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Noltea (after E. F. Nolte, professor of botany at Kiel; born 1791). Rhamnaceae. Soapbush. An evergreen glabrous shrub from S. Afr., with alternate short- petioled serrate Lvs., small deciduous stipules and with small white polygamous fls. in terminal and axillary panicles: calyx campanulate. 5-lobed; petals 5, small, shorter than sepals, cucullate; the 5 stamens opposite the petals; ovary half-inferior, 3-celled; style rather short, with slightly 3-lobed stigma: fr. a caps., 3-valved, septicidal with 3 erect compressed seeds. The whole plant is saponaceous and the macerated foliage is used by the natives in washing. Sometimes used as a hedge plant in S. Afr. Cult, occasionally in S. Calif., though it has scarcely any particular ornamental quality. Prop, is by hardwood or greenwood cuttings and also by seeds. N. africana, Reichb. (Ceanothus africanus, Linn.). Upright shrub with vir- gate branches, to 12 ft.: Lvs. oblong-lanceolate, serrate, obtuse, pale green below, 1-2 in. long; stipules small, roundish, thickish: fls. whitish, ⅙ in. across in short axillary and terminal panicles crowded at the end of the branches into leafy panicles several inches long: caps.⅓ in. across. S. Afr. Sim, Forests and For. Fl. Cape of Good Hope, 37. 
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
<!--- xxxxx  *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381  -->
<!--- xxxxx  *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432  -->
<!--- xxxxx  *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608  -->

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