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E. sphaerophyllum, Presl. Vern. name — 415, Inkonguluti. A small tree, closely allied to E. jethiopicum, from which it difTers in having wider, more coriaceous, 
crenate serrulate leaves glabrous on both sides, and larger, globose, red, more or less edible fruit. Lebombo Range, not common, and not of economic importance 
as usually small. 
Another species with axillary 5-10 flowered corymbs, 5-merous large flowers 2 c.m. across, oblong fruits 3-4 c.m. long, and obovate, firmly coriaceous, shortly 
pedunculate, glabrous leaves 6-7 c.m. long, 4-5 c.m. wide was found as a small tree among the coast scrub at Bartholemew Dias, and is apparently an unnamed 
species. 
80. HIPPOCRATEA. Flowers small, hermaphrodite, in axillary cymes. Sepals 5 ; petals 5 ; stamens 3 ; anthers extrorse; ovary surrounded by or raised upon a disc, 
3-celled ; ovules 2 or more in each cell 2-seriate. Fruit carpels 3, distinct, flat, dehiscing along the median line. Seed compressed, on top of a wing. 1 rees or 
climbing shrubs with opposite leaves. 
H. indica, YVilld. A glabrous climber with elliptical, finely serrulate or nearly entire, petiolate leaves 5-8 c.m. long, 2-5 c.m. wide. Mowers very numerous, small. 
Ovules 2 in each cell. Carpels oblong 3-4 c.m. long, 1*5 c.m. wide. Rovuma River, West Africa, India, &c. 
H. Kirkii, Oliv. Young parts pubescent. Leaves elliptical, obscurely serrulate, 2-3 c.m. long, 1-2 c.m. wide. Cymes short, pubescent. Ovules 2 in each cell ; carpels 
obovate oblong. Zambesi. 
H. longipetiolata, Oliv. Glabrous. Leaves widely lanceolate, serrulate, 3-7 c.m. long, 1-3 c m. wide, with petiole 12 c m. long. Carpels obovate, 5-6 c.m. long, 2-3 
c.m. wide, with several ovules in each cell. Zambesi. 
H. delagoensis. (New species.) 1 Vern. name—, 4, Umboti. A glabrous sub-scandent shrub having branches opposite, divaricate, leaves opposite, 2-3 c.m. long, very 
variable from obovate to lanceolate, with several teeth, and there are also among them specimens with entire elliptical leaves 4-5 c.m. long. Carpels 3, divaricate, 
flat, obovate, coriaceous, splitting down the middle, and with 4 seeds in each. Seeds brown, 1 c.m. long on top of a winged petiole 2 5 c.m. long, 1 c.m. wide. 
Common in the neighbourhood of Delagoa Bay, present also at M’Chopes and Inhambane. Sim 6390. 
Plate XXX. B. 
81. SALACIA. Flowers hermaphrodite. Sepals 5 ; petals 5 ; stamens 3 ; ovary 3-celled ; ovules 2 or more in each cell. Fruit baccate, undivided, 1-3 celled, 1 or several 
seeded. Trees or shrubs with glabrous opposite or sub-opposite, nearly entire leaves, and small flowers in axillary fascicles. 
S. pyriformis. A glabrous shrub or small tree with oblong-elliptical, entire, coriaceous, shortly petiolate leaves 8-20 c.m. long, 4-12 c.m. wide. Fascicles sessile ; fruit 
pear-shaped, obtusely 3-sided. Zambesi. 
CALYCIFLORiE. Group l. Section 2. 
Flowers usually unisexual or polygamous, ovary i-celled, ovules solitary, pendulous. 
FAMILY XXVI.— ANACARDIACEiE. 
Trees or shrubs, with alternate exstipulate simple or compound leaves, axillary or terminal paniculate or racemose inflorescence ; hermaphrodite, polygamous or dioecious 
small flowers having a cushioned annular disc, under the edge of which the stamens are inserted. Calyx-segments and petals 4-6 ; stamens as many or twice as many or more (1 
only in Mangifera). Ovary free, i-celled or 2-5 celled, cells with 1 pendulous ovule each, styles 1-3, short ; drupe dry or fleshy, indehiscent, and sometimes having a large woo y 
stone. Seeds exalbuminous. Juice usually acrid, sometimes poisonous. The bark of various Rhus species is used in tanning, and varnishes are obtained from this and other 
genera. The Mango and Kaffir Plum are edible fruits, the Cashew-nut and Pistacio-nut are products ; Rhus cotinus yields a dye-wood, and several kinds yield useful timbers. 
82. RHUS. Shrubs or trees, having alternate simple or 3-foliate leaves (in local species), and axillary or terminal panicles of numerous small or minute, greenish, usually 
polygamous flowers. Calyx-segments and petals usually 5 ; stamens usually 5, inserted round the disc, those of the male flower abortive. Ovary sessile, 1 -celled, 
Hippocratea delagoensis. (Sp. nov.) Frutex glabra, subscandens ; ramis oppositis divaricatis; foliis oppositis, plerumque 2-3 c.m. longis, forma maxime varia, obovatis 
vel ellipticis, 4-5 c.m. longis, margine integra. Carpellis 3, divaricatis, compressis, obovatis, coriaceis, quoque fissura media rumpentc, 4-spermo. Scmine usco, I c.m. ongo. r | 
M’Chopes, et Inhambane. Tab. XXX. B. 
