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Forest Flora of Portuguese East Africa. 
70. BERSAMA. Racemes axillary or terminal on short side branches. Flowers apparently hermaphrodite. Sepals 5, nearly equal, the lower pair connate, imbricate. 
Petals 5, unequal, irregular in form. Disc raised, unilateral ; stamens 4-5, centrical, inserted within the disc, more or less connate. Ovary 4-5 celled, ovule 
solitary (?) erect. Capsule ligneous, globose, 3-5 celled, tubercled externally, dehiscence loculicidal ; seeds arillate, albuminous. Trees or shrubs with alternate, 
imparipinnate leaves, mostly deciduous. * 
Several of the deciduous, pinnate leaved trees seen without leaf, flower or fruit, probably belong to this African genus. The following evergreen tree is 
included in it with great hesitation : — 
Bersama (?) mossambicensis. (New species.) 1 Vern. names- 5, Tsukuhlumumbu ; 6, Maritshima ; 4 and 6, Morentima or Shimorentima (these names shared with 
Blighia). Leaves pinnate, exstipulate, the pinnules sub opposite or alternate, elliptical or oblong-elliptical, pointed, usually oblique and tapering shortly at the base. 
Inflorescence axillary to the upper leaves, about 3-fiowered on a 1-2 c.m. peduncle; flowers almost sessile, 3 m.m. long, bracted; calyx with 5 triangular teeth ; 
peta s 5, 1m jricate , stamens 10-12, outside a flat ring-disc, the filaments free and apparently equal (though no fully mature flowers were available for examination) • 
anthers hairy ; ovary pubescent, 4-5 celled, with almost sessile stigma. Fruit woody, tubercled outside, dehiscent, 4-5 celled, each cell containing 2 black seeds 
pun 11 ous rom a red aril rising from the base. I hesitate to make a new genus of this tree, but it does not appear to me to fit any described genus well. It has 
much resemblance to Pnchiha, from which the free stamens and 4-5 celled ovary distinguish it ; from normal Bersama the 2-ovulled cells and the more numerous 
stamens differ. Frequent throughout the Province, often as a shrub but sometimes as a very large tree. Sim 5204. 
Plate XXIII. 
SERIES II.-CALYCIFLORyE. 
Ovules formed in closed ovaries. Calyx and corolla usually both present, 
springing from the calyx-tube, either perigynous or epigynous. 
Calyx-tube either free from, or adnate to, the ovary. 
Petals free; petals and stamens 
CALYCI FLORAE. Group I. 
Thalamiflo^rr 5 haVi " S * ra0 ' e " reCePlaC ' e ^ ‘° Ca ' yX - ,ube ' tbe petaIs a " d s,amens risi "S from its ° f inside it. (See Commiphora, included in 
CALYCIFLOR>E. Group I. Section i. 
isomerous. 
— ~ x . 
Flowers usually hermaphrodite ; ovary 2 or more-celled ; ovules 1-2 in each cell ; leaves simple (except Vitis). Stamens 
FAMILY XXIII.— AMPELIDE2E. 
cohere, deridtus^ a ppare n,1 y perfect. Calyx cup-shaped, entire or lobed. Petals 4-5, free except their points, which usually 
disc which surrounds the ovary. Ovary oLd, pointed, ,cel£d , ^ ^ 
71 ' VITa dS,:rSv:^r 4 r ““ ° r li8 " e0US ' tindrils “-^"yp-ent. About 8 C tropical African species are 
_i„ —picaldis^^^^^ 
