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upper ee the upper ones sometimes acute at the apex. Cymes 
solitary or 2 in each axil, one above the other, the upper or solitary 
ones simple, 3- = flowered, or racemosely branched up to 12-flowered, 
the lower cymes 1-3- flowered. Petals oblanceolate when flattened 
out to their full length, about 4 in. long, crumpled tip hardly | lin. 
long, Filaments 1k in. long. Ovary very densely covered with 
whitish hairs. Drape eylindric-clavate, 24-3 in. long, with a slignt 
ri base. 
Portueurese East Arrica. Madanda forest, Dawe, 435. 
Economic VaLuE or THE TWO New SPECIES. 
Fruits of Balanites Maughamii have been examined recently at 
the Imperial Institute, and the results obtained for that species will 
no doubt apply also to B Dawe?, which is very closely allied (Bull. 
Imp. Inst. 1912, vol. x. pp. 548-9 9). 
According to the report, it seems unlikely that the fruits of B. 
Maughamii can be of economic value for export, owing to the 
difficulty, first, of removing the external sugary pulp, and then of 
extracting the kernel from the thick fibrous shell in which it is 
enclosed. 
The sample was too small to enable the percentage of oil in the 
kernels to be determined. e specimen of oil was clear, yellow 
and liquid, possessing no marked smell or taste. The constants of 
the oil are as follows: 
aren gravity 0: 916; saponification value 198°5; iodine 
The oil sonia that of B. aegyptiaca in appearance and general 
character, and if produced on a commercial scale it would probably 
realise the current price of refined cotton-seed oil, but it is thought, 
that the difficulties — above would prevent its — on 
a large scale. 
It may needethslaee be of considerable importance for local 
consumption. detailed account of the uses of B. aegyptiaca is 
given in Kew Bull., Add. Ser. vol. ix. pp. 138-139. Much of the 
information there given will no doubt apply also to B. Maughamit. 
SpecierumM Novarum Descripriongs. 
Balanites ee Sprague ; affnis B. Roxburghii, Planch., et 
B. triflorae, Van Tiegh. ; ab illa ramulis floriferis foliatis hornotinis 
beue evolutis e ramis annotinis inermibus vel subinermibus ortis ; ab 
hac petalis lanceolatis multo latioribus villosioribus, antheris duplo 
longioribus ; ab ambabus ramis annotinis fusco-maculatis, foliolis 
majoribus basi inaequialte rotundatis distinguitur. 
Arbor usque ad 15 m. alta, trunco irregulari usque ad 0°5 m 
diametro. Rami alteri steriles, dee alteri ae inermes 
vel subinermes. Rami steriles anfractuosi, anno primo virides, 
pubescentes, spinas bifurcatas — simplices) supra-axillares 
gerentes, anno secundo plus minusve glabrescentes, leviter 
maculati, ramulos abbreviatos foliatos saepius ad pulvinos reductos 
interdum usque ad 2°5 em. longos gerentes, anno tertio nitiduli, 
