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Natal: Near Durban, 100 ft., Wood, 1917, and in Natal Govt. Herb., 2213; Berea, 
Durban, 100-200 ft., May, Wood, 11869, and in Natal Govt. Herb., 13053; Port Natal, 
Saunderson (?). : 
Wood states: “In the ‘ Flora Capensis,’ Vol. I, 240, this plant is described as 
dicecious. We find, however, that it is certainly polygamous, and plants which in one 
season bear a larger number of perfect flowers, in another season bear male ones only, 
or with but very few perfect ones.” In the Stellabush at Durban I saw trees well over 
20 ft. high. —(#. P. P.) 
DISTRIBUTION : Komgha. 
BERSAMA, FRESEN. 
Mid-rib on lower surface of leaf covered with long straight hairs.......... Stayner. 
Mid-rib quite glabrous. 
Leaves usually 2-3-jugate; leaflets obovate, usually rounded at the 
SEE O WLS ea ey as RE EE RE EK lucens. 
Leaves usually 4-jugate; leaflets oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, acute.. abyssinica. 
B. Stayneri Phillips. 
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 somewhat 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. Falaments 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; Stinkwocd Forest, Ingeli, Natal, 
May, Chilvers n Herb. Forest Dept., 1518; Mkanzeni, Riversides, Natal, Henkel in Herb. 
Forest Dept., 2421. 
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 em. 
long, glabrous, rarely pubescent ; leaflets 1-8-9 cm. long, 1 -3-4-5 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. sc unilateral. Filaments all connate at 
the base, 1 cm. 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 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; 
