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GERANIACEAE, 
Monsonia biflora, DC. var. 
Kwebe Hills, 3,300 ft., Lugard, 117; Mrs. Lugard, 69. 
Dwarf perennial, 6 in. high ; flowers white. 
Monsonia senegalensis, Guill. § Per. 
Kwebe Hills, 3,300 ft., Lugard, 110, 153; Mrs. Lugard, 173. 
ding annual; flowers pink, with darker veins (Mrs, 
A sprea 
Lugard), purple (Lugard). 
BURSERACEAR. 
Commiphora kwebensis, NV. &. Br. Frutex vel arbuscula inermis ; 
ramuli minute cinereo-velutini. Fo/ia trifoliolata vel imparipinnata, 
2-juga, petiolo 0-6-5 cm. longo ; foliola lateralia elliptica vel elliptico- 
oblonga, utrinque obtusissima, terminalia basi longe et acute 
cuneata, crenato-serratula, supra tenuissime et minutissime pubes- 
centia, subtus in nervis minute pubescentia. lores subfasciculati, 
parvi; pedunculi 1-3-flori. Drupa ellipsoidea, 
_A spineless much branched shrub or small tree, 4-15 ft. high, 
dioecious. Branches widely divergent, minutely grey-velvety, 
becoming glabrous, with a dark brown bark. Leaves trifoliolate or 
pinnately 5-foliolate, when very young densely pubescent with 
minute hairs or softly villous with longer hairs on the petiole and 
both surfaces, when adult with a minute pubescence on the petioles 
and veins of the under surface and thinly scattered on the upper sur- 
face; petiole of adult leaves (up to the terminal leaflet) }-2 in. long ; 
lateral leaflets J-1 in. long, 2-7 lin, broad, elliptic or elliptic- 
oblong, very obtuse at both ends, unequal-sided at the base, sessile ; 
terminal leaflet elliptic-obovate, obtuse, cuneately narrowed from a 
little below the middle to a very acute base, all finely crenate- 
serrulate, thin. JJale flowers usually subfasciculate, with 1-3- 
flowered pubescent or shortly villous peduncles 1-3 lin. long, or 
occasionally one or more of the peduncles up to 8-10 lin, long; 
bracts 3-12 lin. long, filiform, pubescent ; pedicels 1-23 lin. long, 
pubescent or shortly villous ; calyx 2 lin. long, campanulate, 
tapering to the base, 4—5-lobed to nearly half way down, pubescent ; 
lobes deltoid-ovate, subacute, erect ; petals 4, perigynous, about 
13 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, oblong obtuse, elabrous, greenish-yellow ; 
stamens 8, perigynous, inserted with the petals at the margin of the 
disk which lines the calyx-tube almost to its top, unequal, the 4 
longer alternating with the petals ; ovary none. Jemale flowers 
solitary, pedicels 1-1} lin. long ; calyx 1! lin. long, campanulate, 
_ 2-lobed, otherwise as in the male Dru ipsoi i 
ded cas 1 : . pe ellipsoid, 7 (in the 
mee state, 5) lin. long, 6 (in the dried state, 4) lin, in diam., bright 
se Bart ee on around the bony compressed endocarp. 
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