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\ iolet coloured , standard obovate ; side petals with an auricle on each side at the base, that on the upper side somewhat hooked ; lower petals free, auricled at the 
base. Stamens all free, one standing separate. Ovary pubescent with about 6 ovules. Pod dehiscent, 5-7 c.m. long, flat, several-seeded.' Never large, but a 
\a ua le timber and in demand. Frequent in Maputa and Marracuene ; especially toward the Lebombos, less common near Lourenzo Marques, and not noticed 
north of the Limpopo, though being deciduous and leafless while I was there it may have been overlooked. Occurs also in the Transvaal and Rhodesia. 
Plate L. A. i, flowering branch with partly developed leaves; 2, Flower; 3, Section of pistil ; 4, Stamens; 5, Upper pair of petals ; 6, Lower pair of petals; 7, Pistil; 8, Flower, petals 
removed ; 9, Stamen, x 2 ; 10, Stipule, x 5. 
101. LONCHOCARPUS. Trees and woody climbers with imparipinnate leaves; opposite stipellate leaflets . pendent racemose "i paniculate inflores . and indehiscent 
or tardily dehiscent woody pods. Calyx campar.ulate ; standard rounded ; keel petals slightly coherent. Stamens monadelphous, the upper stamen free at the base. 
Ovary somewhat stalked, with several ovules. Pod woody, several-seeded, sometimes wide on the upper side. 
L. laxiflorus, Guill. & Perr. Vern. name — 4 and 15, Panda. A small tree 5-10 metres high, with straight stem 30-45 c.m. diameter, grey bark, and glaucous more 
or less deciduous foliage. Leaves pinnate, 1-3-5 foliate, with peduncle 2-5 c.m. long, rachis 2-stipellate below the upper leaflet and at each pair of leaflets ; leaflets 
varying much with age and position from widely lanceolate, acute, 3-5 c.m. long, to ovate or obovate, rounded or bluntly pointed, S 15 c.m. long, 4-8 c.m. wide, 
glabrous and finally subcoriaceous. Panicles terminal, 10-15 c.m. long, spreading, many flowered; flowers light blue, sweetly scented ; side and lower petals eared ; 
stamens connate \ their length, upper one partly free. Pod flat, 5-10 c.m. long, 2 c.m. wide, with a thick upper suture, 13 seeded ; seeds reniform, flat, 1-5 c.m. 
long. I his looks a promising tree, but is practically a forest weed since it has no value. The timber is useless and not durable, and will not burn ; the tree 
reproduces itself freely from seed, and also every cut root grows and stumps are difficult to kill. Although the flowers are rather pretty, Wistaria-like, this is a tree 
which it is well to be rid of. Abundant in Lourenzo Marques, Maputa and Marracuene; not noticed north of the Limpopo, but probably present and deciduous 
during my visit, as it is recorded from Zambesi-land, Kirk! Mozambique, Peters 1 as well as from Abyssinia and West Africa. Capassa violacea, Klotzsch in 
Peters’ Mossamb. Bot., 28, t. 5 ; L. Philenoptera, Benth. 
Plate L. B. i, Panicle and young leaves ; 2, Old leaf ; 3, Side petal ; 4, Lower petals ; 5, Stamens ; 6, Pod ; 7, Seed. 
L. mossambicensis. (New species.) 1 Vern. names— 6, Chicuswa; 10, 1 1, Pangira, Mpangeli. A valuable timber tree 20-30 metres high, with straight nearly white stem 
20-40 c.m. diameter. Leaves 30-45 c.m. long, imparipinnate, with 3-5 pairs of leaflets and an obovate terminal one, which is often 15 c.m. or more long, others 
oblong, obovate or elliptical, shortly petioled, 8-10 c.m. long, 5-8 c.m. wide, glabrous above, silky below, and with 2 stipellae on the rachis at each pair of leaflets 
and below the terminal one. Inflorescence on a rachis 5 c.m. long, many flowered, described to me as like Wistaria ; Pod 20-35 c - m - long, 2 '5 5 C.m. wide, flat, 
hard, woody, indehiscent (or tardily dehiscent), tapering to the base, and rounded with a short point at the apex, 4-8 seeded, densely rufous-velvety when young, 
warted and glabrescent when mature; 4-5 m.m. diameter, or rather more at the seeds. Seeds 2-2-5 c.m. long, 2 c.m. wide, compressed, brown, glabrous, 
exalbuminous ; pod finely silky in the cell around the seed, adnate if not connected between the seeds. Mentioned in “Flora of Tropical Africa,” II., 243, under 
L. macrostachys, Hook. Planted from stem cuttings along the roads as a shade tree at Quisico ; frequent in M’Chopes and Inhanibanc (extra-tropical), and abundant 
in the forests of Quelimane, Magenja da Costa and Nhamacurra (tropical). This and various other trees have the name Pao fcrro (= ironwood) applied to their 
timber on account of its hardness. Sim 5382. 
Plate LIII. i, Leaf and fruit; 2, Seed. 
102. DERRIS. Shrubs or climbing shrubs, with imparipinnate leaves, axillary and terminal panicles of white or rose-coloured flowers, and oblique, flat, oblong, somewhat 
winged, indehiscent pods, containing one or few seeds. 
1 In the January, 1907, number of the “Transvaal Agricultural Journal ” there is a coloured plate with a short description of the tree. 
* Lonchocarpus Mossambicensis. (Sp. nov.) Arbor 20-30 m. alta, cauli erecto paene albo, 20-40 c.m. diam. ; foliis imparipinnatis, 30 45 c.m. longis ; foliolis 3-5 jugis, foliolo apicali obovato 15 c.m. 
longo, caeteris oblongis, ellipticis, breviter petiolatis, S-10 c.m. longis, 5-8 c.m. latis, in pagina superiore glabris, inferiore scriceis, slipellatis ; inflorescentia cac Wislarine simili ; lcguminc 20-35 c - m> longo, 2-5-5 
c.m. lato, piano, duro, ligneo, non vel serius dehiscente, basi angusliore, apice, subacuto, 4-S spermo, juveni pubescentia densa rufa vclutina vest i to, rrmturo vcriucoso ct subglabro ; semine 2-2-5 c.m. longo, 
2 c.m. lato, compresso, fusco, glabro ; albumine nullo. M’Chopes et Inhambane (extra trop.), Quelimane Magenja da Costa et Nhamacurra (trop.) ; frequens in sylvis ; propc Quisico ad vius posila. 
Tab. LIII. 
