154 ARNOTT ON SOUTH AFRICAN PLANTS. 



what we see in the sterile flower. The following is an anr£- 

 lysis, as far as my specimens will admit : — 



BosciA, Thunh. {non Lam.) 

 Asaphes, DC Duncania, Reich. 



Flores diclines. Calyx brevis 4-partitus. Petala 4, caly- 

 cem mill to superantia, sestivatione contorto-convolutiva. — 

 Masc. Stamina 8, 4 petalis opposita breviora, circa basm 

 gynophori ovariorum rudimenta gerentis inserta. PistiUa 

 3 — 4j abortiva. Styli ioX.\Cie.m, filiformia ; stigmata puncti- 

 formia — Fcem. Stylus nullus. Stigma sessile, latum, pelta- 

 tum, in fructu concavum. Fructus carnosus, punctatus, 4- 

 (nunc 3-) sulcatus, 4-(nunc 3-) locularis; loculis monosper- 

 mis, 1 — 3 ssepe abortivis. Seminn ovoidea, angulata, dorso 

 convexa, unilocularia. Embryo subarcuatus. 



From this it will be seen that in no one point does Boscia 

 differ from Vepris, except in the structure of the seed, which in 

 Vepris is described as two-celled, with one of the cells empty ; 

 an anomalous structure, perhaps the effect of accident, and 

 which my specimens being only in flower, do not permit 

 me to verify. The structure of the first is precisely similar' 

 to what is detailed in Vepris, by M. Adrien de Jussieu; and 

 as the habit of the two genera is precisely alike, I feel dis- 

 posed to unite them ; indeed, admitting that the structure or 

 seed is not here of importance, I scarcely see how Boscia 

 Ufidulata, is to be distinguished from Vepris inermis, except 

 by the narrower foliage; and in the Mauritius plant that 

 seems also to vary considerably ; but whatever becomes of it 

 as a genus, it must be removed with Vepris and Toddalia to 

 the group of Zanthoxylece . 



10. I have now alluded to all the Cape Genera placed m 

 Terebinthacece, except two. The one is Laurophyllus : of tins 

 I have only seen the male flowers; and their examination in- 

 clines me to agree with Mr Harvey in referring it to the 

 Sumachinea. The most complete description of it is given 

 by Bernhardi in the Linna?a xii., page 135, who has there 



