520 TEREBINTACEZ (Sond.) [ Rhus. 
but smaller. Petioles 4-6 lines long, carinate, subulate. Panicle uncial, with pa- 
tent branches. Flowers very minute. 
44. RB. rigida (Mill. dict. n. 14); quite glabrous; branches sulcate ; 
leaves petiolate; leaflets sessile, cwneate-lanceolate, or linear-lanceolate, 
shortly acuminate, stiff, entire, or with 1-2 short, acute teeth at the 
apex, coriaceous, uninerved, concoloured on both surfaces; racemes — 
axillary or sub-terminal, simple or panicled, glabrous, twice or three 
times shorter than the leaves ; drupe ovate, glabrous, beaked with the per- 
sistent styles. DC.l.c.p. 71. &. rimosa, HE. & Z.! n. 1134. RB. trr- 
ceps, H. Meyer. 
Var. #2. florida; racemes panicled, as long as the leaves or longer. 
Has, Mountains near Heerelogement, 2. & Z./ Vierentwintigriviers, Zeyher. 
Olifantsrivier, Drege/ 1967. Var. 8. Giftberg, Drege! 6797. Nov.-Dec. (Herb. 
Lehm., Hook., Sond.) 
An erect, rigid shrub, branches grayish, branchlets purple, resinous. Leaflets 
somewhat glaucous, acute, mostly recurved, apiculate, 14-2 inches long, 3-4 lines 
wide, the lateral ones similar, but smaller. Petioles small-winged, 4-6 lines long. 
Racemes 6-8 lines long, few-fiowered, rarely branched at base. Flowers minute. — 
Drupe about 3 lines long. Panicles in var. 8. 14-2 inches long. Flowers as in var. 
a. Fruits are wanting. : 
D. Young branches, ‘Teaves and panicles covered with red glands. (Sp. 45-46.) 
45. BR. horrida (E. & Z.! n. 1135); the patent, spinescent branches 
and petioles, leaves, and flowers covered with minute, red glands; — 
leaves petiolate, fasciculate, palmately 3-foliolate, petioles dilatate, leaf- 
lets sessile, linear-cuneate, obtuse, quite entire, thickish, sub-glaucous ; 
racemes axillary, 3-6—flowered, shorter than the leaves; drupe oblique, 
oval, sub-compressed, glabrous. 2. platypoda, E. Meyer. 
Has. Mountains ; Kamiesberge and in Namaqualand, &. ¢ Z./ Drege! Sandy 
places, Kamos and at.Springbokkeel, Bushmanland, Zey./ n. 348. Flor. Nov.—Dec. 
Fruct. Mar. (Herb. Lehm., Sond.) Fi ee 
Shrub much branched, branches and branchlets terete, rigid, spinous. Petioles 
2~4 lines long, broader at top ; younger leaves red coloured, old ones sub-glabrous ; 
leaflets 3-4 lines long, obtuse, rarely emarginate at top, 1 line broad. Peduncles 
racemose, shorter than the petiole, as well as the calyx, ferruginous. Petals white, 
} line long. Drupe transversely broader, 1} line long, 2 lines broad, beaked with 
the very short styles. : 
46. R. longispina (E. & Z.! n. 116); branches spinescent ; spines — 
horizontal, bearing leaves and eet leaves sively fasciculate, pal- 
_ mately 3-foliolate, petiolate; petioles broadly-winged ; younger leaflets 
_ as well as the panicles covered with minute, red glands, the older ones 
_ glabrous or punctate beneath, shining above, veined on both surfaces, 
cuneate-obovate, obtuse or sub-emarginate, entire, the lateral ones oblong, 
equal at base; racemes panicled, solitary or fasciculate, as long as the 
or shorter; drupe oblique, globose, mucronate, sub-compressed, 
R. pterota, Presl.l.c. pet. 
rivier and near Ado, Fort Beaufort near Katrivier, E. & Z.! Zey.! 
4ey.! w. 2245. Swellendam, Mundi.! July. (Herb, Lehm., 
