Kirkia.] xxxiv. siMAiiUBEiE (oliveh). 311 



planate, emarginate at base, much exceeding the tapering, subacute, superior 

 radicle. — A glabrous tree. Leaves usually somewhat clustered at the ends 

 of the branches, alternate, multifoliolate, exstipulate ; leaflets subopposite or 

 alternate, obliquely lanceolate, finely acuminate, serrulate. Flowers in nu- 

 merous, pedunculate, cymose corymbs from the axils of the upper leaves, 

 forming a broad leafy panicle ; pedicellate, pedicels equalling or shorter than 

 the flowers. 



But one species known, restricted to Zambesi-land, where it was discovered by Dr. Kirk, 

 to whom we are indebted for so many important additions to our knowledge of the natural 

 history of that region. 1 am glad to have the opportunity of associating his name with a 

 plant, discovered by himself, and of peculiar botanical interest. 



1. K. acuminata, Oliv. Extremities terete, smooth, glabrous, rather 

 stout, from the thickness of a goose-quill to -| in. in diam. Leaves ^— 1 ft. long ; 

 leaflets 13-19, approximated in pairs, shortly petiolulate, lanceolate to ovate- 

 lanceolate, with a free acumen, base very oblique, the upper margin being 

 broadly rounded or semicordate, broadly serrulate, glabrous, firmly membra- 

 nous, epunctate, lf-3 in. long, £-1 in. broad ; petiolule 1-2 lines. Pedun- 

 cles straight, rather rigid, unbranched to 2-4 in., then at first more or less 

 3-chotomously divided with ascending divergent branches. Flowers, before 

 expansion, about 2 lines long. Fruit £ in. long, 2f-3 lines broad. Car- 

 pophore continuous to the apex, often persistent with its 4 hooked apices 

 after the fall of the cocci.— Hook. Ic. PL 1036. 



Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi, at Lupata, and near Senna, Br. Kirk ! (flower in Dec, 

 fruit April). 



In all the flowers which I have examined of this plant, I find the ovary very minute, es- 

 pecially so in those in which the stamens appear to be fully developed. 



4. HARBISONIA, Brown ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL i. 314. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx 5-4-fid or -partite, small. Petals as many 

 as calyx-lobes, considerably longer, slightly imbricate or subvalvate. Sta- 

 mens tw ice as many as petals ; filaments with an adnate pilose scale. Ovary 

 5-y4-lobed (in the African plant), inserted upon a fleshy disk ; style simple ; 

 stigma 5-toothed. Ovules solitary, pendulous. Fruit small, subglobose (in 

 the Indian specimens), with 4-5* bony 1 -seeded pyrenes. "Seeds albumi- 

 **■ Cotyledons conduplicate." — Glabrate or pubescent shrubs, usually 

 with lateral aculei by the insertion of the leaves. Leaves imparipinnate ; leaf- 

 Jets opposite. Flowers rather small, in axillary or subterminal cymes, some- 

 times racemose. 



A A sm . a H genus, restricted, with the following exception, to the Malay Archipelago and 

 straha. Its affinity appears to be with the tribe Simarubeee. 



*• H. abyssinica, Oliv. A shrub. Annual shoots pubescent. Prickles 

 Ver y short, more or less hooked. Leaves 2-3 in. long ; leaflets in about 3 

 Pairs, obovate-elliptical or oval, obtuse, remotely dentate-serrate (1-3 teeth 

 °ii each side) or occasionally lobed, base cuneate and oblique in the sessile 

 * eral leaflets, usually narrowed into a winged petiolule in the terminal one, 

 ratller coriaceous, glabrous or glabrate, excepting on the midrib beneath 



