24 CXXIlIIc. MORACE& (Rendle). [Cardiogyne. 
3. CARDIOGYNE, Bureau in DC. Prodr. xvii. 232. 
Flowers dicecious. Male: Calyx deeply divided into 4 fleshy 
imbricate segments. Stamens 4; filaments free, inflexed in the bud. 
Female: Calyx obpyramidal by compression, 4-lobed ; lobes very 
thick and blunt, imbricate. Ovary enclosed within the calyx, ellip- 
soidal; ovule solitary, pendulous from the apex of the cell; style 
terminal, simple, filiform, protruding above the calyx as a long 
subulate papillose stigma. Fruit included in the persistent calyx ; 
pericarp crustaceous. Seed witha papery testa ; endosperm absent ; 
embryo bent double ; cotyledons large, folded and twisted, envelop- 
ing the ascending radicle-—A shrub or sometimes climbing, spiny. 
Leaves petioled, alternate, entire. Stipules small, caducous. Flowers 
in small dense axillary spherical heads. Fruiting head succulent when 
fresh, becoming woody when dry.—Milicia, Sim, For. Fl. Port. E. 
Afr. 97, partly. 
Species one, in Tropical and South Africa. 
1. C. africana, Bureau, l.c. 233. Generally a bush about 7 ft. high, 
sometimes a climbing shrub with thick woody stems; branches 
when young thickly covered with red-brown spreading hairs ; branch- 
lets horizontally spreading, ending in a spine and bearing leaves and 
short branch spines. Leaves subcoriaceous, elliptic, obtuse or 
obsoletely emarginate, base obtuse to rounded, margin entire, 14-34 
in. long, 10-15 lin. wide, dark green above, greyish-yellow-green 
below except on the nerves and veins; lateral nerves 6-8 on each 
side, thin, sunk, somewhat ascending ; petiole }-3in. long. Flower- 
heads solitary or geminate, rarely ternate, to about } in. in diam. ; 
peduncles 2-3 lin. long; bracts short, obovate or broadly oblong, 
slightly thickened at the obtuse apex, with a short whitish indu- 
mentum. Calyx similarly tomentulose, thick especially above and 
very blunt, in the male flowers broadly obovate, in the female some- 
what narrower. Fruiting heads 8-9 lin. in diam., edible, “the size of a 
walnut, of a yellowish-cream colour with seeds imbedded in an agtee- 
able pulp” (Kirk), woody when dry.—Baill. Hist. Nat. Pl. Madag. t. 
294; Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 2473; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 161 and Monogr. 
Morac. Afr. 5. Cudranea sp., Kirk in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 229. 
Milicia spinosa, Sim, For. Fl. Port. E. Afr. 98, t. 74, B. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar: Boivin, Hildebrandt, 1290; near Tschukuani, 
Stuhlmann, 1003, 1004. German East Africa: Kilwa, Kirk! Amboni, Holst, 
2724! Usambara, Holst, 2626; Dar-es-Salaam, Stuhlmann, 7772; Rovuma 
River, Kirk! Portuguese East Africa: Beira, Schlechter; Senna, Kirk! 
Peters ; Shupanga and Tette, Kirk! Morambala Marsh, Scott! British Central 
Africa : Nyasaland ; Elephant Marsh, Kirk! Chiromo, Scott Elliot, 8811! 
The inner bark and white wood abound in a yellowish milky juice; the 
heart wood is of different shades of.red, very heavy and full of pores, and as 
