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Forest Flora of Portuguese East Africa^ 
C. spicata, Th«»b. Lives' p^tl ofVte^he^ d? S it'ately 4 |-9 leaved the leaflets exceed- 
from the ba e or |ancco]ate and t00thed , but more fluently with foliaceous winged toothed petioles 7-. 5 c.m. long, the leafy part 3-7 c.m. 
C; MS s/sM c7e S 2 fc*. ^ 
page 230, Plate I.XXIV. 
the top, less dense downward, and absent from the base, scattered with small branched hairs ; Moramballa. 100-3000 It. alt. Dr. K . 
SERIES III— COROLLIFLORjE. 
Calyx and Corolla usually both present ; petals united into a gamopetalous corolla, either hypogynous or epigynous. Stamens usually springing from the corolla, but 
occasionally hypogynous. 
COROLLIFLORi^E. Group I. Ovary inferior. 
FAMILY XXXVIII.— RUBIACEAi. 
Trees, shrubs, or herbs, with opposite, or Lie, Hate entire, simple, stipulate leave. Inflorescence various SS^igy^ 
inferior, usually a-celled (r celled in Gardenia, more than a-celled m Vanguerta) ; ovules r or more. Calyx-hm 4 ■ ^ alb P minous . A large Family, of 
Stamens inserted in the corolla-tube, alternate with its lobes, and equal in number. Anthers free. Style single * g and j cacuan are among the products of 
which the herbaceous species belong mostly to the temperate reg.ons and the trees to the tropics and * ub ^P“* Q , £ not ^ nf)ted g for timberS) and 
the Family and such garden plants as Gardenia, Ixora, Bouvardia, Rondelet.a, Manettia Burchelha, Pavetta, J*"* deserve mention here from their forestal importance 
the local representatives with the exception of Adina and Gardenia are mostly shrubs rather than trees , as t y y 
they are only mentioned with synoptical descriptions. 
, 44 ADINA. Flowers arranged in pedunculate axillary compact or confluent globular heads, each head on a common 
bursting apart either from below or above, the central placenta remaining in position supporting the remains of the flower, seeds many, small, winged 
Only 1 African species. 
and so like Oleander in foliage as to lead to the common name. Leaves in whorls of 4 , shortly petioled, 5 3 ■ ■ & 5 3 5 neduncle 
with prominent midrib, and numerous side veins. Stipules intra-petiolar, 4 united below, and dehiscing ,n a ring. Head ” ” ° h a Xt tube and 5 
many flowered, congested, the common receptacle hairy, each flower set between 5 club-shaped bracts which are hairy [ 
longer lanceolate segments ; the corolla with a longer tube and 5 short segments. Stamens 5. ."side the corollintube. ^ creeks and gu 1 e 0“ 
club-shaped stigma. First-rate wagon-wood for spokes, beams, fa. j stem sometimes 3 metres diameter m S iwaailand and M ap utaDiv( Extra- 
white granite. Frequent in Magenja da Costa and Nhamacurra (Tropical) ; seen also Umbelusi and in the Lebombo kloofs near Estatuene, Maputa D,v. (Ex r 
tropical). Occurs also in Nile-land Mr. Bum Davy writes (Kew Bulletin No. 4 , .908) :-“The Transvaal material at Kew so named ,s now referred to A. Galpim, 
Oliv.,” of which I have no further information. 
Plate XXXI. i, Fruiting branch ; 2, Flower ; 3, Floral bracts ; 4, One floral bract ; 5, Capsule, opened from below ; 6, Capsule, opened from above. 
