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planted at least a hundred years ago. The aril, which is red, is used for making a drink, said to be 
very nourishing, and to have saved the people in the time of famine (J. Kirk). 
The specimens are in fruit only, but the persistent pedicels show that the inflo- 
rescence was the same as that of C. hymeneifolia, the foliage and pods are precisely the 
same, and the doubt occurs whether the difference in the aril is constant, and whether 
the species are really distinet? If they are identical, how is their coexistence in two 
such distant countries to be explained? Can the seeds have been carried out to Cuba 
by the negro slaves ? The precise station in Cuba is not given by Ramon de la Sagra ; 
that given by Wright is near a town or settlement. | 
3. C. GorsKIANA. Foliolis unijugis late faleato-ovatis obtusissimis vel vix acuminatis 
3—4-nerviis penniveniis reticulatis coriaceis, floribus subsessilibus, bracteolis minutis 
caducissimis, legumine plano tenui reticulato, seminibus exarillatis, cotyledonibus 
planis. 
Gorskia conjugata, Bolle, in Peters, Mossamb. Bot. i. 16, f. 3. 
Legumen stipitatum, planum, oblique ovato-orbiculatum, reticulato-venosum, ad 14 poll. longum, 1 poll. 
latum, juxta styli vestigium breviter angusteque coriaceo-alatum. Semen compressum, ovali-orbicu- 
latum, hilo laterali; cotyledones carnosulæ, planæ, radicula juxta hilum recta, intra cotyledonum 
emaginaturam retracta. 
Hab. East tropical Africa. Near Sena and Tetté (Peters) ; near Tetté, a tree of considerable size, sup- 
plying good timber (Kirk). 
4. C. GursovgTIANA. Foliolis unijugis obovato-falcatis obtuse acuminatis 3—5-nerviis 
penniveniis reticulatis coriaceis, floribus sessilibus, bracteolis persistentibus calycis 
quartam partem attingentibus, legumine . ...: 
Guibourtia copallifera, Benn. in Journ. Linn. Soc. i. 150. 
Flores quam in cæteris speciebus majores. | 
Hab. West tropical Africa. Near Goderich and Lumley in Sierra Leone, known as the Kobo-tree 
(W. K. Daniell). 
5?. C.? (COLOPHOSPERMUM) MOPANE, Kirk, sp.n. (Plate XLIII. A.). Foliolis uni- 
jugis faleato-semiovatis obtusis v. obtuse acuminatis 7-9-nerviis reticulatis, (floribus 
pedicellatis ?) legumine plano tenuiter coriaceo obscure reticulato, seminibus ex- 
arillatis vesiculis resiniferis farctis, cotyledonibus corrugatis. 
Arbor speciosa, habitu Bauhiniarum, ligno præstantissimo, resina sanguinea (Kirk et Welwitsch), tota 
glaberrima. Folia fere Hardwickie binate ; foliola valde obliqua, fere semicordata, 1323 poll. longa, 
3-1 poll. lata, arete sessilia, ad apicem petioli 4-3-pollicaris en a terminal, 
Flores desunt. Legumina ad axillas racemosa, rhachi foliis sæpius breviore, pedicellis 1-3 lin. longis. 
Legumen vix stipitatum, oblique obovato-falcatum, 11-2 poll. longum, fere pollicem latum, stylo 
laterali, sutura superiore brevi angusta, inferiore angustissime I-alata. augen magnum, reniforme, 
testa tenui, hilo laterali ; cotyledones insigniter corrugate, vesiculis — semiimmersis conspersæ. 
Hab. Tropical Africa. Shiramba and Lupata Mountains on the Zambesi (Kirk) ; forming large forests 
in the rocky hills round the base of the Serra da Xella, near gant in Angola (Welwitsch). Col- 
lected by both travellers in 1860, but first received from Dr. Kirk. 
