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Forest Flora of Portuguese East Africa. 
‘ the Ironwood tree of the country, abundant in dry clay plains, forming large monotonous shadeless forests, .... Wood in the heart dark, heavy and very 
durable, difficult to work. Leaves folding up at the junction of the leaflets, and turning down at the articulation with the stem ; they are thus shadeless during the 
dry season at noon.’ The fruit falls in September.” * 
C. coleosperma, Benth. A large glabrous tree, with 2-foliate petiolate leaves, the leaflets falcate-ovate, 5-7 c.m. long, 2-3 c.m. wide, with pinnate venation ; flowers in 
panicles ; legumes much compressed, semi-orbicular, glabrous, 2-3 c.m. long ; seeds arillate. Recorded from Zambesia by Sir John Kirk, who states that in some 
localities this tree “ has been planted at least too years ago,” and that the red aril is used in preparing a nourishing drink. Not seen by me in the coast districts. 
Miss Gibbs, in recording this from Victoria Falls, says “ Evergreen tree, wood red. Seeds ex-arillate in this specimen ; popular name ‘ Rhodesian Teak.’ ” 
118. ERYTHROPHLCEUM. Unarmed trees with 2-pinnate leaves having alternate petiolulate leaflets; flowers in short dense racemes ; and oblong follicular legumes 
containing 5-8 compressed albuminous seeds. Flowers small, sub-regular. Calyx campanulate, 5-fid ; petals 5. 
E. gnineense, Don. A large tree 12-30 metres high. Pinna; 2-4 pairs 15 c m. long, each with 6-1 1 ovate-elliptical oblique leaflets 4-12 c.m. long ; flowers crowded ; 
legumes 6-12 c.m. long, 3-4 c.m. broad, follicular. “The bark is powerfully poisonous, and is administered by native tribes in widely remote regions as an ordeal.” 
Boror, Zambesia, Dr. Peters. Not seen by me though I collected in Boror. Occurs also in Senegambia and Sierra Leone. 
SUB-FAMILY III.— MIMOSE2E. 
Flowers regular, usually 5-mcrous, often minute, in dense heads or spikes. Calyx tubular below ; petals valvate in aestivation ; stamens 10 or many, free or connate ; 
ovary multi-ovulatc ; leaves bi-pinnate. A large and widely dispersed group, well represented in this Province, mostly by trees and shrubs. 
ny. PARKIA. Flowers 5-merous congested in large numbers into dense velvety pear-shaped heads terminal on the long branches of a paniculate terminal inflorescence. 
Calyx tubular with short 5-lobed limb, somewhat 2-lipped. Stamens 10, free from one another but adnate to the petals and calyx-tube. Pod oblong, compressed 
or sub-terete, tardily 2-valved; woody. Seeds set in pulp, exalbuminous. Leaves bi-pinnate, leaflets numerous. 
P. filicoidea, Wehv. Vern. name — 10, Mundi or Moondi (not Mondi). A very large tree 25-30 metres high, and up to 2 metres diameter of stem, almost evergreen, 
the new leaves and flower-buds appearing a week or two after the old ones fall. Leaf 2-pinnate, 30-45 c.m. long, 20-30 c.m. wide, with about 6 pairs of pinna;, 
each having a terminal point on its rachis, and 12-20 pairs of opposite oblique oblong leaflets 15-2 c.m. long, 5-6 m.m. wide. Rachis with 2 glands below the 
lowest pinna;. Paniculate inflorescence 15 c.m. or more long, with the flowers congregated in large numbers in congested pear-shaped fascicles 7 c.m. long, 5 c.m. 
wide, which are at first enclosed in velvety bracts. Calyx 1 c.m. long; petals 5, narrowly strap-shaped, red; stamens 10, free; pistil shorter than stamens; ovules 
in 2 rows about 10 in each ; fruit not seen, described as “Smooth, compressed, though not so much as in the other African species, or scarcely subterete, 10-18 in. 
long, $ in. broad, on stipes of 2 in. more or less The mealy contents of the legumes are eaten, and the crushed seeds are used in native cookery.” 
At Arenga, and through Magenja da Costa and Nhamacurra ; also in the Shire Valley and in West Africa. A highly ornamental tree with beautiful foliage and 
curious inflorescence. 
Plats XLIV. i, Leaf ; 2, Panicle ; 3, Congested inflorescence ; 4, Flowers, x 5 ; 5, Stamen, x 5 ; 6, Pistil, x 8 ; 7, Section of same, x 10 ; 8, Petal, x 5. 
120. ENTADA. Climbers or shrubs with 2-pinnate leaves; spicate inflorescence; 5-merous flowers; 10 stamens; many ovules in each ovary; and coriaceous or woody pods, 
in some species very large, which break into indehiscent 1 -seeded pieces leaving the persistent margin entire. Seeds compressed, exalbuminous, with a central 
mark. 
E. scandens, Benth. Vern. names — 1, Sword bean; 10, Mutagusi ; 11, Mtaburi. An extensive creeper, growing near water and to the top of the highest trees. 
Leaves 2-pinnate, with 2 pairs of pinnte and usually a tendril as termination of the rachis. Leaflets on the pinnae 2-4 pairs, ovate or obovate, oblique, glabrous, 5-7 
c.m. long, or the lower ones smaller. Spike axillary, 20-30 c.m. long, pubescent ; flowers bracted ; bean many-seeded, about 1 metre long, 8-10 c.m. wide, with 
wavy margins and nearly square pieces. Seed 3-4 c.m. across, 1 c.m. diameter. M’Chopes and Magenja da Costa. The liber is used for rough cordage. 
' “Flora of Tropical Africa,” II. 315. 
