Sclerocarya. } TEREBINTACE (Sond.) 525 
4, ovate-oblong, obtuse, reflexed, patent, three times longer than the 
calyx, imbricate in wstivation, Male flowers with 12-1 5 stamens, in- 
serted round a fleshy, depressed, entire disc ; filaments elongate ; an- 
thers introrse, oblong, bilocular. Hermaphrodite flowers, with some 
sterile and anantherous stamens amongst the fertile. Ovary sub- 
globose, 2-3-locular. Styles 2~3, distant, short, thick. Stigmas peltate. 
Drupe sub-fleshy, with a hard, woody nucleus, 2~3 -celled, cells 1-seeded 
(1-2 abortive). Seed pendulous, without albumen. Cotyledons thick, 
plano-convex. Hochst. Flora, Bot. Zeitz. t. 27.2. Besond. Beil, pl. 
Spondias spec. Richard. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves petiolate, exstipulate, imparipinnate ; leaflets obovate, 
petiolulate, 6-10-jugate, glabrous. —Name from oxAnpos, hard, and xapva, the 
walnut, 
1. 8. caffra (Sond. Linn, xxiii. 1. p. 26); glabrous ; petiole trigo- 
nous ; leaflets 5—13 long-petiolulate, ovate or elliptic, shortly cuspidate, 
» mucronate, entire or paucidentate, pale below ; flowers dicecious ; male 
spikes terminal, abbreviate ; sepals and petals 4; drupe sub-orbicular, 
2~3-celled. ; ; — ; 
Has. North side of the Macalisberg, Burke, Zeyh. n. 1857. Port Natal, Guein- 
zius, Drege, n. 4063. Fl. Aug.; fruit, Dec. (Herb. Hook., T.C.D., Sond.) 
Leaves aggregate at the ends of the branches, alternate, }—1 foot long ; leaflets 
1}-2 inches long, 12-15 lines wide, with a short, often oblique acumen, at base acute, 
penninerved, shining above, very pale beneath. Male spikes 2-4, shortly peduncu- 
late, glabrous, 1-2 inches long. Flowers short-stalked, bracteolate, the dried 
stalk red. Stamens equalling the petals. pe of the size of a small walnut, 
sub-orbicular. Perfect seeds are wanting.—Nearly allied to S. Birrea, Hochst. 
(Spondias Birrea, Rich. fl. Seneg. t. 41.) 
VII. HARPEPHYLLUM, Bernhardi. 
icecious. Male: calyx 4-5-cleft, segments obtuse. Petals 
4 Elgg than the ie cea in estivation. Stamens 8 
or g, as well as the petals inserted below the margin of the crenate disc, 
Filaments shortly subulate ; anthers ovate, 2-celled. Rudimentary pis- 
tillum 4-lobed. Female-flowers unknown. Fruit an obovate, smooth, 
sub-fleshy drupe, with a bony, 2-celled putamen. Séeds... Bernh, 
in Krauss. Beytr. p. 47- 
. Leaves aggregate at the top of the branches, stalked, alternate, 
oat seorrasts + leaflets soils falcate-lanceolate, entire, unequal sided, the terminal 
oa sided. Male flowers in a terminal panicle.—Name from aprn, a sickle, and 
jonir, a leaf: alluding to the falcate leaflets. 
1. H. caffrum (Bernh.) Spondias? falcata, Meisn. 
Has. Woods at Howisonspoort, near Grahamstad, Zeyh. n. 2028 ; in distr. Uiten- 
have, Ecklon, Brehm, Caffraria, Krauss. Drege, 8265. Apr.—May. ; fruct, mat, 
Feb,-Mar. (Herb. T.C.D., Lehm., Sond.) _ : ; 
‘A tree, 20-30 feet high, quite resembling Eckebergia capensis, Branchlets 
odose after the leaves have fallen. Leaves 6-10 inches long. Petiole furrowed 
above, 1-2 inches long. Leaflets 5~7-jugate, patent, 2-2} inches long, 6-9 lines 
ab de, lanceolate-acuminate, acute at base, the upper margin convex-arcuate, the 
i wer straight or concave-arcuate ; middie nerve prominent, primary veins picu- 
‘oO on the upper surface. Male panicle terminal, half the length of the leaves. 
ous all, whitish or yellowish, on ve Sarat pedicels, Drupe about an inch 
Jong, 6 lies broad.—The tree is called by the inhabitants ““Eschenhout;” the edible 
fruit, “Zuurebesges.” . 
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