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Forest Flora of Portuguese East Africa. 
c m lone 15 m.m. wide, obliquely rounded at the base, the sides parallel and rounded or somewhat square at the apex. Stipules falcate and auricled. 
n'innate buUhe lower vein on the lower side stronger than others. Leaflets dark green and shining above, pale under. Inflorescence not seen. Pod cuneate 5 
cT ^de blbw rc.m wide at top, obliquely rostrate, set at right angles to the stalk, narrow on x margin but 1 
Distinguished from the other species by the leaf form which in this is very constant. Bark used for same purposes as that of B. sptcaeformis. S 5574 - 
B tamarindoides, Welw. Vern. name- io, Mtagata or mutagata. A nearly glabrous tree 10-15 metres high, with 30-45 c.m. stem diameter and a branched spreading 
crown Young growth pubescent. Rachis 15-20 c.m. long with 15-20 sessile lanceolate-obtuse leaflets, gradually narrower upward, rounded or pointed, 5-6 c.m. 
long, S-.2 m.m wide with an unequal base, the lower lobes overlapping on the rachis. Venation, 2-3 veined on the lower side, pinnate on the upper. Leafle s pa e 
on under surface. Flowers not seen, but described as “ Subsessile, in short dense ferruginous racemes or glomerules in the upper axils or more or confluent in 
terminal oblong panicles of 1 or 2 inches, scarcely overtopping the leaves. Bracts ovate, concave i-i* lines long. Involucral bracteoles rotundate, concave, about 
2 lines long. Perianth reduced to about 5 obovate or oblong ciliate scales, 1 line or less in length. Stamens 10, glabrous ; filaments connate in a very s or ring 
at the base. Ovary subsessile, densely villous ; ovules about seven.” Pod 10-12 c.m. long, 4 c.m. wide, oblong, pointed, with one th jckedge and about 3 seeds , 
2 c.m. long, 15 m.m. wide, flat, and dark brown. Coppice shoots show leaves 45 c.m. long, leaflets up to 9 c.m. long and 3 c.m. wide, but still with the same form 
and have extraordinary development of the auricle of the stipule, with or without a widely falcate foliaceous stipule 2 c.m. long. Frequent in the forests of 
Magenja da Costa and Nhamacurra and the bark is used for all the purposes stated for B. spicreformis. Sim. 5675. 
B Dectinata. (New species.) 1 Vern. name -10, Messina. A large tree 20 metres high, with straight clean white stem 30-45 c.m. diameter; densely pubescent twigs 
and rachis ; and pectinate leaves, 10-15 c.m. long, having 25 to 35 pairs of lanceolate acute nearly glabrous leaflets 10-12 m.m long, 2 m.m. wide at the oblique 
base, and tapering to the acute point. Leaves numerous. Axillary buds (inflorescence?) enclosed in short brown pubescent imbricating scales. Inflorescence not 
seen.’ Pods as in B. tamarindoides but smaller, 7-10 c.m. long, 2-5-3 c.m. wide, 5-6 m.m. diameter at wide edge. Timber used for Marimbas (Native pianos), doors, 
&c. Magenja da Costa and Nhamacurra, not common. Sim 6099. 
114. TAMARINDUS. Large unarmed almost glabrous trees, with evergreen abruptly pinnate, multifoliate leaves, flowers m simple or pamcled racemes, and terete some- 
what beaded {through abortion ) pods containing an edible pulp. Monotypic, widely diffused through tropical countries, probably often by cultivation, but apparently 
indigenous in this Province as well as in other parts of Tropical Africa. 
T. indica, Linn. Vern. names— 1, Tamarind; 2, Tamarindeiro ; 10, Egamsela, Umqwembe and Mamieba. A large or very large tree, often 1 metre diameter of stem 
and 20 metres high, with dense umbrageous canopy. Leaves 8-10 c.m. long, 2 5 c.m. wide, abruptly pinnate, with 10-12 pairs of oblong leaflets 2 c.m. long, 5 m.m. 
wide, rounded and mucronate at the apex, rounded but oblique at the base, and pale under. Racemes terminal and lateral. Flowers yellowish ; Calyx-tube funnel- 
shaped, with 4 imbricate segments ; petals 3 as long as the calyx and 2 minute. Stamens 3, connate below, alternating with minute staminodia. Ovary stalked ; 
Ovules many. Pod 2-12 c.m. long, 1-5 seeded, somewhat constricted between the seeds, or much constricted where a seed has aborted ; mucronate, terete, fleshy, 
indehiscent, the flesh acidulous and edible; seeds somewhat flattened, 4 angled, contained in a skin or aril, exalbuminous. Frequent in the forests of Magenja da 
Costa and Nhamacurra, usually on ant heaps, and strangely, the natives there did not know its pods to he edible till I showed them, when they took to them readily. 
Cultivated and naturalised but not indigenous at Inhambane. 
1*1. atr XLVII. I, Tree, general aspect (reduced) ; 2, Branch, with leaves and fruits ; 3, Section of pod ; 4, Seed. 
1 15. SCHOTIA. Trees with paripinnate leaves, and short dense cymose axillary panicles of crimson flowers, each flower 1 c.m. or more long. Calyx-tube various, its limb 
of 4 often unequal segments imbricated in aestivation. Petals 5, almost equal, regular, rising from the mouth of the calyx-tube, imbricate. Stamens 10, free or 
almost so, perigynous, of two lengths, each alternate shorter ; the filaments slender, the anthers dehiscing by longitudinal slits. Ovary stalked, many-ovuled, with a 
long subulate style and small capitate stigma. Legume oblong, flat, woody, tardily dehiscent, r-several seeded, the margin keeled or somewhat winged, the seeds 
flat, exalbuminous, usually with an aril. Stipules small ; bracts and bracteoles usually caducous. 
' Brachystegia pectinata. (Sp. nov.) Arbor magna, 20 m. alta, caulc recto mundo albo 30-35 c.m. diam.; ramuliset rachi dense pubescentibus ; foliis permultis, foliolis pectinatis 25-35-jugis, lanceolatis 
acutis IO-12 m.m. longis, basi obliqua 2 m.m. lata, in mucronem aculum productis ; inflorescentia haud visa ; fructibus iis B. tamarindoidis similibus nisi minoribus, 7-10 c.m. longis, 2 5-3 c.m. latis. Magenja d«* 
Costa and Nhamacurra. Sim 6099. 
