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leaflets opposite, except the terminal, stalked-one, nearly sessile, 

 ovate or ovate-oblong, penninerved, acute, oblique at base, per- 

 fectly smooth. Flowers paniculate, jmnicles slender, axillary ; 

 pedicels compressed ; branches of the panicles loosely cymose. 

 Calyx bell-shaped, 4 — 5 cleft ; sepals sharp-pointed ; petals 

 oblong. Stamens united into an undivided, cylindrical anther- 

 bearing tube. Anthers 8 — 10. Style smooth ; stigma thick, 

 obscurely lobed. Fruit, a capsule, unknown. (^Sonder.) 



A tree 15—25 feet high, 1 or 2 wide. Bark reddish-brown. 



Wood soft, white and of little value. 



Grows iu the forests of the Tzitsikamma, Olifantshoek, and Natal. Fl. 

 November. 



15. Eckehergia Capensis. Sparrm. (Fssenliout; Cape Ash.) 

 — Branches alternate, scarred, smooth, spreading. Leaves placed 

 at the tops of the branches, aggregate, imparipinnate ; leaflets in 

 4-5 pairs, oblong, entire, glabrous, pointed at both ends, unequally 

 sided. Calyx 4 fid; ijetals 4; stamens very short, with anthers 

 sessile, within the tube; stigma capitate. Flowers axillary and 

 terminal, paniculate. Berry round, 5 seeded. 



A lofty tree, 20 to 30 feet, or more, in height ; 2 to 3 feet in diameter. 

 Bark grey. Wood white, tough, and close. Useful timber for beams, 

 planks, spars, carriage-poles, etc., and employed for all kinds of wagon 

 work, and iu the manufacture of many implements, tools, &c 



Found in the primeval forests of the George, Uitenhage, Albany, and 

 Victoria districts. Fl. August. 



DIOSME^. R. Br. 



16. Calodendron Capense. Thhg. {Wilde Kastanie ; wild 

 Chesnut.) — Branches and twigs divaricating. Leaves stalked, 

 opposite, simple, entire, ovate, obtuse, ribbed, crossed at right 

 angles. Flowers terminal on short, shaggy peduncles ; pani- 

 culated. Calyx deciduous, 5 cleft ; petals glanduliferous. Stamens 

 10 ; style 1. Capsule 5 angled, 5 celled ; cells 2 seeded. 



Height 20 to 30 feet, diameter 2 to 3 feet. Ba?'k smooth, whitish-grey. 

 Wood soft, white, and little used, except for rural utensils, yokes, poles. 

 &c. Its inflorescence somewhat resembles that of the Horse-Chesnut 

 (Aesculus Hippocastanuni), and hence its colonial name. Like most 

 plants belonging to the family of the Diosmece, the flowers diflfuse a very 

 strong, but pleasant odour 



This fine tree grows in the forests of the Swellendam, George, Uiten- 

 hage, and Albany districts, Brit. Cafii-aria, &c. Fl. December — January. 



AURANTIACE^. CORR. 



17. Myarisin(Bqiialis. Presl. Branches ^' hranchlets round, 

 greyish-white. Leaves impari-pinnate ; leaflets stalked, alternate, 



