Copaifera. | XLVIT. § CHSALPINIEH (OLIVER). 315 
3. C. Gorskiana, Benth. in Linn. Trans. xxv. 317. A much- 
branched tree, sometimes of considerable size; extremities slender, 
pubescent at first. Leatlets unijugate, very obliquely and broadly ovate 
or subfalcate-ovate, very obtuse or shortly usually broadly pointed, much 
rounded at the base on the outer margin, coriaceous, glabrous, reticu- 
late, gland-dotted, 1-24 in. long, 3-1} in. broad; petiole 4-4 in. 
Panicles terminal and from the upper axils, branches pubescent; brac- 
teoles caducous. Flowers small, white, subsessile or pedicels barely 
% line; buds nearly globose. Sepals about 2 lines long. Filaments 
filiform, glabrous. Ovary glabrous, shortly stipitate; ovules super- 
posed. Legume flat, obliquely ovate- or obovate-rotundate, reticulate, 
the cavity not occupying the entire area of the fruit. Seed much 
compressed, exarillate. ‘‘ Cotyledons fleshy, without resinous granules” 
(Dr. Kirk).—Gorskia conjugata, Bolle in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 16, t. 3. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi, Senna and Tette, Dr. Peters! Between Tette and 
the coast, Dr. Kirk! 
Dr. Kirk states that the tree affords a good hard timber, 
4. ©? (Colophospermum) Mopane, Kirk ; Benth. in Linn. Trans. xxv. 
317. A fine forest tree, the trunk often 2 ft. in diameter; extremities 
glabrous. Leaflets unijugate, sessile, elongate-semi-ovate, inner margin 
nearly straight to the narrowed obtuse apex, at right angles to the 
basal margin or semicordiform, coriaceous, glandular-dotted and minutely 
glandular-crenulate, 7—9-nerved, reticulate, 2-3} in. long, 1-14 in. 
broad at base; petiole 1 in. more or less. Stipules oblong or ovate, 
1—2 lines, deciduous. Inflorescence not seen, but probably in short 
axillary racemes. Pedicels }-} in. Legume flat, thinly coriaceous, 
rather obscurely reticulate, in outline obliquely semicircular or resembling 
a somewhat lengthened nautilus from the rounded gibbosity beyond the 
scar of the style; 14-2 in. long; gynophore 0, or very short. Seeds 
reniform or oblong, testa deeply convolute-corrugate with large resinous 
glands ; cotyledons contort-plicate, thin, not resiniferous. 
Lower Guinea. Near Bumbo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
Mozamb. Distr. Lupata, Zambesi, Dr. Kirk! 
Dr. Kirk’s note appended to our specimens says that this is “the Iron-wood tree of the 
country, abundant in dry clay plains, forming large monotonous shadeless forests. . . . . 
Wood in the heart dark, heavy, and very durable, difficult to work. Leaves folding up 
at the junction of the leafl-ts . . . . and turning down at the articulation with the 
stem; they are thus shadeless during the dry season at noon.” The fruit falls in 
September. 
29. HARDWICKIA, Roxb.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 586. 
Flowers small, in paniculate spiciform racemes. Calyx-tube ex- 
tremely short, segments 5, rotundate, subequal, broadly imbricate. 
Petals 0. Stamens 10, occasionally a few anantherous; filaments free ; 
anthers rotundate, small, versatile, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 
sessile, 1-2-ovulate ; style slender, stigma terminal, minute (in African 
species). Legume (not seen in the following species), obovate or ob- 
