Copaifera.) XLVIT. § ojesalpiniEjE (olivkr). 316 



3. C. Gorskiana, Benth. in Linn. Trans, xxv. 317. A much- 

 branched tree, sometimes of considerable size ; extremities slender, 

 pubescent at first. Leaflets unijugate, very obliquely and broadly ovate 

 or subfalcate-ovate, very obtuse or shortly usually broadly pointed, much 

 rounded at the base on the outer margin, coriaceous, glabrous, reticu- 

 late, gland-dotted, 1-2 \ in. long-, f-lj in. broad; petiole J- J in. 

 Panicles terminal and from the upper axils, branches pubescent ; brac- 

 teoles caducous. Flowers small, white, subsessile or pedicels barely 

 \ line ; buds nearly globose. Sepals about 2 lines long. Filaments 

 filiform, glabrous. Ovary glabrous, shortly stipitate ; ovules super- 

 posed. Legume flat, obliquely ovate- or obovate-rotundate, reticulate 

 the cavity not occupying the entire area of the fruit. Seed much 

 compressed, exarillate. " Cotyledons fleshy, without resinous granules" 

 (Dr. Kirk). — Gorskia conjugata, Bolle in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. 16, t. 3. 



Mozarab. Distr. Zambesi, Senna and Tette, Dr. Peters! Between Tette and 

 the coast, Dr. Kirk! 



Dr. Kirk states that the tree affords a good hard timber. 



4. C? (Colophospermum) Mopane, Kirk; Bcnth. in Linn. Trans, xxv. 

 317. A fine forest tree, the trunk often 2 ft. in diameter; extremities 

 glabrous. Leaflets unijugate, sessile, elongate-semi-ovate, inner margin 

 nearly straight to the narrowed obtuse apex, at right angles to the 

 basal margin or semicordiform, coriaceous, glandular-dotted and minutely 

 glandular-crenulate, 7-9-nerved, reticulate, 2-3§ in. long, 1-1J in. 

 broad at base ; petiole 1 in. more or less. Stipules oblong or ovate, 

 1-2 lines, deciduous. Inflorescence not seen, but probably in short 

 axillary racemes. Pedicels J-J in. Legume flat, thinly coriaceous, 

 rather obscurely reticulate, in outline obliquely semicircular or resembling 

 a somewhat lengthened nautilus from the rounded gibbosity beyond the 

 scar of the style ; 1J-2 in. long; gynophore 0, or very short. Seeds 

 reniform or oblong, testa deeply convolute-corrugate with large resinous 

 glands ; cotyledons contort-plicate, thin, not resiniferous. 



Lower Guinea. Near Bumbo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 



Mozamb. Distr. Lupata, Zambe.si, Dr. Kirk! 



Dr. Kirk's note appended to our specimens says that this is "the Iron-wood tree of the 

 country, abundant in dry clay plains, forming large monotonous shadeless forests. . . . . 

 Wood in the heart dark, heavy, and very durable, difficult to work. Leaves folding up 

 at the junction of the leaflets .... and turning down at the articulation with the 

 stem ; they are thus shadeless during the dry season at noon." The fruit falls in 

 September. 



29. ELARDWICKIA, Roxb. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 586. 



Flowers small, in paniculate spiciform racemes. Calyx-tube ex- 

 tremely short, segments 5, rotundate, subequal, broadly imbricate. 

 Petals 0. Stamens 10, occasionally a few anantherous ; filaments free ; 

 anthers rotundate, small, versatile, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 

 sessile, 1-2-ovulate ; style slender, stigma terminal, minute (in African 

 species). Legume (not seen in the following species), obovate or ob- 



