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1. CUSSONIA, Th. 
Calyx-margin 5-7-toothed or entire. Petals 5-7. Stamens 
as many as the petals, alternate with them. Ovary top-shaped, 
crowned by a broad disk; styles 2-3, short, erect, distinct, 
near together. Fruit 2-3-celled, roundish, somewhat fleshy. 
— Fl. Cap. ii. p. 568. 
Shrubs or small trees, with thick, somewhat fleshy stems. Leaves on 
long petioles, glabrous, glossy, sometimes glaucous, palmate or digitate, with 
5-9 1-nerved, entire or lobed leaflets. Flowers in spikes, panicles, racemes 
or umbels.—6 species, dispersed. 
2. PANAX, Linn. 
Flowers polygamous. Calyx-margin obsoletely 5-toothed. 
Petals 5. Stamens 5. Ovary inferior, 2-celled ; styles 2, di- 
vergent; stigmas simple. Berry laterally compressed, oblong 
or orbicular (or didymous, rarely terete-obconic), 2-celled ; 
cells 1-seeded. 
A large and widely-distributed genus of trees, shrubs or herbs, various in 
habit.—P. Gerrardi, Harv. MSS., lately found by Mr. Gerrard (No. 1264) 
at Ingoma, Natal, is a low tree, glabrous in all parts, with simple, palmately 
3-5-lobed leaves, the lobes acuminate, glandularly serrulate ; peduncles axil- 
lary, bearing a terminal, simple, many-rayed umbel, and several lateral similar 
umbels, which seem to be frequently abortive; fruit oblong, much compressed. 
Orper LXV. CORNES. 
Flowers small, regular. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary ; 
limb 4-toothed. Petals 4, epigynous, with valvate estivation. 
Stamens 4, alternate with the petals, inserted round the 
margin of a fleshy disk. Ovary inferior, 2-4-celled; ovules 
solitary, pendulous, anatropal; style single. Fruit fleshy, 
with a bony 2-4-celled nucleus. Embryo in the axis of 
fleshy albumen.—Trees or shrubs, with opposite, exstipulate, 
penninerved leaves. Flowers in heads, umbels, cymes or 
panicles. 
1. CURTISTIA, Ait. 
Calyx-tube top-shaped, 4-angled ; limb 4-parted. Petals 4, 
ovate, valvate. Stamens 4; filaments subulate; anthers ver- 
satile, short, didymous. Ovary 4-celled (occasionally 3-celled), 
crowned with a hairy disk; style single; stigmas 3-4. Fruit 
thinly-fleshy, with a bony, 4-celled (or 2-3-celled) nut. Seeds 
1 in each cell, pendulous.— 7. Cap. ii. p. 570; Thes. Cap. t. 
124. 
C. faginea, Ait. (Hassagay wood), is a fine tree, found in forests through- 
out the colony. Leaves oblong-ovate, acute, rigid, coarsely-toothed, penni- 
