50 XXXIV. OLACINER. 
ously 3-5-celled) ; ovules 2-4, rarely 1, pendulous from the 
summit of a thread-like, free, central placenta, or attached to 
the sides of the ovary, or of the false septa; style simple. 
Fruit in the unaltered or enlarged calyx, 1-celled, 1-seeded. 
Seed with much albumen. 
Petals 4-5, hairy within. Stamens 8-10... . . 1. XIMENIA. 
Petals 4-5, glabrous. Stamens4-5 . . . . . . . 2. APODYTES. 
Corolla rotate (monopetalous), bearing the stamens . . 3. CASSINOPSIS. 
1. XIMENTA, Linn. 
Calyx small, 4—5-toothed, unchanged in fruit. Petals 4-5, 
hypogynous, valvate, narrow, bearded within. Stamens twice 
as many; anthers linear, erect, opening by opposite slits. 
Ovary 3-celled at base; style simple; ovules 3, linear, pen- 
dulous from a central placenta, which is free at summit, or at- 
tached to the wall of the cavity. Drupe fleshy.—/J. Cap. i. 
p. 235 ; Thes. Cap. t. 126. 
X. Caffra, Sond., our only South African species, grows at Magalisberg 
and Natal. 
2. APODYTES, E. Mey. 
Calyx small, 4—5-toothed, unchanged in fruit. Petals 4-5, 
hypogynous, free, valvate, glabrous. Stamens 4-5, alternate 
with the petals and slightly attached to them at base ; fila- 
ments thickish; anthers oblong or linear, dorsally affixed. 
Ovary 1-celled, often thickened on one side at the apex; style 
oblique or excentric ; ovules 2, superposed, pendulous from 
an adherent placenta. Drupe fleshy, oblique, compressed, 
with a protuberance on one side.— J. Cap. i. p. 235. 
Trees or shrubs. A. dimidiata, EH. M., the only Cape species, occurs 
chiefly in the Eastern district, Caffraria, and Natal. It turns blackish in 
drying. Leaves ovate-oblong, glossy above, very entire. Flowers minute, 
in terminal, much-branched panicles. 
3. CASSINOPSIS, Sond. 
Calyx 5-fid. Corolla rotate, 5-fid, the segments oblong, 
slightly imbricate in bud. Stamens 5, inserted at the base or 
in the throat of the corolla, alternating with its lobes ; fila- 
ments subulate; anthers oblong-cordate, 2-celled. Disk 0. 
Ovary sessile, 1-celled, 2—1-ovuled ; ovules superposed, pendu- 
lous from the apex of the cavity. Drupe nearly dry, ovato- 
globose. Seed inverted, compressed ; embryo minute, in the 
apex of copious albumen.— FV. Cap. i. p. 473 ; Thes. Cap. t. 168. 
Shrubs or small trees, with opposite, entire or toothed, petioled leaves, 
and axillary cymes of minute flowers.—2 South African species: C. 
Capensis, Sond., found throughout the Eastern district and in Caffraria ; 
C. tinifolia, H., found in Zululand. 
