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medullary rays fine and close ; pores very large, regularly distributed, filled with soft 

 cellular tissue ; colour pale yellow brown ; not durable, as it is liable to dry rot, and 

 gets worm-eaten ; used for staves, but seldom for other purposes . 



128. Strychnos spinosa, Lamarck. 



Brehmia spinosa, Harvey. 

 Kafir : um-Hlala. 



Eastern Province, Kaffraria, Natal Coast, Madagascar, West and Central Africa. 



A small tree with angular spreading spiny branches. Wood heavy, hard, compact ; 

 medullary rays fine and close ; pores small, not numerous, irregularly distributed ; 

 colour light brown. Fruit edible. 



S, Mackenii, Gerrard, mss. Kafir : um-Gulugulu, and S. Umbanda, are two 

 other species also found in the Coast region. 



CXIL BORAGINE^. 



129. Cordia caffra, Sender. 



Kafir : um-Novunovu. 



A small tree found in the Coast forests. Bark light brown, thin, smooth. Wood 

 moderately heavy and hard, compact ; medullary rays moderately large, intersected by 

 irregular concentric bands of white tissue ; pores very few, moderately large ; colour 

 light brown* 



130. Ehretia Hottentottica, Bnrchell. 



A small tree found in the Eastern Province and the Natal Coast region. 



CXV. SCROPHULARINE^E. 



131. Halleria lucida, Linnaeus. 



Sylv. Cap. p. 29. 

 Kafir : i-Minza. 



Western Province, Knysna, Eastern Province, Natal Coast forests, and Drakensberg. 



A small much-branched tree, 8-12 inches in diameter, 20-30 feet high. Bark 

 brown, very thin, fissured longitudinally. Wood heavy, hard, very strong, moderately 

 elastic, close grained, liable to check in drying ; annual rings obscure ; medullary rays 

 fine, distant ; poles small ; colour white tinged with yellow ; used by Natives for 

 assagai-handles. 



132. Anastrabe integerrima, E. Meyer. 



Kafir : isi-Pambato. 

 A small tree found in the Coast region. 



CXX V. VE RBENACE^S. 



133. Clerodendron glabrum, Sender. 



Kafir : um-Qwagwana. 



Coast forests and Drakensberg. 



A small tree. Bark yellow brown, thin, the surface pulverulent. Wood moderately 

 heavy and hard, moderately strong, elastic, close grained, compact ; medullary rays fine ;: 

 pores small, numerous, distributed irregularly or in short radial lines ; colour white 

 tinged with red-brown, 



134. Avicennia offlcinalis, Linnaeus. 



White Mangrove, 



A littoral evergreen tree found from the coasts of South Asia to that of Natal,, 

 and in Australia and New Zealand. Wood compact, fibrous. 



