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Found ill the thickets and woody ravines on the east side of Table 

 Mountain, and in many other localities. Fl. December. 



SANTALACE^ R. Br. 



93. Osyris Compressa. A. DC. (Thesium Colpoon,Thhg.) 

 (Pruiyjibast.) — Srawhes tricliotomous, erect; t^vigs angular, 

 compressed, smooth. Leaves on short stalks, opposite, ovate, entire, 

 mucronate, glabrous. Floivei^s monoecious, small, paniculate, 

 terminal. Corolla none. Perianth turbinate, 4 cleft ; stamens 

 4 ; style short ; stigma 4 lobed. Drupe baccate, obovate, one- 

 seeded. Berg. Plant. Cap. Tab 1. Fig 1. 



Height of stem from 4 to 5 feet ; diameter 4 to 6 inches. BarTi grey 

 thin. Wood heavy, fine grained ; useful to the turner and joiner, and 

 very fit for fancy work. The whole of this bush contains a great deal 

 of tanning matter, and is for that reason employed by many colonists 

 for that purpose. 



Common in most of the Western parts of the Colony. Fl. May. 



MORE^. Endl. 



94. Urostigma Natalense. Miq. — Much branched. Branches 

 patent, wrinkled, white, smooth. Leaves at the top of the branches 

 stalked, obovate, bluntly-pointed, entire, membranaceous, glabrous, 

 penninerved and netted beneath. Flowers moncBcious, crowded, 

 enclosed within small, fleshy, globose, pisiform receptacles, which 

 are solitary, axillary, almost sessile, and supported at their bases 

 by 3 bracts. 



The wild Fig-tree (the t'Kaa or Na-touw of the Hottentots and the 

 Uluzi of the Kafirs) grows to a considerable height ; its diameter being 

 from 8 to 10 inches. i?a?-^ white, smooth Wood \\\^\\t, spongy, very 

 porous. T\\Q fibres of the bark serve the natives for the manufocture of 

 very serviceable ropes. 



Common in the aboriginal forests of the Uiteuhage, Albany, and 

 Victoria East districts; also in Caffraria Proper, and at Fort Natal. Fl. 

 July. 



95. Sycomorus Capensis, Miq. (Bush-Jig, or Malabar-tree ) 

 — Branches v/hite, spreading. Leaves stalked, ovate or ovate- 

 oblong, entire or sinuato-dentate, apiculate, veined, smooth, 

 membranous, pale on the underside, three or four times as long 

 as the petioles. Fruit stalked, scattered on the branches, top- 



these symptoms had first made their appearance, found the child in spasms and 

 nearly insensible. Emetics and antispasmodics promptly administered jjroved 

 ineffective, and the poor little sufferer soon expired under convulsions. 



At a post-mortem examitiation made next day, the entire mucous membrane of 

 the stomach and bowels, and particularly that of the colon, Mas found inflamed ; 

 the stomach empty and the other viscera perfectly healthy. 



