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the others ; but there is scarcely any difference in that 

 respect ; they are those which alternate with the petals, such 

 being exactly the reverse of what has been described by 

 Klotzsch. Those opposite to the petals are slightly attached 

 to their base, while the alternating ones serve to connect the 

 bases of the petals in the state of estivation ; a cohesion, 

 however, which is very slight, and soon destroyed by the 

 expansion of the flower. 



29. Of the "incerti sedis," of Drege's catalogue of Febru- 

 ary, 1838, I do not possess his Laurophyllus capensis ; the 

 true plant approaches most to Terehinthacea;, while in Drege's 

 catalogue for 1840, his plant is placed at the end of Lauri- 

 neoe, along with No. 2311, which however \s Trichocladus 

 crinituSf Presl, one of the HamamelidecB. Mr Harvey's charac- 

 ter of this genus is so different from that given by Endlicher 

 in his genera, that some explanation is necessary. Mr Har- 

 vey seems to have examined only the male flowers with a 

 sterile ovary; while Endlicher, and I have corroborated his 

 analysis, examined the female or rather a bisexual flower. 

 Moreover, the plant analyzed by Mr Harvey is probably a 

 different species from that of Endlicher ; Mr Harvey's has 

 leaves slightly cordate at the base, acute, and very hairy un- 

 derneath ; tliis is No. 625 of Zeyher's collections from the 

 forests of Adow and Krakakamma in the district of Uiten- 

 hage, and appears to be T, cri?iitus, E. and Z., but not I 

 think of Thunberg. Thunberg describes and figures his 

 plant with acuminated leaves, which are also acute at the 

 base, and pale underneath; this is No. 2311, b. of Drege 

 above referred to, and I have the same collected between 

 Cape and Grahamstown; this I believe to be T. ellipiicuSt 

 E. and Z. lu this last, even the male flowers have the calyx 

 only 5-lobed, and by no means cleft to near the base, — a struc- 

 ture alluded to perhaps by Ecklon and Zeyher in the fol- 

 lowing" words, " Calyx cupuliformis, exacte 5-dentatus." 



30. No. 8262 of Drege, is Po/poda capensis, Presl, or 

 Blepharolepis Zeyheriana, Nees ab Esenb. in Lindley's Int. 



