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Forest Flora of Portuguese East Africa. 
D. uliginosa, Benth. A wide-climbing shrub wilh glabrous leaves having 3-5-7 oblong, pointed, shortly petiolate leaflets 5-10 c.m. long, 3-5 c.m. wide, rounded or cordate 
at the base. Panicles 10-20 c.m. long, narrow, with shortly pedicelled rose-coloured flowers. Pod 3 c.m. long, 2-5 c.m. wide, compressed, glabrous ; the upper 
suture straight and narrowly winged, the lower rounded and not winged. Seeds 2. “Zambesi-land, banks of the Luabo, and in the Zambesi delta, Kirk. Stems 
used when beaten as a fish poison acting rapidly and effectively.” Asia, Australia, and Madagascar. 
103. SOPHORA. Represented in Mozambique Province by only one species. 
S. tomentosa, Linn. A maritime shrub 3-5 metres high silvery-white throughout except the bright yellow petals and dark pods. Leaves 15 c.m. long, 10 c.m. wide, with 
6-8 pairs of oblong, nearly sessile, silvery pubescent leaflets, and terminal one. Inflorescence a many-flowered terminal raceme 10-15 c.m. long. Stamens 10, free. 
Pods 7-12 c.m. long, 2-6 seeded ; each pod constricted between the seeds, with a stalk 2 c.m. long and a point 1-5 c.m. long. S. inhambanensis, Klotzsch, Bazaruto, 
Bartholemew Dias, Sofala and Zambesia. A most effective plant for horticultural work where it will grow. 
Plate LI. 1, Flowering raceme ; 2, Fruiting branch. 
104. SWARTZIA. An American genus with only one African species. 
S. madagascariensis, Desv. Vern. name 10, Naquada. A tree 10-20 metres high, with erect, nearly white stem, 20-40 c.m. diameter; imparipinnate leaves, few 
flowered racemes, and long terete pods which easily identify the tree. Leaves alternate, 16-20 c.m. long, 10 c.m. wide, with 9-11-13 leaflets; the terminal one 5-7 
c.m. long, 2 5-4 c.m. wide, obovate ; the others elliptical, minutely mucronate, 4-5 c.m. long, 2-5 c.m. wide, with petioles 3 m.m. long. Youngest wood, rachis, 
petioles and veins densely but finely silky-pubescent; under surface of leaf sparingly so. Pod 15-30 c.m. long, indehiscent, terete or very bluntly 4-sided, 15-20 
m.m. diameter, rounded and mucronate at the point, with the seeds in a central cell, having an empty cell on each side and a glabrous brown leathery coat, some- 
what fleshy inside. 
1 his and several other trees yield very hard dark timber known as Pau-ferro, ( = iron-wood) and probably on this account I found natives confuse this and 
the dissimilar Lonchocarpus mossambicensis, some giving the names Pangira and Naquada to either. The Portuguese name Scopira belongs to one or both of 
these. Abundant in most of the forests north of the Zambesi ; not seen in the extra-tropical districts. Recorded from most other parts of Tropical Africa. 
Plate LI I. 
105. CORDYLA. Monotypic, on the following Tropical African tree. 
C. africana, Lour. I mi. flames 4, Boboti ; 6, Moanjwa ; 10, Moroanda. A very large tree, 20-30 metres high, with an enormous spread of branches, and sometimes 
x * metres d,ameter of stem. Leaves alternate, simply pinnate with 10-12 or more pairs of elliptical leaflets and a terminal one, all 4 c.m. long, 12-20 m.m. wide, 
shortly petioled, and either rounded, bluntly pointed, or slightly emarginate at the apex. Racemes axillary near the points of the branches, 2-20 flowered, secund, 
t k owers all showing upward. Calyx widely cup-shaped with 4 deltoid segments. Petals absent. Stamens numerous; filaments 1 c.m. long, golden yellow, 
ma i-ing the flowers conspicuous. Ovary obliquely pointed, stalked, 8-10 ovuled ; fruit globose or somewhat elliptical, 3-4 c.m. long, 2-5 c.m. diameter on a 3 c.m. 
peduncle, leathery indehiscent, 1-8 seeded, the seeds lying across the fruit, and varying very much in size and form. The timber which is light and soft is that used 
° r 1 10 construcl >on of native pianos (6, Marimba, 10, Mangwela) and also for native drums. Nowhere abundant, but not uncommon throughout the Province ; 
present also in Nile-land and Senegambia. 
\I.\ I, i, Leaf, 2, Raceme , 3, !• lower, cut open, x 2 ; 4, Flower, slightly enlarged; 5, Fruit ; 6, Section of same ; 7, Large seed ; 8, Tree, general aspect (reduced). 
ANDRADIA. (New genus.) Calyx-tube saucer-shaped, discoid ; segments 5 (or occasionally 6-7), free to the disc, petaloid, much imbricate in aestivation, at length 
spreading. 1 etals absent. Stamens 10 (or occasionally fewer), equal, free, rising from the margin of the disc ; filaments filiform ; anthers basifixed, cordate-oblong, 
wit i a siort projecting connective, and opening by terminal lateral slits. Ovary shortly stipitate, with short bent style, 1-3 ovuled. Fruit ovoid, shortly stalked, 
aequis, filameniis hT^rL^diforinibu^ ^ |)alcll ‘ fomi . 1 dlscoldeo * segment is 5 (6-7) petaloideis, nestivatione late imbricatis, demum patentibus ; petalis nullis ; staminibus 10 (interdum paucioribus) 
brevi curvato • fiuctu ovoideo breviter si^ 1 t ' ** ’ ^ miUl ! ,S ’ c,,,dal °- old °ngis, »n connectivam brevem productis, fissura lateral! apicem versus dehiscentibus ; ovario breviter stipitalo, ovulis 1-3 ; stylo 
viridibus^aUiinni^^o^oso^orneo.^Foliis hnpari^ ' “ ^ *** *** cotyledon ibuf plaL 
