252 AUNOTT ON SOUTH AFIIICAN PLANTS. 



hreve pedicellati, axillares ; masc. plures fasciculdti ; faem. 

 sitbsolitarii . 



That this genus can have no relation to the RhamnecR 

 must be at once apparent. In several respects it approaches 

 to Euphorhiacece, and particularly to Geloniwn, but if the 

 ovarium be truly unilocular, and perhaps the furrow which 

 is observable along the inner side of each of the styles is 

 confirmatory of that structure, such an affinity must be 

 abandoned. On the other hand, the very deeply introflexed 

 margins of the ovary, and the reduced number of ovules re- 

 move it from Bixinece ; while from Flacourtianecc it differs by 

 the same points, and also by having simple placentas along 

 the introflexed margin of the ovarium, and more than one 

 style. My own opinions lean to its being most connected 

 with EuphorbiaccfE, but the habit is most that of a Flacourtia. 



11. OUnia cymosa, and n. 3468, which is O. capensis of 

 Klotzsch, form a group nearly allied to the Memecyleae and 

 Myrtacese, and are far removed from Rhamnea?. 



12. Helinus ovatus, E. M. (^IVillemetia scandens, E. and Z., 

 and Rhamvus tnystacinus, Ait.) is admitted as a genus by 

 Endlicher; but with the exception of the fruit being destitute 

 of wings, I do not see how either in habit or structure of the 

 flower, it differs from lieissekia, a genus retained by Brong- 

 niart as a mere section of Gouania, and founded on Gouania 

 smilacina, Sm., {Ce/astrus umbellatus, Flor, Fltim. II. t. 137, 

 and G. cordifolia, Raddi.) 



13. No. 9123 is a species of Rhamnus, and probably ^• 

 prinoides, L'Her. The R. celtifolius, Thunb., which is 

 usually placed next this in our systematical works, is, as far 

 as relates to Burm. Afr, t. 88, a species of Celtis, and apparent- 

 ly the same as that distributed by Drege under No. 8261. b. 



14. The remaining genus of RhamnecB is the Linnean 

 Phylica, but from this must be excluded Ph. abietiiia, E. M. 

 which is a species of Spathalla, one of the Proteaceae, and 

 Ph. mifcronata, E. M., which is a species of Stilbe. 



Phylica, Lin,, was divided by Brongniart into three genera; 

 Trichocephahs (IVa/persia, Reiss.) with setaceous small 



