Forest Flora of Portuguese East Africa. 
THALAMIFLORjC. Group II. Section 2. 
Disc various. Ovules 1-2 in each cell, ascending ; flowers often irregular, unisexual or polygamous. 
FAMILY XX.- CHAILLETIACE./E. 
Flowers usually hermaphrodite. Calyx 5-partite ; petals 5, free, clawed, 2-fid. Stamens 5 ; hypogynous glands 5, opposite to the petals. Ovary free, 3-2 celled ; style 
simple, apex shortly 3 2 fid. I- run drupaceous, 1-3 celled, 1-3 seeded. Small trees or shrubs with alternate, entire, petiolate or sub-sessile leaves and deciduous subulate stipules. 
1* lowers small, white, m axillary cymes or glomerules. 
57. CHAILLETIA. Characters as given for the Family. 
C. mossambicensis, Klot/sch (m Peters’ Mossamb. Hot. 108, t. 19), Leaves obovate-elliptical or oblong, cordate at the base, mucronate, with scattered hairs on the 
upper surface and pubescent under surface, 7-15 c.m. long, 4-6 c.m. wide. Cymes pedunculate. Ovary villous, 3-celled. Northern districts. 
C. reflexa, Klotzsch (in Peters’ Mossamb. Rot. 109, t. 20). Shrub, at first tomentose, becoming glabrescent with age. Leaves elliptic-oblong acute, rounded at the base, 
4- c.m. long, 2-3 c.m. wide. Cymes almost sessile. Ovary 2-celled. Fruit oblique, pubescent, i-celled, i-seeded. Northern districts. 
FAMILY XXL— OLACINEAi. 
. J l0WC ? regU . , * r ' , Caly ? 4 ' 5 loh X d ; pe f tals 5> m0rc 0r leSS connate at the base or free ; stamens 5, alternate to the petals and more or less adnate to their tube Disc 
indehtcem ^ T 7 T’ V? ^ geminat * 0VuleS ’ 0r s P urious, y 3-5 celled, with 1 ovule in each cell. Fruit i-celled, i-seeded, dry or drupaceous 
indehiscent. Seeds albuminous. Trees or shrubs with alternate, entire, exstipulate leaves and small flowers. drupaceous, 
58. XIMENIA. Calyx free, unchanged in fruit. Petals 4, free, hairy within, valvate in aestivation. Stamens 8-.0, free, hypogynous. Drupe fleshy, with a bony i-seeded nut. 
X ' Ca !tos^i e n E ^lZuTta T e 0 m w' 7^7 T" ' Vi ' h , t0ment ° Se divaricate branches - and “““7 branchlets endi "« in Leave, elliptical, 
I> 3 b® If . 6; P l d “ CleS axlllary ’ I ' flowered i P elals rer y hair y inside; fruit oval, glabrous, 1-2 c.m. long, red, edible. Abundant on the 
Lebombo range, and not uncommon through Lourenzo Marques district. 
X. amencana, Linn. Vera, name— 4-15, Kolotchan. A glabrous shrub with short spinose axillary branchlets. Leaves oval-oblong, obtuse 2 -< cm lone 22 cm 
o^opicdlftLa" CymeS ' PCttUS it inSide; frUil 2 ' 3 C - m - i0ng ' Scarlet ' edible - throughout the Province', as also in other parts 
* 0LAX 0vary free ’ 3 - cdied ** or 
°- “Ze — - - — > — - — - - 
60 ' OPILI triac:ot,l,tX 8 emim. ; S ‘ a "’ enS ^ Pe ‘ a ' S “ d ^ *° * h ™ ; « -vuled ; racemes a, first catkins; fruit drupaceous. Leaves 
°- r lan r h, r some ' vl m cuneate ' en,ire ' •«« * .o„ g> 
probable second species is mentioned in •• Flora of Tropical Africa." qUeS ’ and found ° ccasionall >' throughout the Province. A 
61 APODI Jfri,tova C r a yt £ “ i “ 7^7X7 ^*7 Tfl T ^ ^ ^ ^ ** » *>“ ^ 
pressed, very oblique, and with a callous heel resembling an abortive second cell. W XmL “ ^ CMS ‘’ ' ea ‘ hery in ' and ’ h ° riz0ntaIly “W »m- 
