CELASTRINE.E. XV. CASSINE. XVI. HARTOGIA. XVII. CURTISIA. XVIII. NEMOPAKTHES. 



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ing with the petals. Ovary 1 . Style wanting. Stigmas 3-5. 

 Drupe almost dry, containing a thin 3-5-celled, 3-5-seeded nut. 

 Seeds hanging from the top of the cells. Cape and Asiatic 

 shrubs, with tetragonal branches, opposite, smooth, coriaceous 

 leaves, and axillary peduncles, hearing small flowers. 



1 C. MAUROCE'NIA (Lin. spec. 385.) leaves sessile, ohovate, 

 quite entire, convex ; pedicels many, very short. Tj . G. Native 

 of ./Ethiopia. Maurocenia frangularia, Mill. diet. no. 1. 

 Dill. elth. t. 121. f. 147. Flowers at first greenish-yellow, but 

 changing at length to white. Fruit dark-purple when ripe. 

 The specific name is in honour of the Venetian senator Franc 

 Morosini, who had a fine garden at Padua, a catalogue of which 

 was published by Ant. Tita. 



Morosini' s Hottentot-cherry. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1690. 

 Shrub 6 feet. 



2 C. CAPE'NSIS (Lin. mant. 220.) leaves stalked, ovate, retuse, 

 crenate, flat ; panicles axillary, shorter than the leaves. Tj . G. 

 Native of the Cape of Good Hope, in woods. Burm. afr. t. 85. 

 Dill. elth. t. 236. Flowers small, white. 



Cape Phillyrea. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1629. Shrub 6 feet. 



3 C. EXCE'LSA (Wall, in fl. ind. 2. p. 376.) leaves alternate, 

 oval, acuminate, quite entire, with an acute base, rather fleshy, 

 shining above ; umbels axillary and lateral, many-flowered, 

 rounded ; stigmas 5 ; berry 5-celled, 5-seeded. Tj . G. Native 

 of Nipaul, in all the forests of the valley and the surrounding 

 mountains. Flowers white ? Berry about the size of a currant, 

 pulpy, yellow. Notwithstanding the rotate corolla, and the 

 increased number of stigmas and seeds, as well as the alternate 

 leaves, Dr. Wallich had no hesitation in referring this tree to 

 Cassine. 



Tall Cassine. Fl. May, June. Clt. 1820. Tree 40 feet. 



4 C. riscoLOR (Wall, in fl. ind. 2. p. 278.) leaves ovate, acu- 

 minate, tapering much to the base, whitish beneath, quite entire, 

 coriaceous ; fascicles of flowers axillary, dichotomous ; stigmas 4. 

 Tj . G. Native of the East Indies, on the mountains border- 

 ing on Silhet. Flowers yellowish, monopetalous. 



Tn>o-coloured-\eaved Cassine. Fl. Jan. Tree 20 feet. 



5 C. COLPOON (Thunb. fl. cap. 2. p. 227.) leaves stalked, 

 ovate, crenate, but usually quite entire ; panicle axillary, length 

 of leaves. Tj . G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Euony- 

 mus Colpoon, Lin. mant. 200. Burm. afr. t. 86. Flowers white, 

 (quadrifid ?) 



Colpoon-tree. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1791. Shrub 6 feet. 



f Doubtful species. 



6 C. -SvrmoncA (Thunb. fl. cap. 2. p. 227.) leaves stalked, 

 oblong, deeply crenate ; panicles axillary. Tj . G. Native of 

 the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers white. This is probably a 

 variety of C. Capensis. 



/Ethiopian Cassine. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. ? Shrub 5 feet. 



7 C. BA'RBARA (Lin. spec. 385.) leaves sessile, cordate-ob- 

 long, serrate-toothed ; panicles axillary, shorter than the leaves. 

 1? . G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Thunb. fl. cap. 

 2. p. 226. Peduncles usually 3-flowered. Flowers small, 

 white. 



Barbarous Cassine. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1816. Shrub 6 ft. 



8 C. OPPOSITIFOLIA (Mill. diet. no. 3.) leaves stalked, ovate, 

 acute ; flowers axillary, scattered. Tj . G. Native of? For- 

 merly cultivated in the gardens of England under the name of 

 hyson tea. Flowers greenish-white ? 



Opposite-leaved Cassine. Shrub. 



Cult. Shrubs with large thick leaves, and small white 

 flowers. They will grow freely in a mixture of loam and peat ; 

 and ripened cuttings will readily strike root, if planted in a pot 

 of sand with a hand-glass placed over them. 



