] XLV. ANACAKDIACE2E (OLIVER). 449 



leaf which may or may not belong to the same species as a plant in the Kew herbarium, 

 Barked "Spondias Zanzee, G. Don!" by M. Planchon, which I. take to be S. microcarpa, 

 Rich. Don, however, states that his S. Zanzee has a small black fruit. 



9. SCLEROCARYA, Hochst. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL i. 427. 



Flowers dioecious or polygamous. Sepals 4 (rarely 5), roundish, imbri- 

 cating, coloured. Petals as many, rotundate or obovate, spreading or re- 

 flexed, imbricate in aestivation. Male fl. : Stamens 12-24, inserted round a 

 small fleshy disk. Female fl. : (I have not examined). Ovary subglobose, 

 *-3-celled. Styles short, thick, distinct, with peltate stigmas ; (ovules, ac- 

 cording to Dr. Kirk, 2 in each cell, pendulous). Drupe with a 2-3-celled 

 putamen, 1 seed in each cell. Seeds exalbuminous. Cotyledons fleshy, 

 °uy, radicle superior. — Trees. Leaves alternate, unequally pinnate, clustered 

 « the ends of the branches, glabrous ; leaflets opposite or subopposite. 

 Male flowers in spicate racemes. 



a small genus confined to Africa and the Mascarene Islands. 



|*ave3 7-11-foliolate ; petiohiles usually i-1 in \. S. Caffra. 



waves 9-23-foliolate ; petiolules 0-2 lines 2. 5. Birrea. 



*• S, Caffra, Sond. in Linnaa, xxiii. 26. A glabrous tree. Leaves 

 ^ther coriaceous, clustered toward the ends of the branches, 7-11-foliolate, 

 '-15 in. long; leaflets usually on long petiolules, oblong- or ovate-elliptical, 

 a curain a t e or apiculate, base oblique, the upper margin at least rounded, 

 entire or obscurely crenulate, l|-4 in. long, f-l£ in. broad; petiolules £-1 

 % rarely shorter. Flowers in spicate racemes, about £ in. in diam. ; male 

 facemes 2|-5 in. long ; pedicels 1-1£ lines. Petals recurved. Ovules 2 in 

 PP cell according to Dr. Kirk, suspended by a thick, fleshy, 'jointed ' funicle. 

 ^"P e 1-g— 2 in. diam., roundish, the pulp acid and resinous, putamen thick 

 M bony, 2-celled, with a single seed in each cell ; the radicle of the ger- 

 lunating embryo finding exit by a hole at the apex of the cell, from which 

 an °Perculum or plug falls out. ' The thick oily cotyledons are edible. 



Wozamb. Distr . Lake Nyassa aud other localities in Zambesi-land, Br. Kirk ! 



ative name ' Morula,' according to Dr. Kirk, whose detailed drawings of the ovule and 



Swbi fruit are in the Kew herbarium. Our specimens of the true S. Caffra, from Natal 



11. v[ aca ' isDer g mountains, are not very good, and the Zambesi plant may prove distinct. 



Maealisberg plant, indeed, may be different from the Natal one ; the leaves in the for- 



w being nearly white beneath, while in the Natal and Zambesi Sclorocarya they are but 



Pty paler. 



2 - S. Birrea, Hochst.; JFalp. Rep. v. 418. Leaves tufted at the 

 eilu s of the branches, 9-23-foliolate, narrow, \~l ft. long, wholly glabrous 

 i subglaucous ; leaflets opposite or subopposite, oblong- ovate- or obovate- 

 ^'Ptical, obtuse or acute, usually mucronate, base more or less rounded, 

 D J lr e, or of barren branches occasionally toothed, subcoriaceous, slightly 

 paler beneath, f-2 in. long, fr-1 in. broad ; petiolules not exceeding 2 lines 

 ™. 0, » specimens, or leaflets subsessile. Male flowers in short spikes or 

 Jicate racemes with very short pedicels. Drupes borne singly on stout 

 Ancles under 1 in. in length, globose, glabrous, "the size of a walnut." 



v OL. i. 2 o 



