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tree above described lias usually been known here as T. Dregeana, but the name 

 here given is the correct one. This tree is perhaps one of the handsomest of our 

 indigenous trees, and the one from which the specimens were obtained for our 

 description is a magnificent umbrageous tree not surpassed in beauty by any 

 known to us in the coast districts. In the description of the genus and species in 

 the Flora Capensis, or of the genus in the Genera Plantarum, no allusion is made 

 to any member of the genus bearing unisexual flowers, but in Wood's No. 5612 

 the ovary is always abortive, and though the tree has been under constant obser- 

 vation for many years past, it has never been known to bear a single seed. Some 

 other genera belonging to the same Order are polygamo-dioecious, and it would 

 seem that Trichilia, or some of its species must be included in the number, but 

 further information on this matter is required. The seeds yield an oil rather 

 plentifully which solidifies at our ordinary winter temperature, but liquefies during 

 the summer months ; specimens of this oil were sent by the writer to the Colonial 

 and Indian Exhibition. The Flora of Tropical Africa says of this tree, " The oil 

 and tallow obtained from the seeds Dr. Kirk says is valuable, and may be had 

 in quantity. The oil is used in cookerv." The native name of the tree is um- 

 Kuhla. 



Fig. 1, Twig with leaves and flowers, a little reduced ; 2, Section of flower; 3, 

 Stamin&l tube opened ; 4, Calyx, ovary, style and stigma ; 5, Stamen front and side 

 view ; 6, Section of ovary ; all enlarged. 



PLATE 81. 



ANASTRABE INTEGERRIMA, E.M. 

 Natural Order, SCROPHULARINE.S:. 



A shrub or small tree, 6-20 feet high. Branches spreading, old ones terete, 

 young ones compressed and tomentose. Leaves opposite or sub-opposite, coria- 

 ceous, dark green above, whitish beneath, generally broadly lanceolate, but some- 

 times ob-lanceolate to obovate ; entire, slightly tomentose beneath, especially on 

 veins; length including petiole, 1^-2^ inches. Inflorescence axillary, cymose. 

 Peduncles tomentose. Cymes 1-1 -J inches long, 6 to many flowered. Calyx broadly 

 campanulate, 5 fid, tomentose, coriaceous, lobes acute, 1^-2 lines long. Corolla 

 bi-labiate, tomentose, upper lip 2 fid, lobes broadly ovate, sub-acute, lower lip 

 larger, boat shaped, concave, 3 toothed at apex, more than twioe as long as calyx. 

 Stamens 4, didynamous, suD-ascending. Filaments flat. Anthers 2 celled, cells 

 confluent at apex, yellow with scarlet spot at apex of filament. Ovary tomentose, 

 2 celled. Style slightly curved. Stigma minute. Capsule oblong. 



Habitat: NATAL: Inanda, Jan, Wood No. 449; Government Herbarium No. 

 2801. Near Sydenham, Jan, Wood 7383. 



Drawn and described from specimens gathered near Palmiet, February, 1899. 



This is the isi-Pambati of the natives, and in the early days of the Colony, the 

 poles were much used for building the wattle and daub houses with which farmers 

 in those days had to be content. The wood is of little use for wagon or other 

 similar work, as it is liable to warp and split, nor does it usually grow to a large 

 size. 



Fig. 1, Branch with leaves and flowers, about natural size ; 2, Flower; 3, 



