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Flowers terminal, cymose; bracts deciduous; petals white, 

 spathulate ; stamens 5 ; filaments short, inflexed ; stigma thick, 

 blunt. Drupe oblong, dry, 3-4 celled; cells one-seeded by 

 abortion. 



Height of stem 25-30 feet ; diameter from 2 to 3. Bark greyish-white, 

 very rugged. Wood yellowish-white, hard, tough and heavy, like the 

 European white Birch It is chiefly used by wheelwrights fur axles, poles 

 and sundry wagon-work, but may be tried as well for railway purposes. 



Konha-wood, which greatly resembles Hardpear, but of which I have 

 been unable to procure branches and leaves for identification, appears 

 to belong to another species of Olinia, the wood itself being of finer 

 grain. 



Common in the forests and woods throughout a great portion of the 

 Colony. Fl. Jul— Aug. 



52. Olinia Cymosa. Thhg. — Branches 4-angular, very 

 straight. Leaves stalked, opposite, obovate, emarginate, or blunt 

 with a point, coriaceous, entire, penninerved, smooth. Petioles 

 short, depressed. Florvers white, cymose, axillary. 



Shrubby. Height of stem 4 to 6 feet ; diameter 6-8 inches. Bark 

 whitish-grey, cracked. Wood hard, close-grained, heavy, well adapted 

 for turner's work. 



Delights in rocky spots, and is common on the east side of Table 

 Mountain, and in similar localities of the Western division of the Colony. 

 Fl. July— August. 



MYRTACE^. Juss. 



53. Eugenia Zeyheri, Harv. ( Wild Ja^nhos.) — Branches 

 rough. Leaves opposite, elliptic-lanceolate, short-stalked, entire, 

 glabrous, slightly revolute. Flowers stalked, axillary, small. 

 Calyx 4-cleft ; petals 4; stamens numerous; style 1. Berry 

 subglobose, crowned with the withered calyx. 



Height from 15 to 20 feet ; breadth from 9 to 12 inches. Bark thin, 

 grey, longitudinally rent. Wood white, hard, heavy, fine-grained, some- 

 what resembling white Maple. Fit for the manufacture of carpenter's 

 tools, ploughs, axles, &c. Fruit edible. 



In the forests of the Van Stadensbergen, and near Uitenhage. Fl. 

 December. 



C0RNE.-3E. D.C. 



54. Curtisia Faginea. Ait. {Assagay-wood; Assagay-hout.) 

 — J5ra7zc^es decussate, erect ; ^w^^5 purplish, tomentose. Leaves 

 opposite, stalked, oblong, acuminate, unequally toothed, glabrous, 

 veined. Petioles and veins clothed with a dense rusty shag. 

 Flowers small, numerous, red, paniculate. Panicles trichotomous, 

 shaggy, terminal. Calyx 4 parted ; petals 4 ; stamens 4 ; style 



