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the mid-rib prominent beneath and the lateral veins distinct, glabrous. Inflorescence 
sessile, 2-5-5 cm. long, about 3 cm. in diameter, subglobose or ovoid in shape, surrounded. 
at the base with numerous ovate acuminate densely silky bracts about 2 cm. long. Floral- 
bract 7 mm. long, ovate, acuminate, very densely silky. Pedicel about 4 cm. long, terete, 
silky. Sepals 6 mm. long, ovate, acute, distinctly keeled, silky. Petals 1-3 cm. long, 
about 3 mm. broad at the middle, spathulate-linear, tomentose without, sometimes with 
two marginal processes at the middle. Stamens monadelphous; filaments terete and 
narrowing above, flattened below and hairy on the flattened portion. Ovary 1-5 mm. 
jong, sub-globose, villous; style 1-3 cm. long, terete and densely villous in the lower 2 
becoming more or less four-angled and glabrous above; stigma globose. Fruit not seen. 
Pondoland : In monte propoxe ostium flum St. Johns R., c. 1000 ft., February, Bolus 
8724; 20 ft., January, Flanagan 2884; Port St. Johns, Swinny in Herb. Forest Dept., 
1038, 1037; Pongwani Forest, Port St. Johns, January, Coetzee in Herb. Forest Dept., 
1866. 
2. B. Stayneri Phillips. 
Rami glabri. Folia pinnata, 7-16 cm. longa, 4—5-jugata; petiolus pilosus; folioal 
1-7-5 -2 cm. longa, 0-8-1-5 cm. lata, oblongo-lanceolata vel elliptica, apice acuta mucro- 
nataque, basi paullo cuneata, subtus pilosa vel pubescentia. Racemus 3 -5-6-5 cm. longus. 
Fructus 2-7-3 cm. longus, ligneus. 
Bark thick and rough. Branches glabrous, rough with longitudinal furrows. Leaves 
pinnate, petioled, 7-16 cm. long, 4-5-jugate ; petiole 1-2 cm. long, very densely pilose ; 
rachis densely pilose ; leaflets 1-7-5-2 cm. long, 0-8-1-5 cm. broad, oblong-lanceolate or 
elliptic, acute and mucronate at the apex rarely rounded, slightly cuneate at the base, 
the mid-rib deeply sunk on the under surface which is frequently s»mewhat rugose, 
prominent beneath and with the lateral veins distinct beneath, glabrous above, pilose or 
pubescent beneath, especially on the mid-rib. Inflorescence a _ shortly peduncled 
many-flowered raceme, 3-5-6-5 cm. long; peduncle 1-1-5 cm. long, very densely pilose. 
Bracts 3 mm. long, linear, tomentose, Pedicels 5 mm. long, terete, tomentose. Calyx 
6 mm. long, densely tomentose, divided almost to the base. Petals 1-3 cm. long, 
3 mm. broad, spathulate-linear, tomentose, reflexed in open flowers. Filaments 5 mm. 
long, semiterete, monadelphous and villous at the base. Ovary densely villous; style 
3 mm. long, terete; stigma subglobose. Fruit 2-7-3 cm. long dehiscing by four valves ; 
valves woody, covered with woody protuberances. Seeds reddish in colour, 1-1 cm. long, 
6 mm. in diameter, ellipsoid, with a waxy yellow arillus at the base. 
Natal, without locality, Stayner in Herb. Bolus; Stinkwood Forest, Ingeli, May, 
Chilvers in Herb. Forest Dept., 1518; Mkanzeni, Riversides, Henkel n Herb. Forest Dept., 
2421. 
3. B. lucens Szysz. 
A shrub 8-10 ft. high (ex Wood). Branches glabrous, with wrinkled greyish bark. 
Leaves petioled, compound, imparipinnate, 2—4-jugate, 10-20 cm. long ; petiole 1 -5-5-5 cm. 
long, glabrous, rarely pubescent; leaflets 1-8-9 cm. long, 1 -3-4-6 cm. broad, obovate or 
obovate-elliptic, rarely elliptic, very rarely subacute, slightly narrowed at the base, 
glabrous, with the mid-rib distinct. above, prominent beneath, and with thickened wavy 
margins. Inflorescence a lax axillary or terminal raceme, 6-14 -5 cm. long, many-flowered ; 
peduncle pubescent. Pedicels 0-4-1 cm. long, terete, densely tomentose with fine adpressed 
hairs ; bracts 0-5 mm. long, ovate, pubescent. Calyx gamosepalous ; lobes 3-4 mm. long, 
2 mm. broad, ovate or ovate-elliptic, obtuse, finely but densely pubescent without and with 
fine adpressed hairs within, ciliated, the two posterior lobes connate and bifid at the apex. 
Petals dull yellow, 8-5 mm. long, 2-5 mm. broad above, oblong, obtuse, narrowed into 
an evident claw, pubescent. Disc unilateral. Filaments all connate at the base, 1 mm. 
long, terete, glabrous except at the base, the anterior filaments ciliated at the base and 
forming a tomentose shield 3 mm. long and 2:5 mm. broad; the posterior filaments 
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