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both ends, acute, bluntly sawed towards the apex, smooth above, 

 ribbed and woolly beneath. Flowers panicled, small ; panicles 

 terminal, longer than the leaves. Drupe shaggy. 



Growth, height, properties, and technical u?es like those of the pre- 

 ceding species. 



40. Blms Tliunhergii. Hook. (Roemeria argentea. Thhg.) 

 (Rock- Ash; Klipesse,) — Branches erect, wi'inkled. Leaves 

 simple, stalked, alternate, obovate-elhptic, retuse, entire, leathery, 

 penninerved, glaucous. Flowers panicled, polygamous, white ; 

 panicles terminal ; pedicels, sepals and petals externall}'- shaggy. 

 Stamens 5-10; petals 5-6. Drupe roundish-oblique, almost 

 dry, 1 celled, 1 seeded. Hook. Icon. Plant, t. 595. 



Height 12 to 15 feet; diameter 3 to 4 feet Bark rongh, craggy. 

 Wood resinous, fine grained, hard, close, heavy. Handsome when 

 polished. Valuable in the manufacture of fancy furniture, work boxes, 

 sewing tables, &c., and useful to the turner and maker of musical 

 instruments. 



This tree grows in reeky situations in the districts of Stellenbosch, 

 Worcester, and Clanwilliam. Fl. February. 



41. Harpephyllum Caff rum. Dernh. — Branches spreading; 

 twigs knotty from the fall of old leaves. Xe^ares alternate, impaii- 

 pinnate, 6-7 yoked, long-stalked, smooth ; leaflets sessile, patent, 

 lanceolate, entire, unequal-sided, sickle-shaped, pointed, veiny, 

 wedge-shaped at base. Flowers dioico-polygamous, short-stalked, 

 panicled, white ; jm7iicles terminal, shorter than the leaves. Calyx 

 4-5 cleft, its segments blunt ; petals 4-5, longer than the calyx. 

 Stamens 8-10 free, perigynous ; filaments short, awl-shaped ; 

 anthers ovate. Pistil columnar, fleshy; stigmas 4 recurved. 

 Drupe oblong, 2 celled, 1 seeded by abortion, about an inch long. 



A handsome tree 20-30 feet high, and from 1 to 2 in diameter, much 

 resembling the Cape Ash in habit. i?r/rA' greyish-brown, rough. Wood 

 red, tough, very handsome when polished, and useful for household 

 furniture, planking, and various other purposes. The fruit, knoAvn as 

 the Kojir or Wild Plum (zuurf^-pruim ) , is edible. 



Grows in woody ravines at Howison's Port (Albany), in the forests 

 of the Uitenhage district, and in Catfraria. As an ornamental tree I 

 found it planted at the sides of some of the principal streets in Gra- 

 ham's Town along with Erythrina caffra. Fl. April. 



LEGUMINOS.^. Juss. 



42. Millettia Caffra. Meisn. ( Omzamheete) Kajir Ironwood.) 

 — Upper branches and leaf-stalks downy ; leaves unequally-pinnate, 

 4-6 yoked ; leaflets short-petioled, opposite, oblong, penninerved. 