XVI. HARTO'GIA (in honour of J. Hartog, a Dutch natu- 

 ralist and traveller at the Cape of Good Hope). Thunb. nov. 

 gen. 5. p. 35. with afigure, but not of Lin. D. C.prod. 2. p. 12. 



LIN. SYST. Tetra-Pentdndria. Calyx 4-5-cleft. Petals 4-5, 

 spreading. Stamens 4-5, alternating with the petals. Ovary 1. 

 Style thick, bifid, with bifid lobes. Drupe dry, ovate, 2-celled, 

 2-seeded. Habit of Myginda, from which it is hardly distinct. 



1 H. CAPE'NSIS (Lin. fil. suppl. 128.) J; . G. Native of the 

 Cape of Good Hope. Leaves opposite, oblong, crenated, smooth, 

 hardly stalked. Pedicels few-flowered, axillary, drooping. 

 Schrebera schinoides, Thunb. prod. t. 2. Elaeodendron schinoi- 

 des, Spreng. syst. 1. p. 780. 



Cape Hartogia. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1800. Shrub 10 feet. 



Cult. See Cassine for culture and propagation. 



XVII. CURTI'SIA (in honour of the late William Curtis, a 

 celebrated English botanist, who commenced the Botanical 

 Magazine). Ait. hort. kew. 1. p. 162. but not of Schreb. D. C. 

 prod. 2. p. 12. Doratium, Sol. in Jaum. exp. 2. p. 267. 

 Relhania and Junghauia, Gmel. syst. 247. and 259. 



LIN. SYST. Tetrdndria, Monogynia. Calyx 4-parted. Petals 

 4, blunt, longer than the calyx. Stamens 4, alternating with the 

 petals. Ovary and style 1. Stigmas 4-5. Drupe subglobose, 

 succulent, containing a 4-5-celled, 4-5-seeded nucleus. A fine 

 tree, with opposite, broad, shining, toothed, smooth leaves, which 

 are rusty beneath, and racemose panicles of small flowers. See 

 Rich. diet, class, hist. nat. t. 5. p. -03. 



1 C. FAGI'NEA (Ait. hort. kew. 1. c. Lam. ill. t. 71.) Pj . G. 

 Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Burm. afr. t. 82. The 

 Hottentots and Caffres make the shafts of their javelins or 

 assagays from the wood of this tree. They always carry one or 

 two of these with them on their journeys. They consist of an 

 iron spear, hollowed out on each side, about six inches long, 

 with or without an iron shaft, which is sometimes round and 

 smooth, and sometimes grooved. It is fastened with thongs of 

 leather to a slender, round stick, 5 feet long, tapering towards 

 the end, and made of the wood of this tree. With these lances, 

 which they throw with great dexterity to the distance of a hun- 

 dred paces, the Hottentots and Caffres defend themselves, and 

 kill buffaloes and other wild animals. The tree is called in 

 Dutch Assagay-hout, Wile-else, and Stinh-hout. In English 

 Hassagay, or Assagay-tree, from its use among the natives at 

 the Cape. 



Beech-like Hassagay-tree. Clt. 1775. Tree 60 feet. 



Cult. See Cassine for culture and propagation. 



XVIII. NEMOPA'NTHES (from V^OQ, nemos, a grove, and 

 avQos, anthos, a flower ; habitat). Rafin. journ. phys. 1819. p. 

 96. and in Sillim. amer. journ. 1. p. 377. D. C. prod. 2. p. 17. 

 Ilicioides, Dum. Cours. ed. 1. vol. 4. p. 27. 



LIN. SYST. Polygdmia, Dice da. Flowers dioecious or poly- 

 gamous from abortion. Calyx small, scarcely conspicuous. 

 Petals 5, distinct, oblong-linear, deciduous. Stamens 5, alter- 

 nating with the petals. Ovary hemispherical, covered with 

 clammy juice. Style wanting. Stigmas 3-4, sessile, in the 

 male flowers they are hardly manifest. Berry somewhat glo- 

 bose, 3-4-celled, 3-4-seeded. A small deciduous shrub. 



1 N. CANADE'NSIS (D. C. mem. soc. gen. 1. p. 44. pi. rar. 

 hort. gen. t. 3.) J? . H. Native of North America, from Canada 

 to Carolina, on high mountains, near edges of ponds. Flex 

 Canadensis, Michx. fl. bor. amer. 2. p. 299. t. 49. N. faseicu- 

 laris, Rafin. 1. c. Tlex delicatula, Bart. fl. virg. p. 67. ? Prinos 

 lucidus, Ait. hort. kew. 2. p. 478. Leaves ovate, quite entire, 

 or serrated at the apex, smooth. Pedicels usually solitary, 1- 

 flowered, very long. Flowers white. Berries large, beautiful 

 crimson, very ornamental. 



