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Ghloroxylon Swietenia, D.C., " Satin Wood." — Native of the 

 mountains in India, where it is said to be rapidly disappearing 

 under the woodman's axe. The wood is valuable, the finer 

 grained specimens especially so. Our plant was a slender 

 twiggy shrub in 1882, never made much growth, and died in 

 a few years. When it was planted we do not know. 



Gytisus pvoliferus albus. — This, I understand, is merely a 

 variety of Cytisus proliferus Linn. A native of the Canary 

 Islands. It was highly extolled as a fodder plant, but did not 

 find much favour in Natal amongst those to whom we distri- 

 buted seed and plants. It was not suited to the coast, but 

 grew fairly well in the upper districts ; still farmers did not 

 take kindly to a fodder plant which assumed the form of a 

 flowering shrub and reached to 10 or 12 feet in height. It is 

 a valuable plant for apiarists. 



Convolvulus scammonia, L. — A native of Asia Minor, which 

 yields the purgative drug " scammony." 



Ghrysophyllum cainito, Linn., " Star Apple." — A West Indian 

 tree bearing an edible fruit said to be as large as an apple. 

 Our plant was put out in 1894, and has borne fruit several 

 times, but probably in consequence of the very dry seasons the 

 fruits have been small and not of great excellence ; when the 

 trees are older an improvement may take place. The plant is 

 a spreading shrub and seems quite healthy. In a list of plants 

 in the Gardens planted in 1876 this plant appears, but must 

 have died quite young as it was not in the Garden in 1882 

 when I took charge. 



Gola acuminata, $chott. — The fruit of this plant is known as 

 the Cola nut, and is an article of commerce. The tree is a 

 native of West Africa, and plants have been put out in the 

 Garden but make little growth, and do not seem likely to 

 succeed here. We have one species of the genus 0. natalensis, 

 which is not uncommon in coast and midland districts. Its 

 seeds are not so large as those of the C. acuminata, but as it is 

 indigenous and forms a small tree it is possible that the true 

 cola of commerce might be grafted upon it. 



Garya oliviformis, Nuttall. — " The Peccan Nut " of North 

 America has been tried here without success. It is more 

 suited to the upper districts of the colony. 



Oaryophyllus aromaticus, Linn., " The Clove." — Two plants 

 were in the Garden in 1882. They were in a sheltered place 

 and were quite healthy and had to be removed to make room 



