Bersama.] xliv. sapindace^; (bakek). 435 



4-valved, |-£ in. deep.— B. integrifolia, Rich. PL Abyss, i. 107. L 26. B. 

 serrata, Rich. 1. c. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! Dillon and Petit ! and others. 

 Native name ' Bersama.' 

 Also a plant of Natal. 



The two names of the ' Flora Abyssinica ' evidently only represent the fully developed 

 male and female forms of one species. 



3. B. paullinioides, Baker. A tree 30 ft. high with terete finely 

 sulcate branches, very slightly grey-downy when young. Petioles 1-3 in. 

 long with an ovate-acuminate stipule at the base \-\ in. long, densely grey- 

 silky on the back. Leaves imparipinnate, 6-12 in. long, with 7-10 pairs of 

 slightly stalked oblong leaflets, which are 2-4 in. long, about half as broad, 

 the point acute, the edge faintly toothed, the base subcuneate or slightly 

 rounded ; texture membranous, both sides quite glabrous, the upper dark green, 

 the lower paler, veins not raised. Flowers in moderately dense axillary ra- 

 cemes, 3-6 in. long, 1 in. broad, on glabrous woody peduncles 2-3 in. long. 

 Pedicels 2-3 lines long, grey-silky with a minute subulate bract at the base. 

 Calyx campanulate, dark green, grey-silky, with 4 oblong lobes reaching 

 halfway down, the lowest emarginate. Petals white, twice as long as the 

 calyx, ligulate with a small scale, the lowest much narrower than the others. 

 Stamens 4, the filaments dilated downwards, only the 2 lower ones connate at 

 'he base. Ovary ovoid, densely grey-silky, narrowed gradually into the style. 

 Fruit unknown.— Natalia, Planch, in Fl. Nigrit. 252. t. 29. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, T. Vogel I Barter I Fernando Po, Mann ! 



Order XLV. ANACARDIACEjE (by Prof. Oliver). 



Flowers small, regular, unisexual, polygamous or hermaphrodite. Calyx 

 usually 3-4-5-fid or -partite, in a few genera -(not African) accrescent. 1 e- 

 W* as many as and alternate with the calyx-lobes, free, rarely 0. Disk an- 

 nular, flat or cup-shaped, entire or lobed, sometimes inconspicuous. Stamens 

 18 many as and alternate with the petals or twice as many, rarely more nu- 

 merous (Sorindeia, Sclerocarya) ; filaments free ; anthers basi- or dorsi-fixed, 

 dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary, in female flowers, 1-celled (Anacardtea) or 

 2 ~5-celled {Spondieee) ; in male flowers 0, rudimentary or 3-5-fid. Styles 

 *-4 or stigma subsessile. Ovules solitary (in pairs in Sclerocarya, Kirk), 

 Pendulous or suspended from a basal funicle or laterally affixed. Fruit 

 free, usually drupaceous, 1-5-celled, 1-5-seeded. Seed almost invariably 

 exalbuminous, with fleshy plano-convex cotyledons and a short radicle — 

 Trees or shrubs, often abounding in a caustic or resinous juice. Leaves 



Trees or shrubs, often abounding in a caustic or resinous juice. Leaves 

 alternate, frequently crowded toward the ends of the branches, exstipulate, 

 3 -foliolate or unequally pinnate, rarely simple. Inflorescence various. 



A large family of tropical and warm countries, common to both hen 

 tallowing genera are peculiar to Africa. Several species remain very 

 »nd some, of which we have insufficient examples, are un described her 

 "icideutally referred to under their respective genera or apparent allies. 



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