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ciliated and pubescent at the base; anthers 2:5 mm. long, 1-5 mm. broad, oblong. 
Ovary 1 mm. long, 1-5 mm. broad, subglobose, densely villous, four-locular with a single 
ovule in each loculus; style 7 mm. long, cylindric, pubescent on the lower half; stigma 
globose, faintly lobed. Fruit 1-7 cm. long, 1-7 cm. in diameter, finely but densely 
pubescent, four-celled, each cell with a single seed, splitting into four valves when ripe. 
Seeds bright scarlet, 7 mm. long, 7 mm. in diameter, subglobose, wrinkled, flat on one 
side, convex on the other, with a fleshy yellow-green arillus. Wood, Natal Plants, 88 ; 
Sim, Forests and Forest Flora, 155; Journ. Bot., XLV, p. 18. Natalia lucens, Hochst., 
Harv. and Sond., Fl. Cap., 1, 369. ; 
Komgha Div., Kei Mouth, 200 ft., August, Flanagan, 421; Transkei, Kentani, 20 ft., 
December, Miss Pegler, 726; Pondoland, mouth of St. Johns River, February, Bolus, 
8836; Flanagan, 2568; 20 ft., January, Manino Forest, Engcobo Dist., August (leaf 
only). Zahn in Herb., Forest Dept., 2046; Natal, near Durban, 200 ft., February, Wood, 
7392 ; March, Wood, 7518; Verulam, 10C—200 ft., January, Wood, 10207 ; near Durban, 
Wood, 2570; 12666; Port Natal, Gueinzuis; Groenberg, February, Wood, 808; without 
precise locality, Saunders ; near, Durban, 200-300 ft. March, Wood, 6307 ; Swaziland, 
kloof near Dalriach Mbabane, c. 4800 ft., December, Bolus ; Transvaal, Barberton Dist., 
Unevoti Creek, Barberton, 3000 ft., February, Galpin, 849; Thorncroft m Herb. Trans- 
vaal Mus., 18292. 
Flanagan, 421, mentioned by Baker as a form with smaller leaflets than the type 
is slightly confusing, inasmuch as Flanagan gave the same number to two different 
collectings. His No. 421 in the Bolus Herb. was collected at the Kei Mouth at an altitude 
of 200 ft. in August, 1894, and is the true B. lucens. His No. 421 in the Cape Government 
Herb. was also collected near the Kei Mouth at an altitude of 300 ft., but in January, 
1890. The inflorescence in these specimens is compact, oblong in outline, and at the end 
of a long naked peduncle 9-12 cm. long. The peduncle is fasciated to a slight extent, 
which will account for the compact inflorescence. There is no difference in the floral 
structures of these specimens and other specimens of B. lucens which I have examined. 
4. B. abyssinica Fresen. 
A tree. Leaves petioled, 18-22 cm. long, pinnate; petiole 4-5 cm. long, terete, 
glabrous; rachis sometimes winged between the uppermost pair of leaflets; leaflets 
usually in four pairs, 2-5-4 cm. apart, 4-9 cm. long, 1-7-3 -5 em. broad, oblong-lanceolate 
or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, acute, entire, or the margin sometimes serrated in the 
upper half, glabrous. Inflorescence racemose, 10-20 cm. long, on a woody peduncle 5—7 em. 
long. Calyx campanulate, silky. Petals five, ligulate-spathulate, twice as long as the 
calyx, densely and finely silky, finally reflexed. Stamens five, in the male flower nearly 
as long as the petals; filaments monadelphous, silky. Capsule about 1 cm. long, 1 em. 
in diameter, subglobose 3-4 valved, densely pubescent, without woody protuberances. 
Seeds 6 mm. long, black. 
This description was drawn up partly from a fruiting specimen collected by Schimper 
in Abyssinia and partly from the description in the ‘ ‘Flora Tropical Africa.” 
Baker, in his monograph on the genus (Journ. Bot., XLV, 12), makes no mention of this 
species occurring in Natal, though “the record is made in the “ Flora Tropical Africa,” 
I, 434. 
= B. integrifolia, Richard, Fl. Abyss., I, 107. This is a tropical African species. 
5. B. tysoniana Oliv. 
A tree 25 ft. high, with a girth of 42 in. (Krid). Branches glabrous. Leaves petioled, 
pinnately compound, 4—-5-jugate, rarely 3-jugate, 5-20 cm. long; petiole 2-5 cm. long, 
subtomentose, pubescent to almost glabrous, sometimes white silky ; leaflets 1-5-6 cm. 
long, 0-7-3 cm. broad, oblanceolate, oblong, oblong-elliptic, rarely obovate, rounded or 
shorty apiculate at the apex, cuneate more rarely rounded at the base, entire, rarely ser- 
rated in the upper half, with the mid-rib prominent beneath, glabrous. Inflorescence a 
