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tively, longitudinally 5-grooved in the upper part; epicarp 
crustaceous ; mesocarp fibrous and spongy ; endocarp woody, 14-2 
lin. thick. Seed-coat buff-coloured. Embryo oblong-ellipsoid, about 
1 in. long, strongly grooved. 
Portucesr East Arrica. Lebombo Mountains, and by the 
Umbeluzi River, Maugham. By the Rovuma River, Kirk. 
Madanda Forest, Dawe, 428. 
According to Mr. Dawe, B. Maughamii is known in the Madanda 
v 
The tree figured by Sim, For. FJ. Port. E, Afr. t. 56, as 
from the descriptions of the genus Trachylobium and of T. Horne- 
i The floral 
p r. vol. ii, p. 311, The 
characters given by Sim, and the statement that the fruit is 1-2- 
known. 
state): Petioles 3-14 in. long ; leaflets broadly ovate, apiculate 
from a rounded, truncate or retuse apex, rounded at the base, the 
base of the blade on the upper side being about 14 lin. above the base 
on the lower side, 24-3 in. long, 2-24 in. broad, thinly Herbaceous, 
distinctly different in colour on the upper and lower surfaces, 
uberulous on the upper, densely greenish-white-pubescent on the 
_ lower ; stipules narrowly triangular, 1-14 lin. long, tomentellous. 
Flower-bearing shoots 1-6 in. long, bearing 6 leaves or fewer, densely 
