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terminal, many-flowered. Calyx 5 cleft; lobes blunt. Fi/amnit^ 

 5, short; anthers inclosed; style 1. Corolla salver-slraped ; tube 

 hairy within, narrowed at the tln-oat. Follir'es2, roundisli, patent. 

 Seeds pendulous, surrounded with an oblong netted wing. 



Trunk slender, straight, 16 to 20 feet high, nnd from 1 to 1| broad. 

 Bark thin, yellowish-grey. Wood yellow, very hard, lough, close- 

 grained, and one of the finest in the Colony. It serves the cabinet- 

 maker for furniture and veneering, but is particularly adapted for the 

 manufacture of planes and carpenter's tools, engraving, &c. It is useful 

 also for poles, yokes, ploughs, &c. 



This tree, whcse flowers fill the surrounding atmosphere Avith their 

 delightful smell, is pretty common in the aboriginal woods of the 

 Tzitsikamma, Krakakamma, and Addo (Uitenhage). Fl. October. 



LOGANIACEJ^. Endl. 



82.* Atherstonea JDecnssata. {Cajje Teak, ov Kajatenh out.) 

 — Branches and hranchlets decussate, 2-3 forked ; upper twigs 

 compressed, knotty. Leaves opposite or fascicled at the top of the 

 branchlets, ovate or ovate-oblong, entire, blunt, triplinerved, 

 revolute, leathery, smooth, glossy, pale and netted-veined below, 

 cuneate and lengthened into a short petiole, 1-2 inches long, \ to 

 an inch broad. Inter j)etiolary stipules represented by elevated 

 ridges at the bases of the leaf-stalks. Flowers hermaphrodite, 

 corymbose, minute, greenish; corymbs axillary, few-flowered, 

 bracts opposite, amplexicaul, concave, acute. Calyx 4-5 partite, 

 free, its segments ovate, blunt, and fringed at the margins. Corolla 

 monopetalous, regular, campanulate, externally smooth, internally 

 villoso-barbate ; lobes lanceolate, incurved at top and spreading 

 on expansion ; aestivation valvate. Stamens 4-5 adhering, to the 

 corolla, and alternating with the lobes ; anthers 2 locular, oval, 

 erect, introrse ; style simple, thickish, subcapitate, shorter than the 

 stamens ; genitals enclosed. Ovary 2 celled (?) Drupe oblong, 

 smooth. Seeds unknown. 



This tree grows 20-25 feet high, and from 1 to 1^ feet broad. Bark 

 brown, rimpied. H ood reddish-brown, hard, heavy, tough, and less 

 brittle than Oak. It serves in the manufacture of rural utensils, but is 

 chiefly employed in the form of staves for cooper's work. 



Grows in the thickets and forests of Uitenhage, Olifant's Hoek, and 

 elsewhere in the districts of tlie Eastern Province. Fl. JSTovember. 



SCROPHULARIACEtE. Juss. 



83. Halleria Lucida. Lin. {White Olive.) — Stem trichoto- 

 mously branched. Branches spreading. Leaves petiolate, oppo- 



* Named in honour of Dr. W. G. Atherstone, of Graham's Town, a gentleman 

 whose merits rendered to South African Botany and Geology rank high, and to 

 whom I am under great obligations for valuable information towards this work. 



