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cabinetmakers and wheelwrights It is also useful to turners, and well 

 adapted for screws. As this wood sutlers but little from moisture, it 

 may be of service in the construction of mills. 



Common in moist, woody places throughout the whole colony. 

 FI. May — June. 



49. Platylophus Trifoliatus. Don. (White Alder-, Wit- 

 Els.) — Branches and twigs purplish. Leaves trifoliate, stalked ; 

 leaflets lanceolate, acute, toothed, netted-veined, smooth. Stipules 

 deciduous. Flowers panicled, small, white; 2^anicels axillary, 

 compound, many-flowered; peduncels shaggy. Calyx 4 cleft, 

 persistent ; petals 4, trifid ; stamens 8-10. Styles 2. Capsule 

 cartilaginous, ovate, •2-celled. 



Height from 30 to 40 feet ; diameter from 3 to 4 Bark whitish grey, 

 rather smooth. Wood white, much lighter than that of the preceding 

 species, from which it also differs in colour. It furnishes a good material 

 for common furniture, drawers, boxes, picture-frames, &c., looks well 

 when polished, and is also used for various wagon work. 



This stately tree is to be met with in the forests of the Swellendam, 

 Worcester, George, and Uitenhage districts. Fl. January. 



HAMAMELIDE^. R. Br. 



50. Trichocladus Crinitus. Pers. (Underwood. Onderhosch.) 

 — Branches smooth, greyish-white, spreading. Leaves opposite, 

 stalked, ovate or oval, bluntly acuminate, veiny, entire, glossy 

 above. Twigs, petioles, calyces and underside of leaves densely 

 coated with brown shag, Flowers dioecious, terminal, and 

 axillary, clustered together upon a common receptacle ; Flower- 

 heads stalked ; calyx 5-lobed; petals 5-epigynous, linear, involute ; 

 stamens 5 ; styles 2. Capsule hairy, 2-celled, 5-valved ; ceils 

 one-seeded. 



An arborescent shrub, 10-15 feet high, and from 6-8 inches broad. 

 J3arA smooth ; wood hard, fit for wagon -work, etc. The branches and 

 twigs are used on account of their toughness and elasticity ; they bend 

 well without breaking, and serve as hoops for the manufacture of 

 buckets, etc. This shrub is called Siduli by the Kafirs. Trichocladus 

 elHpticus. E. & Z does not appear to difftr, but by narrower, more 

 elliptical leaves. 



Common in the forests of the Knysna and Plettenberg's Bay, Tzitsi- 

 kamma, Krakakamma, Stockenstrom, Caffraria &c. Flor, Dec— Jan. 



OLINIE^. W. Arnott. 



51. Olinia Capensis. Klotzsch. {Hardpear.) — Branches 

 and twigs angular, spreading. Leaves opposite, oval, leathery, 

 entire, somewhat wavy, tapering into a petiole, emarginate, slighty 

 pointed, pennineryed, glossy above, pale below. Calyx 5-toothed. 



