Dr Graham's List of Bare Plants, 383 



Hauno approached the shores of Negroland, the counti^ which, 

 during the day, presented only silent woods without the least 

 trace of man, at night was lighted up with immense fires, while 

 the woods resounded with the sounds of festivity. In a cli- 

 mate where, during the day, vegetation appears burnt up, the 

 earth is cracked by the heat, and all living creatures languish ; 

 but where at night breezes refresh the air, and cheer exhausted 

 nature, plants run with dew, and animals leave their haunts, 

 man also, fitted by the structure of his skin to throw off heat, 

 issues forth animated by the irresistible propensity to exercise 

 which is always given by the bracing air of colder climates. 



Description of several New or Bare Plants which have lately 

 Flowered in the Neighbourhood of Edinburgh, and chiefly in 

 the Boy at Botanic Garden. By Dr Graham, Professor of 

 Botany. 



lOtA Septemher 1840. 



Elseodendron Capense. 



E. Capense ; erectum, glabrum ; ramis scabro-punctatis ; foliis subop- 

 positis, petiolatis, latis, inapquiluteris, coriaceis, obtusiusculis, mar- 

 gine subrevolutis, utrinque reticulato-venosis, ovato-oblons^s, acu- 

 minatis, bicrenato-serratis, v. ovalibus et ellipticis repando-serratis, 

 serraturis inflexo-subaculeatis, paniculis axillaribus, simplicibus, 

 dicbotomis. Ecklon ^" Zeyher. 

 Eljeodendron Capense, Ecklon ^ Zeyher, Enumeratio PI. Afric. Aust. 

 127. 

 Description. — A tree in the specimen described, 18 feet high, and 

 growing freely, its trunk 4 inches in circumference near the base, and 

 almost cylindrical for a considerable height, perfectly straight, its bark 

 pale brown and warted, the branches spreading and pendulous. Leaves 

 (2^ inches long, 1 ^ broad) pctiolate, subopposite, lanceolato-elliptical, 

 the sides somewhat unequal, coriaceous, distantly spinuloso serrulate, 

 slightly revolute in the edges, dark green above, paler below, and often 

 becoming rusty ; petiole about ^ of the length of the leaf, channelled 

 above. Corymbs axillary, dichotomous, a single flower standing in 

 the fork, and the branches supporting three flowers each ; peduncle com- 

 pressed. Bracts lanceolate, opposite, resembling greatly diminished 

 leaves. Flmvcrs minute, green. (Jali^x 4-partite, green, flat, seg- 

 ments oblong. Corolla 4-parted, twice as long ay, and more delicate 

 than, the calyx, but in all other respects similar to, and alternating 

 with it. Stamens 4, opposite to the segments of the calyx, at first 

 erect, shorter than the corolla, afterwards reflected between its s^- 

 ments, as well as the corolla and calyx persisting; fllameuts greea : 

 aiUhers oblong, yellow, bilobular, bursting along the face. Germtn 

 imbedded in a flat, green, fleshy disk, stylo single, shorter than the 

 stamens, erect, stigma inconspicuous. Fruit yeilow, oval, about the 

 sisc of a filbert, fleshy, and containing a hard nni whh. l-Z cells. 



