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specia si e s loots. acemes 15-30 flowered; inflorescence and calyces glabrous. Flowers 1 c.111. across, hermaphrodite ; calyx with 5 short teeth ; petals and 
stamens evi ent y perigynous, petals white, 6 m.m. long, softly hairy and somewhat fringed. Stamens numerous, perigynous, longer than the petals, spreading in a 
circe. vary superior, sessile, short, free, consisting of a single carpel with a terminal style, a capitate stigma and -• pendulous collateral ovules. Fruit leathery, 
transversely o long or somewhat 2-lobed, i-seeded, green, 1 c.111. long, 15 m.m. wide. Cotyledons twisted. An important timber tree for wagon-wood wherever 
obtainable, as it is m Cape Colony, Natal, and West Tropical Africa, while Sir J. Kirk found it in Mozambique district at the foot of Mount Tschiradzurn, 3000 feet, 
and near Munguzi. I his tree is easily recognised, and I did not see it in the Province, but think it probably extends along the western border. For uses and 
illustration see “Forest Flora of Cape Colony,” 215, Plate LXIII. 
127. PARINARIUM, Mabola, Oliv. Vent, names — 1, Hissing-tree (Miss Gibbs); 16, Mola or Mabola Plum, Dr. Kirk-, Mkuna (Miss Gibbs). A large evergreen tree, 
having alternate, coriaceous, entire, simple, oblong, obtuse leaves, tomentose on the under surface; terminal and axillary panicles of cymose flowers; sepals and 
petals 5 ; stamens 7-8, perigynous; ovary sessile in the mouth of the calyx tube, more or less 2-cclled, with 1 ovule in each. “ Drupe sub-globose or plum-like, with 
a thick bony 2 or i-celled putamen; pulp strawberry-like in flavour.” Found in Zambesia by Sir J. Kirk. Other species occur northward and westward. 
FAMILY XXX.— SAXIFRAGACEAi. 
A large Family with considerable range of characters and as it is represented in the ligneous flora here by only 1 aberrant species the characters of that will suffice. 
128. BREXIA, madagascariensis. Bot. Reg. t. 730. A very variable glabrous shrub, 3-5 metres high, growing among mangroves on tidal mud from Delagoa Bay northward. 
Leaves alternate, obovate, coriaceous, 8-15 c.m. long, 5 c.m. wide, toothed or sub-entire; cymes axillary, lew-flowered; flowers 3 c.m. across, greenish, 5-merous ; 
stamens 5, sub-hypogynous; ovary superior with a single style, 5-celled, with numerous ovules. Fruit drupaceous, woody, oblong pointed, 7 c.m. long, 3 c.m. wide, 
1 -celled, many-seeded. 
CALYCIFLORyE. Group II. Section 2. 
Ovary usually inferior, 2 or several-celled (except Combretacese). Seeds exalbuminous (except Weihea). Style undivided. Stamens numerous, or twice as many as 
the petals. 
FAMILY XXXI.— COM BRETACEAi. 
Flowers perfect or polygamous; inflorescence in terminal or axillary spikes or racemes, (or these when terminal and axillary forming a panicle,) or sometimes capitate. 
Calyx tube adnate with the ovary, spreading above and 4-5 parted. Petals 4-5 small or minute, or absent, rising from the margin of the calyx-tube. Stamens as many or twice as 
many as the petals. Ovary inferior, i-celled, with 2-5 pendulous ovules. Style single; fruit angled or winged. Seed exalbuminous, solitary pendulous. '1 rees, shrubs, or 
scandent trailers, with simple, entire, exstipulate leaves. 
129. COMBRETUM. Flowers perfect or polygamous ; inflorescence in spikes, racemes, or panicles. Calyx attached to the narrow ovary, and spreading, cup-shaped, above. 
Flowers 4-5 merous; petals very small, stamens 8-10 in 2 rows. Style protruding; ovary 1 -celled, ovules several. Fruit 4-winged, i-cclled, 1 -seeded, indchiscent. 
Leaves simple, entire, opposite, verticellate or alternate, exceedingly variable on one tree and at different stages of growth. '1 rees, shrubs, or climbers, widely 
distributed, and forming a large proportion of the ligneous flora in some parts of this Province. 
C. constrictum, Laws. ( = Poivrea mossambicensis, Klotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 78, t. 13.) Climbing shrub with 5-merous flowers, obovate elliptical pointed 
leaves 6-10 c.m. long, almost glabrous, dotted white, above petiole bases remaining hardened as spines; flowers large, in racemes mostly terminal; petals fiinged. 
Mozambique. Dr. Peters. 
C. pentagonum, Laws. “Tree. Young branches round, hairy. Leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, oval or obovate, 5 8 in. long, 3 3J in. broad, glabrous above, hairy 
beneath. Flowers? .... Fruit roundly-oblong, i£ in. long, 1 in. thick, with 5 rounded angles. Rovuma River, Dr. Meller.” 
Another climbing shrub with bright red secund flowers, possibly the West African C. grandiflorum, Don, or a new species, is abundant in the Umbelusi 
Valley, Lourenzo Marques, covering trees with its vigorous climbing growth, and making a bright display in early Spring. 
