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tusis mee bilocularibus longitudinaliter dehiscentibus, dorso prope basin 
filamento Ovarium s essile, liberum, parvulum, medio disci insidens, 
4-lobum, lables 4-loculare ; styli 4, brevissimi, apice liberi: stigmata mi- 
_nuta. ula solitaria, minutissima (v. interdum geminata Ps angulo centrali 
affixa. Fructus exsuccus, epicarpio iva. endocarpio coriaceo-fibr roso, 0 
longus, tetragonus, carpellis 4 monospermis utrinque Se —— 
emum ab apice 
phori quadrifidi pendulis. Semina exalbuminosa, testa pa viavke cotyle. 
dones carnose, complanate, lineari-oblonge, basi emarginate, radicula brevi 
supera 4—6- io longiores.—Arbor meadionren: glabra. olia alterna, tmpari- 
pinnata, multifoliolata, ad apices ramulorum sepius conferta, exstipulata, 
lores cymosim paniculati, paniculis foreesienmit axillaribus multifloris. 
K. acuminata, Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 
Has. Zambesi, common from Batoka to a ve Dr. J. Kirk. Flowering 
in December 
Ramuli ‘erotie: ae assiusculi, laeves, glabri. Folia 13— 19-foliolata, — 
—l ped. 
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basi ineequalibus s semicordatis vel margine superiore rotundatis, serrulatis 
epunctatis. Pedunculi recti, rigidi, teretiusculi, glabri, 2-6 poll. longi, apicem 
versus subtrichotome divisi, pedunculis secundariis divergentibus adscenden- 
tibusque, pedicellis pilosulis glabratisve oe brevioribus v. % uilongis. 
Calyx \obis ovato-deltoideis obtusis v. obtusiusculis. Petala circiter 2 ‘iin. 
thera fere duplo longiora. Anthere lanceolato-elliptice v. ovato-oblonge, 
mutice. Discus crassiusculus, subcorrugatus, tetragonus, glaber. Ovarium 
minutum, 4-lobum, lobis sapelis alternis. Fructus 6—8 lin. longus, 3 lin. 
latus. Cocei maturitate facile secedentes, oblongi, triquetri, apice processus 
recurvato carpophori affixi. 
I have allowed this plant to be printed off in the * Tropical African Flora’ 
under Simarubee, but I admit that its affinity with the more characte 
venera of this Order i is not very marked, nor have I detected the bitterness 
3) 
80 common amongst Simarubee the minuteness of the ovary in the 
specimens examined, I think the flowers may p lyga s 
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pistillate flowers may enable me to settle the affinity of the plant. It may 
prove a Burseracea. If in Boszwellia the pyrenes were imbedded in the i 
valves of the pericarp, the structure of the fruit would be very similar to that 
of Kirkia 
The penis commemorates the important services rendered to botany by 
Dr. John Kirk, net accomplished naturalist of the Livingstone-Zambesi Ex- 
ER. 
Fi a ae mde flower. 2. Vertical section of ~— ont — and stamens removed. 
3. Sta ary, one cell laid open. 5. Fruit, . Same enlarged, show- 
ing sesaaicons at ae cocci to the carpophore. as sbertiy 0. 
