174 FLORA OF PORTUGUESE EAST AFRICA.  [Sess. uxx. 
species I have observed in the coast country. Pelargonium 
cupitatum and P. yrossularioides are generally to be found. 
Oxalis corniculata and O. convexula are both abundant weeds, 
Rutacka&.—Toddalia lanceolata and T. natalensis, small 
trees to be found in many places. Clausena inaequalis, 
rather a profuse-flowering small tree, flowers white. 
OCHNACEA.—Ochna atropurpurea, glabrous shrub, found in 
open forests. 
BURSERACEZ.— Balsamodendron africanum, not common, 
and found in desert situations. 
MELIACEA. —WMelia Azedarach, known as the Indian lilac, 
been introduced to this country and grown in gardens and 
about habitations. TZvrichilia emetica, small tree; oil and 
tallow produced from the seeds. Ximenia caffra, small tree, 
common in all the low coast country. Apodytes dimidiata : 
this is another tree of the lower elevations. 
ILIcINEA.—Llex capensis, generally found by edges of 
swamps and lagoons. 
CELASTRACEH.—Celastrus: there appear to be several 
species of this shrub, none of any value—Celastrus angularis, 
C. buxifolia, C. procumbens, and C. peduneularis. Eleoden- 
dron capense, B. lawrifolium, #. velutinum, and EL. ethiopicwm 
are all to be found as ordinary shrub cover. Salacia 
Kraussii, another to our list of shrubs. 
RHAMNEA.—Zizyphus jujuba and Z. mucronatu, both 
common thorny scrubby trees, found everywhere in the 
territory ; fruit edible. Berchemia discolor, shrubby tree, with 
yellow fruit, rather abundant. Colubrina asiatica, oceasion- 
ally to be found in the open waste lands. Helinus ovatus, a 
climbing shrub, found in thickets of the open grass country. 
AMPELIDEA.— Vitus capensis, V. cuneifolia, V. lanigera, V. 
Lhunberqu, V. integrifolia, V. quadrangularis, are a tew of 
the numerous species of vines | have observed. Nearly a 
hundred species are described. 
SAPINDACEH.—Cardiospermum  Halicacabum, herbaceous 
annual, rather common, classed as a climber. Schmidelia 
monophylla, common tree of the coast islands. Schmidelia 
rubifolia and S. alnifolia are also to be found. Sapindus 
capensis, a tree twenty to thirty feet high; the timber is not 
of any value. Dodonea viscosa, a small tree, flowers rather 
abundantly. 
