-dentate, termi- 
nal leaflet. Petiole 6-9 lines long. Lateral leaflets 13-2 inches long, 6-7 lines 
wide, terminal 2}-3 inches long, at the top 1 inch wide. Panicle as large as in the ~ toe 
preceding ; flowers very minute. : s 
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Pomitiptic tanovolat, mmucronulate, narrowed at base, quite entire, with = 
revolute margins, veined 0 ae 
shorter; drupe globose, glabrous. 
