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not unlike those of Sambucus 7iigra (Elder). Calyx 4 cleft, bell- 

 shaped, tomentose. Stamens 4, exserted ; style 1 , short. Capsule 

 ovate, 4 valved, 4 seeded. Jacq. Hort, Schoenbr. t. 29. 



A small tree. Height without the branches about 10 feet ; diameter 

 8 to 10 inches. Wood hard and tough. Usi^d (or common furniture, 

 chairs, table-feet, &c. 



To be met with in the Cape, Swellendam, and Uitenhage districts. 

 Fl. November— December. 



87. Duddleia Salvicefolia. Lamh. (^Sage-wood) — Much bran- 

 ched. Branches quadrangular ; twigs erect, switchy. Leaves 

 almost sessile, opj3osite, lanceolate, crenate, cordate, acute, veined, 

 rugose, dark green above, and covered beneath with a thick rust- 

 coloured shag, along with the twigs, calyces, and flowers. Flowers 

 clustered, terminal, numerous, paniculated; p^^/^^67e.s' ovato-pyra- 

 midate. Calyx bell-shaped, 4 parted. Corolla regular, funnel- 

 shaped, 4 fid, yellow. Stamens 4:-, s^?//e simple. Ca^sw/e 2 valved, 

 many seeded. Jacq. Hort, Schoenbrun t. 28. 



Height 12 to 15 feet ; diameter 8 to 10 inches. Wood hard, tough, 

 heavy, and well suited for wagonwork, ramrods, yokes, and rural 

 utensils of every kind. Mr. S. J. Hartman, an old experienced resident 

 in the Eastern Province, and an undoubted authority on frontier matters, 

 informs me, that it was this tree chiefly which furnished the Kafir 

 warriors with shafts, for their javelius or assagais. 



Common in the districts of George, Uitenhage, Alban,y and Victoria 

 East. Fl. January -February. 



LAURINEzE. Juss. 



88. Oreodaphne JBullata. Nees ah. E. (Stinkivood, Stink- 

 hout.) — Much branched. Branches divaricating, smooth. Leaves 

 alternate, leathery, elliptical, veiny, netted, glabrous, entire, 

 attenuated into a channelled stalk, and having at the axils of the 

 lower costal veins on the underside deep hollows, ciliated at their 

 edges, and showing on the upper surface corresponding blisterlike 

 protuberances. Floivers small, racemose ; racemes lateral or 

 axillary. Peria7ith 6 parted ; lobes obtuse, deciduous. Corolla 

 none. Stamens 9 ; glands of the outer-stamens large, capitate. 

 'Style tapering; stigma peltate. Berry surrounded at base by 

 the enlarged, thickened, cup-shaped tube of the perianth. Hooker. 

 Bot. Magz. t. 3,931 



Height from 60-70 feet; diameter from 3-5. Bark dark-grey, 

 moderately thick. The Wood of this beautiful tree (Mr. Barrow's 

 African Oak*) smells very disagreeably when cut or worked at, and 

 owing to the different stages of growth, three distinct varieties, the 

 white^ mottled, and dark, are produced by the same species. Siinkwood 

 is hard and durable, and the mottled and dark take an excellent polish 



* Tho true African Oak of commerce is Oldfithlia Afriranu. Benth. & Hook 



