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almost none; stigmas 3. This is a true Catha oi^ End- 

 licher, and has the habit of the East Indian and Senigambian 

 species. — 8. C pyracantha is correctly named, and now forms 

 the genus Putterlickia. — 9. No. 6736 b, and 6737 b, appear 

 to belono- to Mystroxylon, E. and Z. ; petals orbicular, and 

 stamens five; ovary half immersed in the fleshy 5-angled disk, 

 2-celled, 4-ovuled; ovules in pairs, erect; style one, short, 

 thick ; stigmas entire, truncated. 



16. Cassine Capetisis, L. : this has an evident cylindiical 

 style, stigmas 2-3 patulous; ovary seated on a 5-lobed crenu- 

 lateil fleshy disk, 2-3-celled, with two erect ovules in each celh 

 now Endlicher not only places this in Illcinecs, but describes 

 the ovules as solitary in each cell, and pendulous from its 

 apex ; unfortunately he does not say what species he examined, 

 but the above is the structure of C. Capensis; for the speci- 

 mens are accurately determined. 1 have seen neither fruit 

 nor seed, so 1 cannot ascertain the nature of the embryo; 

 hut if it be, as I expect, similar to that of Elceodendron, then 

 Cassine Capensis will be very nearly allied to that genus, and 

 to Hartagia, if indeed it ought not to be united to the latter. 

 Gaertner's analysis of the fruit and seed, relates only to C. 

 mauracenia, of which I have not yet seen even the flowers. 



17. Hartagia. — 1. H. Capensis; here the disk is fleshy, 4 — 5 

 lobed, the lobes ustulate on the margin; ovary seated on the 

 disk, 2-celled; ovules two in each cell, erect. Now Endlicher, 

 {Gen. p. 1088) says the ovules are solitary, wjiile I find them 

 in pairs in each cell; but I quite agree with him in removing 



the genus from Ilicinece, near to Ehsodendron 2. No. 



6740 ; of this I have no flower, and the fruit is immature, but 

 obviously a drupe; there are however four persistent calyx- 

 segments ; the venation of the leaves is very unlike that of 

 //. Capensis, and agrees better with what occurs in the fol- 

 lowing — 3. //. Thea, E. M. Here I have neither flower nor 

 fruit, but if, as I suspect from the specific name, this be the 

 Bosjesman's thea of the natives, it is the Methyscophyllum 

 glaucum of E. and Z. {En. p. 152), already referred to; that 

 it belongs however to Celastrinecc, and not to Terehinthacea, 



