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A tree growing to 25 ft. high; flowers white ; fruit green. 
It is called * Mopani ” by the natives. 
Copaifera coleosperma, Benth. 
Okavango Valley, about 3,000 ft., Lugard, 244. 
fine spreading tree, growing to 40 ft. high; pod green, 
containing one scarlet seed. Found away from the river in dry 
sandy country. The natives boil the seeds, from which they get 
a soup. 
Dichrostachys arborea, V. EF. Br. Aréor 6 m. alta, spinosa. 
Folia 1°8-5°6 em. longa; pinnae 10-15-jugae, 6-14 mm. longae ; 
foliolae 12-28-jugae, minutae, 0°7-1°5 mm. longae. Pedunculi 
1*5-2°5 mm. longi. /ilamenta florum inferiorum ad 10 mm. longa. 
A tree growing to 20 ft. high. Branchlets and spines horizontally 
spreading, at first puberulous, becoming glabrous, grey. Leaves 
bipinnate, #-2} in. long, apparently less than 14 in. broad when 
ei expanded, pubescent except on the upper surface of the 
leaflets ; pinnae in 10-15 pairs, 3-7 lin. long, with a stalked gland 
between the basal pair; leaflets in 12-28 pairs, minute, 4} lin. 
long, oblong-linear, obtuse. Spikes 14-2 in. long, cylindric, obtuse, 
with pubescent peduncles #—11 in. long. Lower or sterile flowers 
purple ; calyx } lin. long, cupular, minutely 5-toothed, pubescent ; 
corolla glabrous, with a tube 4 lin. long and five ovate acute lobes 
# lin. long, } lin. broad ; staminal filaments 4-5 lin. long. Upper 
or fertile flowers yellow ; calyx 3 lin. long, campanulate, 5-toothed, 
pubescent ; corolla glabrous, with a tube 3-3 lin. long and five 
oblong acute lobes 4-4 lin. long, } lin. broad ; ovary densely pub- 
escent. Legume not seen. 
Totin, near Lake Ngami, Lugard, 27. 
Dichrostachys Lugardae, N. &. Br. Frutex ad 3 m. altus, 
spinosus. Folia 5-8°7 cm. longa; pinnae 6-11-jugae, 1°6-3 cm. 
longae ;_ foliola 20-36-juga, 2°5-3°5 mm. longa. Pedunculi 
3°7-5°6 cm. longi. Filamenta florum inferiorum ad 1:4 cm. longa. 
A thorny bush 8-10 ft. high, with a glabrous greyish-brown 
rk. Leaves bipinnate, pubescent except on the upper surface of 
the leaflets, 2-3) in. long, 13-2} in. broad when fully expanded ; 
pinnae in- 6-11 ven 8-15 lin. long, spreading, with a long-stalked 
gland between the basal pair; leaflets in 20-36 pairs, 1}—-1# lin. 
long, linear, subfaleate, acute. Spikes 1-2 in. long, cylindric, 
obtuse, with pubescent peduncles 14-21 in. long. Lower or sterile 
flowers purple ; calyx + lin. long, cupular, minutely 5-toothed, 
pubescent ; corolla glabrous, with a tube 4-4 lin. long and five 
oblong-ovate acute lobes 4-3 lin. long, 4-2 lin. broad ; staminal 
filaments 6-7 lin. long. Upper or fertile flowers yellow ; calyx 4 lin. 
long, campanulate, 5-toothed, pubescent ; corolla glabrous, with a 
tube 3-3 lin. long and five ovate-oblong acute lobes } lin. long, 
4 lin, 3; ovary densely pubescent. Legume (according to 4 
drawi eae Lugard) flat, curled, about 3} in. long and } in. 
} . n. 
pong a and Kalahari, 3,000-3,500 ft., Lugard, 42; Mrs. 
oe see Willd. 
otin, near Lake N i : i . 
Mrs. Lagan & gami, Lugard, 28; Kwebe Hills, 3,300 ft 
tree growing to 15 ft. in height ; flowers golden yellow. 
