;)0 XXXIV. OLACTNEiE. 



ously 3-5-eelled) ; 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 #f 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. Stamens 4-5 2. Apodytes. 



Corolla rotate (mouopetalous), bearing the stamens . , 3. Cassinopsis. 



1. XIMENIA, Linn. 



Calyx small, 4-5-toothed, unchanged in fruit. Petals 4-5, 

 hypogynous, valvate, narrow, bearded ^vithin. Stamens t^dce 

 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. — Fl. Cap. i. 

 p. 235 ; Thes. Cap. t. 126. 



X. Caffra, Sond., our only South African species, grows at Magalisberg 

 and Katal. 



2. APODYTES, E. Mey. 



Calyx small, 4-5-toothed, unchanged in fruit. Petals 4-5, 

 %pogynous, 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. — Fl. Cap. \. p. 235. 



Trees or shrubs. A. dimidiafa, E. 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 ca^dty. Drupe nearly dry, ovato- 

 globose. Seed inverted, compressed ; embryo minute, in the 

 apex of copious albumen. — Fl. 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. tinifolla, H., found in Zululand. 



