305 
E. amorp 
Donnell Smith, 3746) on the authority of Micheli. None of these 
Fruits pendulous, lanceolate, straight, or almost so— 
- amorphoides. 
Fruits erect, cultriform and often more or less curved— 
E.. texana, 
Leaflets in 4-6 pairs ; fruits very short, obliquely ovate— 
E, spinosa. 
XL.—DIAGNOSES AFRICANAE: XXX. 
1031. Monotes glaber, Sprague [Dipterocarpaceae];  affinis 
A “a 
Arbor 12-18 m, alta, ligno duro, Ramuli lenticellosi, longitudi- 
haliter rugulosi, glabri. Folia oblonga, elliptica ve ato- 
oblonga, basi rotundata vel subcordata, apice rotundata vel leviter 
Tetusa, 4~7°5 cm. lon a, 1°5-3°5 cm, lata, tenuiter coriacea, glabra, 
Supra vix nitidula, nervis lateralibus inconspicuis, venulis crebre 
conspicue reticulata, subtus opaca, nervis lateralibus elevatis venulis 
mconspicuis ; nervi laterales utrinque 6-8 ; petioli 4-10 mm. longi, 
Supra oe Inflorescentia ut videtur brevis, pauciflora ; rhachis 
Pedicelli pilosi, Fructus subglobosi, circiter 1 em. diametro, 
entelli, umbone terminali 1-1°5 mm. longo, calycis aucti seg- 
mentis anguste obovatis 2°5-2"7 cm, snes 1-1'3 cm. latis supra 
minute stellato-pubescentibus subtus puberulis. 
-HODESIA, Valleg of the Haase River, Allen, 734; “ South 
African Gold-fields,” Baines. : th 
Ceording to Allen, M. glaber is a tree, 40-60 ft. high, wit 
hard, durable wood, The native name is “ M’waru.” _ . 
Pecimens of a shrub, 4 ft. high, collected by Kirk on the 
Western slope of the Batoka Hills may possibly belong to M. glaber, 
gee 
* Scheele, in Flora, vol. xxi (1848), p. 462. 
= Gray in Bost. Journ. Nat. aes vol. i (1850), p. 174. 
illon j . vol. ix. (1870), p. 239. 
§ ex J Shoe Conirib, OS. Nat. Herb. vol. i. p. 96. 
