Bridelia,] EUPiiOiiBiACE^ (Hutchinson). 381 



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Eastern Region : Portuguese East Africa ; Inyamasau, ScJdechter, 12065 ! 



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This species has also been collected by E-ogers (4551) at Beira^ Port. E. Africa, 

 which is beyond the area of the Flora Capensis, 



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5. B. ferruginea (Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 511); a shinib or 



small tree, 10-15 ft. high ; branchlets ferruginous-pubescent ; leaves 

 elliptic and oblong-elliptic, very shortly acuminate, rounded at the 

 base, 2-4 in. long, 1-2^ in. broad, coriaceous, glabrous or almost 

 so above, pubescent on the nerves and veins below ; lateral nerves 

 extending to the margin but often branching, slightly oblique, 7-9 

 on each side; tertiary nerves wavy, somewhat lax; petiole 1^-3 lin. 

 long, tomentose ; stipules lanceolate, acute, about 3 lin. long, 

 pubescent ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, pubescent ; male flowers : sepals 

 ovate-lanceolate, subacute and very slightly hooded at the apex, 

 pubescent outside with long adpressed hairs ; petals small, obovate, 

 toothed ; disc thick, wrinkled ; rudimentary ovary subentire ; 

 female flowers : sepals as in the male ; petals lanceolate, acute ; 

 disc bottle-shaped^ enclosing the ovary, lobed, long-pubescent out- 

 side ; ovary -ovuid ; styles 2, bipartite: fruit 1-celIed, ovoid-oblong, 

 3-4 lin. long, 2^ lin. in diam. Hiern in Cat, Afr. PL Welw, i. 954, 

 €xcL var, ; Gelmn. in Enyh JaJirb, xli. BeibL 95, 39; Hutchinson 

 in Djjer, FL Trop, Afr, vi. i. 619. .B. micranthay var, ferruginea, 

 MillL Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 498; De Wild. & Durand in BidL 



Herh. Boiss., 2"*« ser. i. 46; De Wild. Miss. K Laurent, 128, and 



Etudes FL Bas- et Moyen-Congo, ii. 276. B, speciosa, var. Tcourou- 

 senstSy Beille in Bull. Soc. BoL Fr. Iv, Mem, viii. 68. Gentilia 



CJievalicri, Beille, Le. 71. 



Eastern Eegion: Delagoa Bay, Schlechter ! 

 Widely spread in Tropical Africa. 



6. B. micrantha (Baill. Adansonia, iii. 164); a tree, 20-40 ft. 

 high ; branchlets pubescent when young, soon becoming quite 

 labrous, with conspicuous scattered lentieels ; leaves elliptic, 

 oblong-elliptic or obovate, shortly acuminate and subacute or 

 obtuse at the apex, slightly cuneate or rounded at the base, 2-7 

 in, long, 1-3 in. broad, slightly coriaceous, often shining and 

 glabrous above, glabrous or minutely puberulous below; lateral 

 nerves ascending, slightly oblique^, 8-16 on each side, continued to 

 the margin and forming a marginal nerve, prominent below ; 



tertiary nerves more or less inconspicuous ; petiole stout, 2-5 

 lin. long, wrinkled, densely pubescent or puberulous; stipules 

 caducous; bracts pubescent; male flowers shortly stalked; sepals 

 triangular, subsessile, J lin. long, pubescent towards the base; 

 petals small, obovate-cuneate, trilobed or dentate ; disc thick and 

 fleshy ; rudimentary ovary truncate or trifid, very short ; female 

 flowers sessile ; sepals as in the male ; petals ovate, entire ; disc 

 almost enclosing the ovary, ciliate, densely pilose outside; ovary 

 ovoid, glabrous; styles 2, 2-lobed, glabrous; fruits ovoid or 



