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dense tomentella. Stamina 10; filamenta 5-6 mm. longa, 
intus medio vel infra medium appendice dense villosa; anthers 
elliptico-oblonge, 1 mm. longe. Discus subcylindricus, 1 mm. 
altus, cirea 1:5 mm. diametro, 10-sulcatus, apice concavus. 
Ovarii segmenta 5, 0°75 mm. longa, vix 0'5 mm. lata; styli 
ea sub:quantes fere ad apicem connata, inferne dense pilosa. 
Toro, 1300 m., Dawe, 458. 
Balanites Wilsoniana, Dawe et Sprague, sp. nov.; fructuum 
et foliolorum magnitude insignis. 
Arbor 19-97 m. alta, cortice viridi-griseo, statu juvenili 
spinosa. Rami teretes, nigro-virides, glabri, juniores striati 
nitiduli. Folia 2-foliolata; petiolus 1-2 cm. longus, supra 
canaliculatus ; foliola elliptico-ovata, acute acuminata, basi 
rotundata vel subeuneata, 7-9 cm. longa, 4-6 em. lata (juvenilia 
lanceolata, circa 2:5 cm. lata), coriacea, glabra, opaca, venis 
lateralibus utrinque circa 8 ascendentibus, supra inconspiculs, 
subtus prominulis, costa subtus prominente ; petioluli 05-1 em. 
longi, conspicue canalieulati. Spine 0'5-l em. supra axillas 
ortz, plerumque bifurcæ, crure majore usque 8 cm. longo. 
Drupa juvenilis subeylindriea, apicem et basin versus paullo 
angustata, quinquesulcata, cirea 7 cm. longa, 2-275 cm. crassa, 
matura ellipsoidea, 7-8 cm. longa, 5:5-65 em. crassa; epi- 
earpium circa 8 mm. crassum, carnosum, extra subcrustaceum, 
vittis 5 longitudinalibus, inter vittis lenticellis longitudinaliter 
elongatis dense obtectum ; mesocarpium e fibris in pulpa nidulan- 
tibus compositum, resin: redolens; endoearpium lignosum, circa 
7-8 mm. crassum. Semina crasse fusiformia, longitudinaliter 
sulcata, 4°5 em. longa, 29:5 em. crassa, testa crustacea pulverulenta. 
Toro: Kibale Forest, Dawe, 511; also found in Unyoro and 
Semliki Forests. Native name, “ Lukauyu.” 
[The fruits of this tree are much sought after by elephants, 
who are mainly responsible for its distribution, the seed passing 
through the animals undigested. I have frequently seen clumps 
of seedlings which have come up in elephants’ droppings. The 
seed affords an oil used as an unguent by the Baamba people of 
Semliki Forests, who also use the seed for food.—M. T. D.] 
The bifurcation of the supra-axillary spines is due to the 
main axis of the spine being bent to one side by the almost 
equally vigorous growth of a lateral brancb, which is borne in 
the axil of a minute scale-leaf. A single young spine on Dawe's 
