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Forest Flora of Portuguese East Africa. 
the deflexed and more numerous filaments. Stipules caducous, on flowering parts conspicuous, i c.m. long, pubescent. Pod straight, flat, reticulate, 12-15 c.m. 
long, 2-3 c.m. wide; seed 7-10 m.m. long, oblong flat. Abundant throughout the Province, as also in Natal and in West Africa. Much used in Natal for naves 
and other wagon wood purposes, but as it is practically cut out there and in demand in Cape Colony and Transvaal for these purposes, there is an opening for export 
from this Province, where the material is abundant and good. See “Forest Flora of Cape Colony,” page 213, Plate LXII. 
PLATE LVIII. I, Flowering branch ; 2, Flower ; 3, 4, Central flower, x 2 ; 5, Stipule, x 2 ; 6, Seed ; 7, Section of same ; 8, Tree, general aspect (much reduced) ; 9, Pod ; 10, Section of same. 
As the species of Albizzia*are more or less regularly deciduous and several may have been without leaves, flowers or fruit during my visit to Zambesia, I 
introduce here the following species included in the “ Flora of Tropical Africa” as belonging to the Province, though not found in recognisable form by me : — 
A. anthelmintica, A. Brogn. “ A shrub or small tree (in Zambesi-land occasionally with a trunk 3-4 ft. in diam.) wholly glabrous or extremities petioles and peduncles in 
the Zambesi plant minutely pubescent. Leaf rachis £-3 in. long, usually with minute glands; pinnae 2-3 (1-4) jugate; leaflets 2-3 (-5) jugate, the upper larger, 
obliquely obovate or obovatc elliptical, obtuse, mucronate, glabrous, glaucescent, reticulate, paler or glaucescent beneath, the upper varying to if inch in length, 
usually smaller, petiolule £ line or less. Peduncles fascicled or solitary in the upper axils or from leafless nodes on the older wood, about | inch long. Flowers 
‘whitish,’ sub-sessile, on pedicels ,} 0 in. Calyx infundibuliform, denticulate, at length irregularly split, half as long as petals which are connate §. United base of 
the filaments included. Legume 2-6 in. long, few-seeded, narrowed at the base, often sinuous from abortion of seeds, in. broad in our specimens 
Shire River, Zambesia {Dr. Mcller !). The bark is used as an anthelmintic in Abyssinia. * Wood hard, and used in canoe-making in Zambesi-land ’ {Dr. Meller)." 
A. glabrescens, Oliv. “A large tree; extremities minutely rusty-pubescent, early glabrous or nearly so, lenticellate, dark reddish brown. Leaf rachis 1-3 in., glabrate, 
eglandular (in our specimens) ; pinna; 2-1 jugate ; leaflets 4-6 jugate, shortly petiolulate, oblique or sub-falcate, oblong-rhomboidal or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, the 
uppermost pair largest, glabrous or midrib puberulous above, shining, reticulate, with the lower lateral nervure prolonged half the length of the leaflet, varying to 2 
in. in length, the lower frequently not half as long ; petiolule £ line long. Peduncles one inch, fascicled in the nodes, and racemosely or corymbosely crowded on 
leafless shoots 2-3 in. in length. Inflorescence pubescent more or less. Pedicels equalling the calyx or flower. Calyx tubular campanulate, 5-dentate, 1 line long. 
Petals united f , twice as long as the calyx. United base of the filaments included. Zanzibar ; and Kongone, Zambesi, growing in open spaces between the lines 
of mud creeks ; Dr. Kirk." 
A. Lebbek, Benth. “Tree ; extremities wholly glabrous or puberulous. Leaf rachis 3-9 in., with a large sessile gland near the base, with usually one or more inter-jugal 
glands ; pinna; usually 2-4 jugate ; leaflets 3-9 jugate, elliptic-oblong, or the upper more oblique and obovate-oblong, very obtuse or retuse, sub-sessile, glabrous, 
reticulate, 1-2 in. long, $-■{ in. broad. Peduncles 2-4 in., fascicled from the upper axils or corymbose; flowers glabrate or puberulous, capitate, on pedicels of 1-3 
lines. Calyx 1 J-2 lines long, with short deltoid teeth. Free extremities of petals ovate-lanceolate. United base of the filaments included. Legume £-1 ft. long, 
i-i£ in. broad, . ... ( Upper Guinea and Nile- land.) Mossambique district, near the coast-line, Dr. Peters." 
A. Petersiana, Bolle, in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot., 1, t. 1. “Shrub, wholly glabrous or young extremities obsoletely puberulous. Leaf rachis \-i in. long, with a sessile 
gland near the base ; pinnae 2-4 jugate ; leaflets 3 6 jugate, sub-sessile, obovale-rhomboidal, obtuse glabrous, £ to little over | in. in length ; the upper sometimes 
nearly 1 in. long, and over b in. broad (Bolle). Peduncles i-ii in. long, slender, fascicled from leafless nodes, forming short corymbs. Flowers ‘purple,’ glabrous. 
Calyx tubular campanulate, dentate, about 1 line long. Petals united £-£, f lve times longer than the calyx, forming a tubular corolla dilated at the throat. Staminal 
tube slender, far exserted. Legume not seen. Zambesi, Dr. liters ; Rovuma River, 28 miles from the coast, Dr. Meller l ” 
FAMILY XXIX,— ROSACE^E. 
A very large Family of trees, shrubs and herbs, having widely different characters, but as it is represented in the ligneous flora of this Province by only 2 species, the 
characters of those species are all that are required here, alike for the Family and genera. 
126. PYGEUM africanum, Hook, f. Vern. names— 1, Red Stinkwood ; Bitter Almond; 14, Roode Stinkhout. A large evergreen tree, 15-25 metres high, 50-100 
c.m. diameter of stem, with heavy glossy foliage resembling Portugal Laurel. Leaves alternate, simple, elliptic-oblong, acute, tapering to both ends, 8-10 c.m. long, 
3-4 c.m. wide, thinly coriaceous, glabrous, crenate-serrate, the lower pair of teeth glandular ; the venation reticulate, with a distinct midrib in continuation of the 
channelled petiole of 3-4 c.m. length. Stipules minute, caducous. Flowers in racemes 5-7 c.m. long, axillary singly on the lower parts of the young shoots, or on 
