Q. arborea (Burch. ex D.C. Prodr. 1, 786). 
A shrub 8 ft. to a tree 30-40 ft. high. Bark smooth. Branches with light or dark 
grey bark, with prominent lenticels and with the epidermis often peeling in 
membranous flakes. Leaves subsessile, 1°5-6°5 cm. long, (8—3 cm. broad, mostly elliptic 
more rarely lanceolate-elliptic or obovate, obtuse or rounded at the apex, rarely acute, 
narrowed or rounded at the base, quite entire or appearing so to the naked eye, very rarely 
distinctly serrated ; teeth when present more or less subulate and adpressed to the margin 
of the leaf (except Wood 5878, in which the serrations are distinct). Inflorescence less than 
1 cm. long, in a much abbreviated raceme of 3-7 flowers, very rarely solitary or 2-3-nate 
at the apex of short shoots. Pedicels (V7—-1'2 cm. long, articulated about 1 mm. from the 
base. Sepals 6°5 mm. long, 3:5-5 mm. broad, elliptic or ovate-elliptic, rounded at the apex. 
Peials “15-18 cm. long, 23-55) mm. broad, oblong or oblong-obovate, cuneate at the base. 
Filaments 2°5-3 mim. long; anthers 1:5) mm. long, oblong in outline. Ovary of 4-6 carpels; 
style 5°5-6 mm. long: stigmas as many as the carpels, or sometimes stigma subglobose. 
Fruit ellipsoid or almost kidney-shaped, attached to the torus at the middle. —* Flora 
Capensis,” I, 449; Som, ‘Forest and Forest Flora.” 163 pl. LHI 
George Dist.: George, August. Rogers 4039; Woodville Forest, George, Sim in Herb. Forest 
Dept. 3116, 3117. Knysna Dist.: Knysna Commonage, Keel 498; Christies Kloof, Gouna, near 
Knysna, Collector (') in Herb. Forest Dept. 1312: Gouna River, September, Keet in Herb. 
Forest Dept. 2529 ; WKaffirkop Forest, c. 1500 ft.. January, Watten in Herb. Forest Dept. 2943 ; 
De Eiland, Rabbets in National Herb. 1420, 1421. Uitenhage Dist.: Oliphants Hoek and 
Addo, September—October, #. and Z. 924; Zuurberg, Drege. Alexandria Dist.: Forests 
near Alexandria. Strauch in Herb. Forest De pl. 7012, 3013, 3005. Albany Dist. : Blaauw 
Krantz Bridge, October, Galpin 265: without precise locality, #. and Z.; Bothas Hall, 
December, Salisbury 357: Salentown, Zeyher: near G rahamstown, MacOwan 110. 
Stockenstrom Dist. : Katberg Mis. Hobson 1446. Kast London Dist. : Coast near Kast 
London, April, Sim 2153; East London, July, Miss Gane 260; near Nahoon River, 
August, Galpin 3291. Kingwilliamstown Dist. : Along the Buffalo River, near Kingwilliams- 
town, November, Flanagan 359: Horseshoe Forest, December, Whithal in Herb. Forest Dept. 
2941; Mkobisa Forest, December, Van der Merwe in Herb. Forest Dept. 2939; Western Pirie 
Forest, January, Kopke in Herb. Forest Dept. 2940. Victoria East Dist.: Auckland 
Forest, January, Ackermann in Herb. Forest Dept. 2942. Komgha Dist.: Woods near 
Prospect Farm, November, Flanagan 359. WKentani Dist.: Forest near Kentani, July, 
Miss Pegler 1216. Pondoland, Mpingo Forest, Fegen im Herb. Forest Dept. 3033, 3089. 
Natal: Port Natal, Gueivzins ; Inanda, August, Wood 687, and in Natal Govt. Herb. 
5878; without precise locality, Gerrard and McKen 834, and in Natal Govt. Herb. 73; 
Victoria County, Wood: Shafton, Howick, Mrs. Hutton 153. y 
Delagoa Bay: F. and Z. 926: Madame Borl’ 176, 16; Rogers 21373. 
A large shrub (Wood). A forest tree, 15 ft. high, with masses of yellow flowers (Miss 
Pegler). A small tree throughout the whole of the Knysna Forest; generally used for 
making handles of tools and axes ; wood very strong and heav y and of great durability ; Ë 
seeds attacked by caterpillars (Herb. Forest Dept. 1342). 
O. O’Connorii, Phillips. Arbor. Cortex plana. Folia 5-10 cm. longa, 1°3-5 em. lata, 
lanceolata, raro elliptica vel ovato-lanceolata, apice paullo angustata, obtusa, 
Inflorescentia in racemo brevissime disposita ; flores solitarii vel 2—3-nati. Fructus 
1°5 cm. long, 8 cm. latus, reniformis. 
A tree. Bark comparatively smooth, somewhat flaky and ` chippy,” beet-red beneath 
the surface (O'Connor). Branchlets somewhat pustulate, reddish-brown to dark-brown in 
colour, not flaking. Leaves 5-10 cm. long (usually 6-8 cm. long), 1—8:5 em. broad, lanceolate, 
rarely elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, slightly tapering at the apex, rarely acuminate or rounded 
and retuse, obtuse, sometimes slightly tapering to the base and rounded, with the mid-rib- 
