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Synoptical and Specific Descriptions. 
contact with the timber or by the source of supply no one knew, but it is the only tree, so far as I know, which has such a reputation. I saw no outwardly damaged 
tree, though I saw all ages, fine, clean, straight stems in every case ; but I was informed that the very large trees are usually hollow. Sim 6387. 
I’latk LX I. A. 
136. CASSIPOUREA. Glabrous trees with opposite or verticillate entire leathery leaves, caducous intrapetiolar stipules, axillary inflorescence, superior 3 4 celled ovary with 
filiform style and 2 pendulous ovules in each cell. Calyx campanulate, shortly 5-7 lobed ; petals 5-7, small, fimbriate at the apex, and inserted on a crenulate disc 
at the base of the calyx-tube ; stamens 10-14, with filiform filaments, united below. Ovary 2-celled, cells 2-ovuled. Fruit ovoid, ultimately dehiscent; cells i- 
seeded ; seeds arillate ; albumen fleshy. A small genus into which Dactylopetalum might be merged. 
C. verticillata, N. E. Brown. A small evergreen tree, with temate and opposite (or sometimes 4-nate) oblong coriaceous entire or almost entire leaves, 10 c.m. long, 4-5 
c.m. wide, axillary flowers, many crowded together, and dehiscent fruits 1 c.m. long, resembling those of Gymnosporia, and with similar yellow arillate seeds, rather 
conspicuous on the tree for a time. Present but not common through Maputa, Marracucne, Gaza and M’Chopes. For illustration sec “ Natal Plants," Plate 276. 
FAMILY XXXIII.— MYRTACEzE. 
Trees or shrubs with simple, entire, leathery exstipulate leaves, often with pellucid dots ; paniculate or axillary inflorescence, hermaphrodite flowers ; inferior ovary ; 
sepals and petals 4-5 ; stamens numerous, free ; ovary 2-3 celled ; ovules few or many in each cell, from or near the base, style simple, filiform ; Iruit a berry or a dry dehiscent 
capsule. Seeds few, exalbuminous. A large Family, well known by such representatives as the Australian Eucalypts (Gum-trees), the Guava, Rose-apple, Jambolan, Brazilian 
Cherry, Cloves, Allspice, Myrtles, Australian Myrtles, Pomegranates and Bottle-brushes. I am not aware that the Clove (Caryophyllus) comes within the limits of the Province, 
though it occurs on the coast and islands further north. 
137. EUGENIA. Calyx-tube short, flat, and disc-like or cup-shaped, limb 4-5 P^ed ; petals 4-5. inserted with the numerous stamens on the edge of the calyx-tube. Ovary 
inferior, 2-celled. Fruit a fleshy berry, crowned by the calyx-lobes, usually 1 -seeded. Seed, round, hard, stone like. Irees or shrubs with pellucid dotted, simple, 
entire, glabrous, shining, opposite leaves, and terminal paniculate or axillary inflorescence. Principally a Central and South American genus. 
E cordata, Laws. Vcrn. names— 1, Water-tree; 2, Water-boom; 4, 15, Mucho, Muhlu, or Munchlo ; 13, Umswi and Umdoni ; 15, Mkosc. A medium sized, round- 
topped glaucous tree, with opposite, nearly sessile, widely eliptical, bluntly pointed and somewhat cordate, entire, glabrous, coriaceous, sub glaucous leaves 5 .0 c.m. 
long, 2-5 c.m. wide, and paler on the under than the upper surface. Panicle terminal, cymose, many-flowered, with angular glabrous branches, tnchotomously 
forked all forks and flowers subtended by linear deciduous bracts, or the lower by leaves. Calyx-tube cup-shaped, with blunt shallow lobes. Petals united into a 
calyplra and breaking off at the base. Stamens numerous, at first inflexed, afterwards spreading, the numerous anthers forming the showy white part of the (lower. 
Pistil cylindrical, as long as the stamens. Berry 12 m.m. long, oblong, acidulous, more or less edible, usually 1 -seeded. All the younger wood quadrangular. Stein 
up to 60 c.m. diameter ; usually grows near water ; seldom found in dense forest, but often where grass fires clear off all other kinds. Frequent in the extra tropica 
parts of the Province, almost the only tree in the M’Chopes pans, and present also though less frequent in the tropical districts. Abundant in Cape Colony and 
Natal and in writing of “Plant association at the Victoria Falls,” Miss Gibbs arranges the local flora there in 3 groups, the first of which is the open veld, and 
concerning the others she says:— “The second region seems to be limited to the immediate banks of the Zambesi Rivet and islands abov< the Falls in 
which the dominant plant is Eugenia guineensis. The third would include the bog edge of Livingstone Island and that ol the opposite Ram forest, with the famous 
Rain Forest proper, and Knife Edge, where Eugenia cordata predominates.”- To make its timber durable, water-seasoning is necessary. For illustration see 
“ Forest Flora of Cape Colony,” p. 226, Plate LXXI. fig. 3. 
E. guineensis ( = Syzygium guineense, Guill & Perr, FI. Seneg. I. 315, t. 72). Vcrn. name*- 6, Kurre or Mkurre ; .0, Muti kurru or Mokosa ; ... Morimonico. A 
large glabrous glaucous tree, 10-15 metres high and up to 1 metre diameter. Leaves ovate-acuminate, pctiolate, not cordate, usually tapering to the petiole. 
Panicle 15-25 c.m. across, many-flowered, terminal. More common than E. cordata in the tropical districts and often found ms.de the forest near streams ; in the 
extra-tropical districts it is present but less common. The general habit is similar to E. cordata, but the leaf-form is different. - E. owaricnsis, P. Bcauv. 
- Linn. Soc. Jour. Botany, XXXVII., Nov. 1906. 
