Rhus.] TEREBINTACE& (Sond.) | 517 
_ Has. Cape flats and in mountains near Capetown : Kampsbay and Zwartk 
rivier, May.Jun. (Herb. Thunb, Sond. T.c.D,&) > a Seas 4 
; A shrub, with greyish branches and sub-flexuous branchlets. Petioles 3-4 lines 
ong, small-winged. Leaflets thick, parallel-nerved, flat or with sub-revolute mar- h- Sch 
gins, glaucous, pulverulent, or resinous, shining, or livid beneath, the terminal ”' ey 
one very cuneate, 6-8 lines long, 5-6 lines wide, emarginate, with or without a 
mucro, sometimes obtusely 3-dentate ; the lateral ones smaller. Panicles 1-11 inch 
or longer. ; Flowers minute. Drupe reddish, shining, the size of a small or large 
pea.— Specimens from the Paris bot. gardens, sent by ontaines to Prof. Schrader, 
are not different from those in the herbarium of Thunberg. Z 
35. R. lucida (Linn. spec. 382) ; glabrous, or branches pulverulent- 
puberulous; leaves shortly petiolate ; leaflets sessile, obovate, quite 
entire, very blunt, somewhat emarginate, quite smooth, glossy, without 
Prominent nerves on both sides or above ; panicles axillary and terminal, 
shorter or a little longer than the leaves, glabrous ; flowers hermaphro- 
dite ; drupe globose, glabrous. 2. lucida, 8. Ait. hort. Kew. ed. 2. vol. 
2. p. 166, _Commel. hort. 1. t. 93. Thunb.! fl. cap. p. 264. Jacq, hort. 
Schoenb. t. 347. DC. Prod. 2. p. 69. H. & Z.! n. 1113. Drege, n. 6802, 
6807. Zeyh. n. 2235. Herb. Un. itin. n. 684. Pappe. sylv, cap. p. 13. 
Van. 8. subdentata (DC. L c.); some of the leaflets a little toothed. 
Drege, n. 6791. : 
Var.-y. elliptica ; leaflets elliptic, obtuse, cuneate at base, livid and 
veined beneath. « 
Has. On hills and mountains, amongst shrubs, in the Cape and Swellendam dis- ty wae’ Q 
tricts ; Klynriviers Caledon ; Howison’s Poort, Paarlberg, Bockfontein, and b x 
Onrustrivier. 8, Rondebosch. y. Downs near Onrustrivier, Zeyh. n. 2248. Aug.— anbp Del) 
Nov. (Herb. Thunb., T.C.D., &c.) : 
Height 4-6 feet. Wood hard and tough. Branches terete, greyish. Petioles 3-6 
lines long, carinate, with small wings. Leaflets coriaceous, resinous, shining, com- 
monly without nerves and veins, rarely on the under surface somewhat ribbed, ob- 
with a blunt, short acumen, very unequal, in var. y. 1~1} inch 
i no more than an inch long 
tuse, retuse, rarel 
long. taede wide, ceabisiiad inches long, inch wide, 
and 6-8 lines wide. panicles or racemes shorter or of the length of 
Zz 86. RB. ylla (E. & Z.! n. 1130); glabrous or branches pube- 
-rulent ; leaves short-petiolate ; leaflets sessile, obovate-cuneate, emarginate, 
- -mucronulate, quite entire, with revolute margins, coriaceous, shining, 
- with raised veins on both sides; panicles axillary, longer than the leaves, 
glabrous or puberulous flowers dtcecious ; drupe globose, glabrous, 
ins near villa Grietj near Palmietrivier, 7. & Z.! Swellendam, 
Mundt Mott, Holl. Zey.t n igs «er Ea (Herb. Lehm., T.C.D., Sond.) 
Very similar to the preceding, differs by the more coriaceous ribbed leaflets, 
longer panicles, and very minute, dicecious flowers. Petioles 3-6 lines long, with 
ings. Leaflets 1 inch long, 6 lines wide, or 14-2 inches long, 9-12 lines 
wide, very obtuse or truncate-retuse, with a very short mucro; the lateral] ones | 
erect, smaller, unequal at base. Panicles 2 inches or longer, upper branches 7 
2~4 lines long, the lower ones longer; pedicels capillary. Fruit as in 2. lucida. ome 
- $7. RB. Africana (Mill. dict. n. 11.); branchlets thinly pubescent ; 
leaves short-petiolate ; leaflets sessile, ovate, sub-acute or emarginate, 
shortly mucronate, cuneate at base, coriaceous, with prominent veins, 
downy or glabrous, shining, with revolute margins, quite entire or with 
