161 
Baines! Queque, Rogers 5845 ; Sebakwe, about 1350 m., large 
ari fl. Sep. 1904, Hyles 174! Victoria, Monro 456! 468! 526! 
Native Names : mSaassa (Rand, Eyles), mChenga or mNenga 
(Speke and Grant), mChenga (Purves 
According to Speke and Grant the bark is made into quilts, 
cloths, band-boxes, huge grain-stores, mats, ro erat for camp 
huts, etc., and a red juice exudes on cutting the 
also states that a cloth is made from the inner toe ag ‘According 
to Rand the inner bark is used by the natives for twine or rope; 
they prepare it very quickly and readily by rubbing between the 
palms of the hands. The tree is very plentiful, and yields large 
quantities of a gum deep red in colour and very rich in tannin; it 
should be of some commercial value (Rand). 
50. B. Bragaei Harms in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 30: 82 (1901). 
Portucugrse East Arrica: Mogambique Territory; Beira, 
Braga 152 (type)! . 
Ruopesta: 8. Rhodesia; Melsetter Distr., about 200 m., 
fl. Sep. 1907, a smallish tree, stamens white, Swynnerton 657 ! 
Nyahodi River at 1650 m., a small tree, Swynnerton 1027 ! 
“One of the commonest S. Rhodesian trees; fairly plentiful 
in the neighbourhood of Chirinda and about Chikore and groves 
of it are common in the hills all along the Nyahodi and Haroni 
Rivers, and cover the lower slopes of the Chimanimani 
foothills, while toward the summit one finds a few scattered 
peas Sone fine in sheltered Sas even at 7000 ft.” 
(Swynn 
tebe Naita : mooTsatsa (Swynnerton). 
The bark is largely used by the natives as a substitute for 
rope and, beaten soft, for bags; formerly employed in the manu- 
facture of clothes and blankets. It is prized on account of being 
red in colour and comparatively soft and pliable. pial 
51. Brachystegia Gairdnerae Hutch. et B. Davy, sp. n 
Arbor ; ramuli annotini gracillimi, 1-5 mm, crassi, glabri, 
lenticellati, hornotini glabri. Alabastra minuta, globosa, squamis 
ciliatis. Folia 4-5-5 cm. longa; rhachis Baber: foliola 2-juga, 
elliptica vel oblongo-elliptica, apice late et inaequaliter emargi- 
nata, basi unilateraliter rotundata, 2-3 cm. lata, chartaceo- 
glabra, reticulata ; nervi laterales ascendentes, utrinque prominuli ; 
stipulae déuidasé, lineari-lanceolatae, circiter mm. lo 
glabrae ; stipelae conspicuae, parce ciliatae. Inflorescentia spici- 
formis, circiter 3 cm. longa; axis glaber; bracteae lineares, 
3 mm. longae, superne ciliatae ; pedicelli graciles, parce pube- 
scentes, 5 mm. longi. Bracieolae obovato-oblongae, 7 mm. 
longae, 3:5 mm. latae, parce pubescentes. Se nulla. Zubus 
eee circiter 2 mm. longus. Ovariwm stipitatum, parce 
sii ODESLA : N.W. Rhodesia; Sesheke District, Miss A. E. 
Gairdner 220 
x 19837 c 
