Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Cultivated in this 
country at Eltham, by Dr. Sherard before 1730. Blossoms 
- in the greenhouse in autumn and winter. 
A thinly-branched shrub, at ten or eleven years old (with 
us), scarcely a yard high; stem hardly of the thickness of 
the little finger, knottedly scarred by the shedding of the 
smaller branches; bark blackish brown marked with grey 
lines and dots; branches from nine inches to a foot in 
length. Leaves decussately opposite, roundedly oblong, some- 
times broadly retuse but generally without any sinus at the 
end; coriaceous, greyishly green, the green varying from 
lighter to darker, smooth, obsoletely veined... Flowers white, 
smelling like those of the common Privet, axillary and ter- 
“minal, disposed in closer looser thyrsiform panicles. Calyx 
small, 4-toothed. Corolla of one piece, short, with scarcely 
any tube, equally 4-cleft.. Anthers saffron-coloured. 
We have trusted to Dillenius for the above description. 
The fruit is a Small oblong Olive, at no stage, we believe, 
applicable to the purposes of ceconomy, to which the Eu- 
ropean Olive is applied: 
The drawing was taken at the Nursery of Messrs. Col- 
vill, in the King’s Road, Chelsea, where the plant is kept 
in the greenhouse. Breche < 
