﻿22 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



47496 to 47503. 



From Entebbe, Uganda. Presented by the chief forestry officer, Forestry 

 Department. Received April 29, 1919. 



47496. Acacia sp. Mimosacese. 



An ornamental shrub or tree, with handsome foliage and cylindrical 

 spikes or globular heads of yellow flowers. 



47497. Chlorophora excelsa (Welw.) Benth. and Hook. Moracese. 

 This is a valuable timber tree, native throughout most of tropical 



Africa. The wood is whitish, gradually changing to pale bay, and it is 

 durable and easily worked. The tree often reaches a height of 130 feet, 

 with a diameter of 10 feet, the trunk bare of branches for 60 feet. The 

 thin, 'leathery, elliptic leaves are 6 to 7 inches long. The flowers, borne 

 in dense spikes, are of two kinds: The staminate having long exserted 

 white stamens, while the pistillate are inconspicuous. The slightly fleshy 

 fruits are greenish yellow. (Adapted from Prain, Flora of Tropical 

 Africa, vol. 6, pt. 2, p. 22.) 



47498. Erythrina excelsa Baker. Fabacese. 



A tree, native to upper Guinea, growing to a height of 60 feet. It has 

 glabrous branches which are armed with numerous sharp, straight, short 

 prickles. The leaves are trifoliolate, the broadly ovate central leaflet 

 being 9 inches long. The bright-scarlet flowers are borne in dense racemes 

 about 6 inches long. (Adapted from Oliver, Flora of Tropical Africa, vol. 

 2, p. 183.) 



47499. Markhamia platycalyx (Baker) Sprague. Bignoniacese. 

 (Dolichandrone platycalyx Baker.) 



A tree, 30 to 40 feet high, known in Uganda, where it is native, under 

 the name lusambia. It is said to yield the finest of local timbers. The 

 compound leaves are made up of five to nine obovate leaflets and the 

 flowers, which are yellow striped with red, are borne in axillary and ter- 

 minal panicles. (Adapted from Thiselton-Dyer, Flora of Tropical Africa, 

 vol. J f , pt. 2, p. 525.) 



47500. Monodora myristica (Gaertn.) Dunal. Annonacese. 



Calabash nutmeg. 

 A large, branching tree, native to Africa. The shining, pale-green 

 leaves are confined to the ends of the branches. The fragrant flowers, 

 borne singly in the axils of the leaves, are about 6 inches across, with 3 

 spreading, wavy-margined, yellow petals and three erect, creamy white 

 petals, all six dotted with red. The fruit, 4 to 6 inches in diameter, con- 

 tains a number of cylindrical seeds each about 1 inch long which have a 

 flavor closely resembling that of the nutmeg. (Adapted from Curtis' 's 

 Botanical Magazine, pi. 8059.) 



47501. Pahtjdia africana (Smith) Prain. Csesalpiniacese. 

 (Afzelia africana Smith.) 



This large forest tree is a native of the Niger and Kongo Valleys 

 in western Africa. The abruptly pinnate leaves are made up of four to five 

 pairs of elliptical, thinly coriaceous leaflets 3 to 5 inches long. The 

 small, white and red, fragrant flowers are borne in lax or dense racemes 

 and are followed by smooth, thick, woody pods containing about 10 seeds. 

 (Adapted from Oliver, Flora of Tropical Africa, vol. 2, p. 302.) 



