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Forest Flora of Portuguese East Africa. 
or partly united with it, segments free, 10-12, lanceolate, 12-15 m.m. long, firmly leathery, green. Petals as many as the sepals, 2-fid, with a terminal hair between, 
and with 2 hairs to each point, glabrous-brown in front, hairy on back, and each enclosing 2 stamens. Ovary partly free, with a subulate style, and 3-4 fid stigma. 
Fruit 1 -celled, 1 -seeded, the seed germinating on the plant. Abundant in all tidal mud in the Province, often well inland; extends also to Natal and Cape Colony. 
Described under the name B. cylindrica, Blum, in “ Flora of Tropical Africa,” but I cannot separate two forms. 
Plate LXX. i, Fruiting branch, showing leaves and stipule ; 2, Calyx ; 3, Petal, x 3 ; 4, Section of flower ; 5, Petal and stamens, x 2 ; 6, Style and stigma, x 4 ; 7, Anther, x 4 j 8, Tree, general 
aspect (reduced). 
134. CERIOPS. One African species, as under : — 
C. Candolliana, Arn. Fern. names 4, Chitwabane (which corresponds closely with the name of Rhizophora) ; ro, Mucandara ; Nkandella. Shrub or tree 1-7 metres 
high, usually much branched, and confined to tidal mud. Branches somewhat angled, leaves opposite, entire, obovate, rounded at the apex, 2-5 c.m. wide, 7-8 c.m. 
long including the 2 c.m. petiole. Inflorescence axillary, peduncle 3-4 c.m. long, 5-10 flowered; flowers almost sessile, 1 c.m. long, mostly in pairs, bracted. Calyx 
cup-shaped, with 5 oblong-lanceolate segments ; petals 5, oblong, 3-fid at apex and connected near the base by hairs from a gland each side of each. Stamens 10, 
of 2 lengths, the longer as long as the petals and pistil. Ovary conical and pointed, surrounded at the base by a ring of 2-fid glands, i-celled, and having 5 pendent 
ovules, of which only 1 fertilizes. The seed germinates within the fruit on the tree, producing a green somewhat flattened and warted radicle 15-30 inches long, 
6-12 m.m. wide, at the upper end of which the plumule grows inside a scarlet tube 12-25 m.m. long, produced from the fruit as the radicle grows. Frequent in 
tidal mud from Delagoa Bay northward. 
Plate LXVI. i, Flowering branch, with 1 fruit ; 2, Flower, x 5 ; 3, Flower, with calyx and corolla removed, x 8 ; 4, Same, with stamens also removed ; 5, Petal, x 10 ; 6, Stamen, x 30 ; 7, Section 
of ovary, x 5 ; 8, Section of ovary, transverse ; 9, Section of ovary, after fertilization ; 10, Fruit, with radicle growing out ; 11, Top of radicle, showing plumule starting inside scarlet tube. 
1 35- WEI HE A. Glabrous trees with opposite simple leaves, opposite twigs, and axillary flowers, the pedicels rising from a 2-bracted base. Calyx-tube adhering more or less 
to the base of the ovary, its limb 4-5 parted. Petals fugaceous, lacerated at the apex. Stamens about 20, inserted in 1 row. Ovary not quite free, 3-celled ; 
ovules 2 in each cell, pendulous. Berry 3-celled, 3-seeded ; seeds albuminous. A small order belonging to Africa and its islands and to New Zealand. 
W. madagascariensis, Spreng. A small tree 5-7 metres high, with twigs very regularly opposite, usually blackish. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, evergreen, finally thinly 
coriaceous, 8-15 c.m. long, 3-4 c.m. wide, varying from almost entire and rather blunt to strongly-toothed and acute. Pedicels 1 or several, rising from a bracted 
cup in the axils of the younger leaves, 2 c.m. long, 1 -flowered, but jointed near the top. Calyx outwardly pubescent ; limb 5-parted. Petals very fugaceous, 1 c.m. 
long, cuneate, divided into 812 linear divisions at the point. Pistil as long as the calyx-lobes, 3-lobed at the apex. Ovary hairy, 3-celled; berry less hairy, 3- 
seeded. Stipules small, intrapetiolar, caducous. For illustration see “Forest Flora of Cape Colony,” page 224, Plate LXX. Occurs occasionally but nowhere in 
abundance, throughout the Province ; also in Cape Colony, Natal and Madagascar. Not confined to the coast. 
W. (?) subpeltata. (New species). 1 Fern, names — 4, Umbitzan ; 11, Mocurusse ; 15, Bekungu. A large tree, up to 30 metres in height and 90 c.m. diameter of 
stem, gregarious, and making a dense pure forest. Leaves opposite, entire, 5-7 c.m. long, 4-6 c.m. wide, ovate, rounded at the apex, widely rounded at the base, 
and connected with the petiole 4-7 m.m. inside the lamina, from whence rises the midrib as well as 4 other veins not more prominent than the irregularly-disposed 
veins leaving the midrib further up. Leaves glabrous above, at first densely woolly below, afterwards glabrescent, petioles 1-2 c m. long, slender, woolly, especially at 
the base. Stipules interpetiolar, flat, connate, 2-5-3 c -m. long, 7-10 m.m. wide, rounded at the apex, pubescent at first, striated longitudinally and with thickened 
connate margins ; early deciduous. Flowers and fruit unknown. Bark grey, fissured both ways, red under the cortex, thin. Sent from Mozambique in connection 
with an application by the Railway Department as to its suitability for sleepers ; also collected by me in dense pure thickets in kloofs on the Lebombo Mountains 
(extra-tropical) where its timber is well known, but not seen elsewhere. In the absence of flowers and fruit the genus of this tree cannot be definitely decided, but 
the stipules afford a strong key to the Family. No trace of flowers or fruit was found in the Lebombos, where however I was informed separately by all my 
informants, English, Dutch, Kafir and Swazi, and unknown to one another, that bees nesting in this tree made poisonous honey. Whether this was caused by 
1 Wciliea (?) subpeltata. (Sp. nov.) Arbor grandis, gregariu, 30 m. altn, caule 90 c.m. dinm. ; cortice lenui in longitudinem et in transversum diffisso, cano, intus rubro ; foliis oppositis, integris, 
ovatis, apice basique rotundatis, 5 7 c.m. longis, 4-6 c.m. latis, petiolo 12 c.m. longo, lamina subpeltata pagina superiorc glabra, pagina inferiore primo dense lanosa, postremo glabrescente ; stipulis cito 
deciduis inter petiolos connatis, obtusis, planis, 2-5-3 c.m. longis, 7-10 m.m. latis, primo pubcscentibus, in longitudinem slriatis, marginibus crassis ; floribus et fructibus haud visis. Mozambique et mont. 
Lebombo. Sim 6387. Tab. LX I. A. 
