Synoptical and Specific Descriptions. 
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hardly compressed, indehiscent, firmly papery, with 1-2 seeds bedded in an acidulous brown covering. Seeds ovate, somewhat compressed (or where 2 irregular in 
form), grey, glabrous, hard, with flat green cotyledons and abundant horny albumen. Leaves unequally pinnate, the leaflets opposite, sub-opposite and alternate. 1 
A, arborea. (New species.) 2 Vcrn. names — 4, Mneba and Treba ; 5, 6, Ziba or Inziba. A large timber tree, frequent throughout the Province, especially in the south. 
Leaves alternate, imparipinnate, 7-10 c.m. long, 4-5 c.m. wide, at first rusty, afterwards glabrescent ; leaflets about n, opposite, sub-opposite or alternate, more or 
less obliquely ovate, elliptical or oblong, usually bluntly pointed but with the point recurved, 2-2‘5 c.m. long, 1 c.m. wide, with a petiole 2 m.m. long. Panicle 
diffuse, terminal and axillary 10-20 c.m. long, nearly as wide. Flowers 1 c.m. wide, scented. Growth-buds, inflorescence, calyx, ovary and fruit all finely rusty- 
pubescent. Sim 6141. 
Plate XXVI. 1, Branch ; 2, Panicle ; 3, Flower, x 5 ; 4, Tree, general habit (reduced) ; 5, Fruit. 
SUB-FAMILY II.-CAESALPINIE2E. 
Stamens 10 or fewer. Cylyx 5-fid, or by union of the upper two, 4-fid. Corolla regular, irregular, or absent ; petals free, equal or unequal, not papilionaceous, imbricate, 
the upper petal within the others ; stamens 10 or fewer, free, or more or less connate. Leaves alternate, 2-lobed, pinnate or bi pinnate. Mostly tropical or sub-tropical trees 
and shrubs. 
107. PELTOPHORUM. Represented in Africa by only one species. 
P. africanum, Sond. Vern. name — 5, Nzeza; no name in Maputa though present. A small unarmed tree, usually 3-5 metres high, with abruptly 2-pinnatc leaves; 
terminal racemes of yellow flowers, and flat indehiscent winged pods. All young parts densely brown-pubescent, which pubescence is gradually reduced in quantity 
with age, but even mature leaves are somewhat pubescent above, and silky pubescent below. Leaves alternate, abruptly 2-pinnate, with 5-8 pairs of pinnae each 
with 10-20 oblong sessile mucronate leaflets. Stipules 6 m.m. long, linear, and like the growth-buds densely rusty-pubescent. Racemes terminal S-10 c.m. long, 
many flowered. Sepals 5, nearly equal, with a short tube. Petals obovate, wavy ; stamens 10, free ; filaments hairy below ; ovary with 2 or more ovules. Pods 
6-8 c.m. long, 2 c.m. wide, oblong, acute, flat, indehiscent, somewhat winged on both sides, 1-2 seeded, glabrous or minutely canescent, striated. Seeds albuminous. 
Frequent in the Lebombo Range and seen sparingly elsewhere in extra-tropical districts. Also found in West Africa. An ornamental tree, worth cultivation as such. 
Sim 6266. 
Plate XLIX. B. 
108. CiESALPINIA. Represented in this Province by only one species C. Bonducella, Roxb., which being barely of shrub size, and of no practical use, is hardly worth 
mention here. It has large 2-pinnate leaves 30-45 c.m. long ; recurved prickles on the stem, rachis and inflorescence ; many flowered bracted racemes ; nearly 
regular, yellow flowers ; and oblong, prickly, somewhat compressed pods 5-7 c.m. long, 3-4 c.m. wide. It is frequent near the coast or tidal rivers throughout the 
Province, and children use the pods as rattles. 
C. pulcherrima, Sw. (= Poinciana pulcherrima, L.), is common in cultivation and is the street tree of Quelimane (where it is called Acacia ), but is hardly naturalised 
anywhere. Its beautiful foliage, scarlet flowers, flat crown and long pods make it a marked feature, but somehow its beauty is not appreciated where it grows easily. 
109. CASSIA. A very large genus of trees, shrubs and herbs, represented in this Province by 10 or 12 species of useless half-ligneous shrubs or shrublets of no importance 
except such as is attached to them in native medicine and superstition. They have paripinnate leaves, and axillary racemes, clusters, solitary flowers, or terminal 
panicles of yellow flowers. Calyx deeply 5-parted, the segments often unequal, imbricate. Petals 5, hardly equal ; stamens 5, 7, ro, in the latter case the upper 
3 often smaller and effete, all basifixed and dehiscing by terminal pores. Ovary elongate ; ovules many ; legume terete or flattened, many-seeded, dehiscent or 
indehiscent. 
' Named after Major Frere d’Andrade, Governor-General of the Province of Mozambique, whose active interest in the development of the Province and its resources has, among its other results, been 
productive of this book. 
5 A. arborea. (Sp. nov.) Arbor magna ; foliis alternis, imparipinnatis, 7-10 c.m. longis, 4-5 c.m. latis, primo ferrugineis, demum glabrescent thus ; foliolis circitcr 1 1, plus minus oblique ovatis ellipticis 
vel oblongis, plerumque in mucrontm obtusum reflexum productis, 2-2'5 c.m. longis, 1 c.m. latis, stipite 2 m.m. longo praeditis ; panicula dilTusa, apicali vcl axilluri, 10-20 c.m. longa, ct lantum non lata ; floribus 
| c.m. latis, odoratis ; gemmis, inflorescenlia, calycc, ovario el fructu pubescentia ferruginea subtili vestitis. Per provinciam frequens, praccipuc in parte nustrali. Sim 6141. Tail. XXVI, 
