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stigma globose, faintly lobed. Fruit 1:7 mm. long, 1-7 cm. in diameter, finely but densely aN 
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, Pl.88. Sim, 
Forests and Forest Flora, 175. Journ. Bot. XLV, p. 18. Natalia lucens, Hochst., Harv. and 
Sond. Fl. Cap. I, 369. 
Natal: Umbilo, 20-100 ft., May, Wood, 12612, and in Natal Herb., 14571 : near 
Verulam, 100-200 ft., January, Wood, 10207, and n Natal Govt. Herb., 11411; Durban Flats, 
near Umgeni, September, Wood in Natal Herb., 2868; near Stamford Hill, Wood ; Groen- 
berg, February, Wood, 808 ; near Durban, 200-300 ft., March, Wood, 6307 ; without locality, 
Saunders ; Palmiet, near Durban, 200 ft., February, Wood, 7392; Port Natal, Gueinzous, 
DISTRIBUTION : Swaziland, Transvaal, Kentani, Pondoland, Komgha. 
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 cm. broad, oblong-lanceolate 
or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, acute, entire or the margins 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 cm. in diameter, subglobose, 3-4-valved, densely pubescent, without woody protuber- 
ances. 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 of Tropical Africa.” 
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