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149-19? S. lat.) ; Gazaland, Swynnerton, 145, 146, 1396, 1425 ; Mozambique, 
Vasse, 297, Stuhlmann, 856, 868 (types), Dawe, 312, 511. 
An important hard-wood timber of the S.E. tropical part of Africa, known 
to the native races as Musala, Panga-panga, Chicuswa, Pangira, and Mpangeli. 
Sim (/. c.) mentions that it is planted as a shade-tree from stem-cuttings 
along the roads at Quisico. It is frequent in M'Chopeo and Inhambane 
(extra-tropical) and abundant in the tropical forests of Quilimane, Magenja 
da Costa, and Nhamacurra. 
90, M. Lavrentu, De Wild. in Belg. Colon. 1904, 378 ; Mission Laurent, 
109; Notice Pl. Utiles Congo, 341; Ann. Mus. Congo, sér. 5, i. 259, ii. 147 ; 
Compagnie de Kasai, 310; Dunn in Journ, Dot. xlix. (1911) 221.—M. Tess- 
manni, Harms in Engl. Jahrb. xlv. (1910) 310. 
Arbor magna, cortice lenticellato, præter inflorescentiam glabra; gemmæ 
lenticulares. Folia 6-juga, 30-40 cm. longa, petiolo 4-plo longiora ; stipulæ 
minute, caducæ ; foliola lateralia superiora oblonga, acuminata, caudata, 
basi acuta, ad 12 em. longa, papyracea, siccitate nigrescentia, utrinque 
reticulata, venis marginem proxime appropinquantibus 8—9-paribus supra et 
subtus prominulis; petioluli 5-8 mm. longi; stipelle nulle. Ратна 
angusta terminalis, 25-35 em. longa, rachi dense puberula ; ramuli floriferi 
1:5-3 em. longi, ut ealyces dense adpresse aureo-sericei, — "lores approximati, 
1:9 em. longi; pedicelli graciles, 3-5 mm. longi. Calyx campanulatus, 
1-8 mm. longus, dentibus oblongis tubo paullo longioribus; bracteolee 
2-4 mm. longs. Petala glabra, lilacina ; vexilli lamina rotundata, basi 
cordata et bicallosa, auriculis lamine inflexis et callorum erectis, ungue bis 
longior; ale carinæque petala oblongie, hamatæ. Stamina monadelpha, 
vexillare basi solutum. Discus calyci adnatus, apice lobulatus. Ovarium 
lineare, pubescens, multiovulatum. Legumen lineari- oblongum, apice 
acuminatum, basi angustatum, 15-25 em. longum, 575-4 em. latum, glabrum, 
dehiscens ; valvie опок. 
Flowers March to October, fruit November. 
CoxGo Free SrATE: Leopoldville and Kutu, Laurent (type); Kasai 
region, Bunge, Sapin. 
Frencu Conco: Brazzaville, Brazza and Thollon, 18. 
SPANISH GUINEA : Akonanga, Tessmann, 940, B 228. 
Produces a fine ebony known as Л Botu in the Lower Congo district. 
91. M. micans, Taub. in Engl. Pflanzenw. Ох Дун. C, 212; Dunn in 
Journ. Bot. xlix. (1911) 221. 
Arbor? cortice primo velutino. Folia 3-5-juga, 20-30 em. longa, тас 
ferruginea ; stipellie. persistentes, oblong:e, acute, 1 em. longæ vel longiores 
peltate juxta basin affixe ; foliola lateralia superiora oblonga. breviter 
acuminata, basi rotundata vel truncata et subeordata, 10-15 em. longa, 
coriacea, supra pubescentia, venis tomentosis, subtus molliter tomentosa, 
