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in " Pflanzenveld Ost-Afrikas," C. 290, pro parte; C. Petersii 

 I Klotzsch) Engl., var. Dielsii Engl, and Diels, loc. cit.; C. trunca- 

 tion Welw.. ex Lawson in ( )liv., " Flora of Tropical Africa." ii, 

 427 (1871). 



Engler and Diels {loc. cit.) refer here to the C. elceagnoides 

 of " Mora of Tropical Africa."' but the style of the latter is 

 described as non-glandular, while in ours the glands are very 

 prominent. 



Vernacular names: Lead-wood. Lood-hout, Mozambiti 

 (Mozambique Region, teste Kirk); Munangare (in Sena, teste 

 Peters); Ironwood, Yzerhout, M'ponda-indhlovu or im-Pondo- 

 in-Dhlovu (Swazi, i.e., "elephant tusks"), true Harde-kuil 

 (teste Legat ) ; Mookarire (Modjajes). 



Barberton, 1,000 feet: a small tree, flowers yellow, Decem- 

 ber T2th, 1903. T. C. Legge 41 (herb., 1749); Barberton Dis- 

 trict, November, 1905, P. Oranje (herb., 1344) ; near Barberton, 

 August, 1904, Legal (herb., 929); between Louws Creek and 

 the Adamanda Mine, Barberton District, July 8th, 1906, Burtt- 

 Davy, 2819. Swaziland: between Buckham's and Forbes's Coal 

 Mine, June 22nd, 191 1, Burtt-Davy, 10682. Zoutpansberg Dis- 

 trict: Koodoos River, August 22nd, 1905; Grenfell (herb., 

 [Oi8) ; between Thabina and Sutherland's, circa 2,500 feet alt., 

 called " Mookarire," June 14th. 1906, Burtt-Davy, 2917. Pre- 

 toria District: Bush-veld along the Crocodile River, Roodekopjes 

 44, Burtt-Davy; Kleinfontein No. 7, March 22nd, 1907, L. Reck 

 (herb., 184); Bush-veld near the junction of the Pienaar's and 

 Aapjes Rivers, 1905, L. Reck (herb., 1082 and 1083); Pot- 

 gietersrust, Waterberg District, June 17th, 1908, Leyat (herb., 

 4550); and April 13th, 1906, Burtt-Davy, 2250. 



Wood described as "black and red" (Grenfell) ; "exactly 

 like that of the lignum-vitse " ("Flora of Tropical Africa"): 

 "extremely heavy and termite proof" {D. Forbes); " liefert 

 gutes Nutzholz " (Peters). 



An exceptionally large tree for the part of the country 

 where it grows ; trunk and main branches white (hence the Swazi 

 name"). The stipitate glands of the style appear to be peculiar 

 to this species, as far as known; if they occur also in C. primi- 

 genum of Marloth and Engler. the latter would appear to be only 

 a geographical variety of C. imberbe. The fact that C. imberbe 

 is variable, and that one variety occurs in the vicinity of rivers 

 in the dry Bush-veld of sub-tropical and tropical Transvaal, 

 gives colour to the suggestion that the species might range in one 

 or other form west to Damaraland and the northern Kalahari. 

 Extends north to the Zambesi and west to Angola. 



( 'ombrctum porphyrolepis Engl, and Diels. " Monogr. Afr. 

 P f 1 . , " iii, 63 (1899). — Shrub or small tree with divaricate 

 branches. Eastern Bush-veld of the Transvaal and Swaziland: 

 Barberton District: Queen's River Valley, Barberton, 2,300 feet, 

 flower- September. 1889. fruit January, 1890. Galpin, 560, 501, 

 756; Kaap Valley, near Barberton, 2,100-2.900 feet, flowering 



