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Transactions of the Royal Society of So7ith A frica. 
SAPINDALES (CELASTRALES). 
Buxaceae. 
Buxus L. is represented by a native species in the coast forests from 
Alexandria to Pondoland. Notohuxus Oliv. occurs from the Transkei ta 
Pondoland. 
Anacardiaceae. 
The genus Rhus L. is generally distributed over South Africa where 
suitable conditions for its growth prevail. Loxostylis Spreng. f. extends 
from the western parts of the Uit. and P. E. divs. to Natal. Laurophyllus 
Thunb. extends from Yan Stadens to Swellendam. Harpephyllum Burch. 
does not grow west of Uitenhage, and extends to Natal. The absence of 
Heeria Meisn. {Anaphrenium E. Mey.) is somewhat strange. It extends 
from the western, north-western and north-eastern parts to the Fish Eiver 
valley near Grrahamstown. The following are also absent : Protorhus Engl, 
(from the Pirie forest eastward), /S'mofZm^ mm E. Mey. (Transkei, Basutoland 
and Natal), Sclerocarya Hochst. and Lannea Eich. [^Odina Eosb.] (both 
eastern and north-eastern). 
Aquifoliaceae. 
The only South African genus Ilex L. occurs from the Cape Peninsula 
to Natal and beyond. 
Celastraceae. 
Only Gymnosporia W. & A. is generally distributed, the remaining 
genera are mostly found in the coast belt from the Cape Peninsula to Natal. 
Catha Forsk. (Methyscophyllum E. & Z.), though not restricted to South 
Africa, is in South Africa only found in the Queenstown and Cathcart 
divs., Pleurostylia W. & A. extends from the Uit. and P. E. divs. to Natal,, 
Mystroxylon E. & Z. from the Cape Peninsula to Natal and the Transvaal, 
Hartogia Thunb. (absent from continental tropical Africa, but found in 
Madagascar) from Eiversdale to Uitenhage and Albsinj, Elaeodendr on Jacq. 
from the Gauritz Eiver to Natal and the Transvaal. The following are 
endemic : PutterlicTcia Endl. (Cape Peninsula, Uit. and P. E. divs. to Natal), 
Pterocelastrus Meisn. (Saldanha Bay to Natal and Transvaal), Maurocenia L. 
(restricted to S.W. Cape Colony), Lauridia E. & Z. (Cape Peninsula and 
from P. E. and Uit. divs. to Kentani, also in Damaraland), Cassine L. 
(Clanwilliam to Natal). 
Hippocrateaceae. 
Salacia L. is found in Natal and the Transvaal, Hippocratea L. on the 
borders of the Tropics and at Kentani. 
Icacinaceae. 
I have no record from the Uit. or P. E. divs. of Cassinopsis Sond. 
